That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD and Ship Salvage is about my son’s ADHD seen through the lens of my Dad’s ship salvage career. It’s peppered with stories and insights from interviews with parents whose kids have ADHD and from individuals who have ADHD themselves. Episode Two is about a gaggle of tourists, a special sandwich, and the ill-informed opinions of men on a beach. The ship talked about in this episode is the Eldia.
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The photo above shows the hull of the Eldia embedded in the sand at Nauset Beach on Cape Cod. The man in the red hat and red jacket wearing gloves and khaki pants in my father, Alex Rynecki. It might be a beach, but the Eldia ran aground in a storm and the weather on the Cape was cold in April.
The postcard my Dad sent me and my mom from Cape Cod. On the back he wrote, “the big magnet remains on the beach.”
The Wikipedia entry about the Eldia
Grounded Ship is a Boon to Cape Cod Town. New York Times. April 15, 1984.
An illustrated account of the grounding and subsequent re-floating of the Maltese freighter Eldia between March 29 and May 17, 1984. by William P Quinn (Author)
WBZ-TV’s 1984 report from Shelby Scott about the tourists flocking to the site of the Eldia.
A video retrospective by CapeCast of the ship grounding on Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach.
Salvage of the Eldia, a video by William P. Quinn