That Sinking Feeling
by Elizabeth Rynecki and Tony Kaplan
Latest episode
Episode 7: Field Trips and Sunken Ships
Episode 7: Field Trips and Sunken Ships
About this podcast
Adventures in ADHD and ship salvage. A multi-generational story about a son’s ADHD, a grandfather’s ship salvage career, and a mother’s struggle to understand the challenges of each. Every episode contains one ship salvage job and explores the life lessons gleaned from those tales. The salvage jobs, as improbable as it may seem, became metaphors for understanding her son’s ADHD. Host Elizabeth Rynecki delves into this unlikely intersection over 6 episodes, talking to her son, her father and people whose lives have been touched by ADHD.
Episodes
- Episode 7: Field Trips and Sunken Ships · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 7Episode 7 of That Sinking Feeling tells the story of a nuclear submarine that sank just north of San Francisco, and the ramifications of a son purposefully peeing on the floor of…
- Episode 6: Hopes and Fears · 25 min · Episode 6The Kungsholm was a passenger ship that went aground in the Caribbean. My Dad salvaged her while more than 450 guests stayed aboard. In this episode we talk about the way every…
- Episode 5: My Mother Loved Me on Ritalin · 26 min · Episode 5The Betty L was a 420-foot barge built especially for a sewer project for the City of San Francisco’s Clean Water Project. Only a week after going into service she was grounded…
- Episode 4: Drop The Rope · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 4The Igara was an Italian ore ship that partially sank in the South China Sea. Her bow sunk below the waves while her stern section remained entirely visible. My Dad used…
- Episode 3: 2,000 Gallons of Acid, and a Submarine Full of Pancake Batter · 20 min · Episode 7The H-3 was a submarine that ran aground in heavy fog along the Northern Coast of California in 1916. It’s not a ship my Dad salvaged, but it’s one of his favorite stories for…
- Episode 2: Shame · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 2The Eldia, a Maltese freighter that went aground on Cape Cod, generating massive interest from the community which flocked to the beach to see the ship. This episode explores the…
- Episode 1: Fiery Wreck · 36 h 27 min · Season 1 Episode 1The Sea Witch, departing from Staten Island, crashed into an oil tanker and exploded. Later she was towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. And then fell over in drydock. Host Elizabeth…
- Introducing: That Sinking Feeling · 1 minThis six-episode series is about the unlikely intersection of ADHD and marine salvage. https://www.elizabethrynecki.com/that-sinking-feeling/
