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Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. I've got a couple more things to tell you about this mystery in the Bahamas. I keep calling it in my head Paradise Lost because when I was there, Lindsay and I spent five days, uh, like I would say pounding the pavement, except that it was this beautiful aquamarine, you know, Hellenic environment in the Bahamas. Um, and it was so lovely and so pretty. We were kind of bummed we were working, 'cause everyone was having such a good time and enjoying themselves and so laid-back and so kind that it was hard to believe that this terrible, shall we say, incident, because at this point we can't say murder. Uh, Brian Hooker swears up and down that his wife just bounced off the back of the dinghy, just, you know, whoops. And says the waves were so rough. It was two to four foot seas and the wind was howling. And we've discovered that's not true. And now we've discovered something else tonight. And it is big. It's really big. It's one of those things like Brian Coburger, you know, left DNA on the knife sheath, big? Or took his own car to a murder scene, big? Right? I think we all kind of get it in this day and age that your digital trail will usually trip you up. Um, and I think that may end up happening in this case. I'm just going to say I don't believe Brian Hooker's story. I haven't met anybody who does. I really, the more I talk to people, and I'm still every single day talking to over a dozen people, uh, daily in the Bahamas. And every single one of them, guys, lying. Nothing adds up. Story doesn't add up. Wind doesn't add up. None of it. And tonight I'm going to show you why the story of the watches doesn't add up. I'm going to tell you about Lynette's watch because that's a big clue. And Brian's watch. That's another clue. I've got a couple other things to tell you about. Remember that paddle that Brian says he lost? He calls them oars, right? He's got two oars. They've got pins on them like regular oars would have, but there's no pin sockets on the dinghy. So, I don't know. I think they just used them as paddles, but he told everybody who would listen, "I lost one of those that terrible night that Lynette bounced off the back of the dinghy and I got separated in the current and the wind and she was getting farther and farther and the two to four foot waves. I couldn't see her head and it was getting dark. It was like close to 8:00 at night and she had the keys in the dry bag. She happened to just grab the dry bag on the way out and the lanyard that had the electric key to the engine." Oh, here I go. Yeah, none of that adds up.
However, what's really fascinating is he says he lost his paddle. Well, now I know where that paddle may have washed up. May have washed up. Up until now, it's been like, "Where's this mystery paddle?" See, Abaco isn't that big. I mean, it kind of looks big, but it's just like a giant swimming pool and you can see the bottom everywhere, right? It's really, really shallow. Like six, eight, nine feet, and then at its deepest at high tide, maybe fifteen. But you can see everything and everything would wash up on the shores, right? But the paddle has been missing until discovered, maybe where it ended up. Today I'm going to tell you all about that in a minute. Also, uh, I'm going to get you up to speed on something a lot of you have been talking about. You know that floaty that Jim swears he, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a swim floaty. They used it as kind of seat cushions on the side of the dinghy, like on the, on the hull, the gunnel of the dinghy. Um, but he says, "I tossed it to her and I don't know if she got it or not and it floated away and it ended up on shore where Brian ended up on shore." A lot of you have been asking, you're a little bit confused about where that, that floaty ended up in comparison to the dinghy. I've got all of that for you. Maps, charts, and everything, and all from the rescuers. You're even going to see the rescuer who found it. He videotaped himself going to it and picking it up. So, you're going to see that in a minute. And then there's something else you probably saw in the last episode. Last couple episodes, we've had some pretty good exclusive pictures. But one of the exclusive pictures we got was a picture of Lynette, taking a selfie at the pool, you know, just like, not even an hour and a half or two before she disappeared forever. At least disappeared until now. Um, and that picture, well, there were so many things you're going to learn about in that picture, but I probably should have made a bigger deal yesterday about the fact that Lynette's wearing a bright blue headscarf in this picture. She's enjoying the sun and the wind on the Atlantic side. And by the way, the picture shows how rough it is over on the Atlantic side of Elbow Cay. Yeah. But on the other side, great. Like that's the east shore that you're seeing. On the western shore, it's calm and lovely. It's why everybody anchors their boats there because it's safe. And the lee side of the island has no wind. And that's the story of Brian's night, 'cause everyone we've talked to and all the evidence we've seen, and something you're going to see a little later in this episode shows there were no two to four foot seas. And the wind pattern that Brian swears was happening wasn't. No, it wouldn't. So, Lynette is taking this picture and she's got this bright blue headscarf. She's also got her green bathing suit cover-up and what looks like a black fanny pack. And it's kind of weird, but it looks like she's got a black fanny pack that she's wearing, but it also looks like there's something black that's on the sun chair in front of her. So, the deal with that is when Brian was pressed by the fire and rescue, um, volunteers that busted their asses to help find Lynette the next morning, right? Um, they kept asking him over and over, "Well, what was she wearing? What are we looking for? What are we looking? What was the last thing she was wearing? What was she wearing when you last saw her?" And all Brian said was a two-piece black bathing suit. Now, I've come to learn it's not a bikini. It's actually like a two-piece that covers your tummy. It might have like a fabric that falls over the, the midriff maybe, but it's a two-piece black bathing suit. And that is it. That's all Brian would say. And they pressed him. I talked to them. I talked to the fire, two of them. I talked to both fire and rescue guys who were really on lead and on point. And all they would say is that she was, he said, all they would say is that he said she was wearing a two-piece black bathing suit. Well, bro, we saw the picture. Why didn't you mention the green cover-up? Why didn't you mention the bright blue headscarf? That sort of stands out. How about the black fanny pack or whatever that black thing was on the sun chair in front of her while she's taking a selfie? 'Cause if my husband went missing like that, I would be saying, "Let me think. Let me think. I, I know he had a, uh, oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. He had a bandana. He was wearing a bandana and, uh, the swim shorts were, you know, patterned." You'd be combing every inch of your mind to think of details of what your loved one was wearing when she went overboard. Brian didn't seem to remember she was wearing a bright blue headscarf. It was bright blue, one small. And that stands out 'cause not everybody wears a headscarf like that. Brian didn't mention she had that black fanny pack thing or whatever that black thing was on the sun chair in front of her. I think she's also wearing sunglasses. Didn't mention that. That is huge. The green cover-up, dude. Come on. He didn't mention any of that. Those are huge details that this so-called grieving spouse just, I don't know. Black, black bathing suit. I don't know. Maybe two-piece. I smell a rat. Sorry, Brian. But if you get arrested again, well, if you get arrested and charged, you weren't charged the first time. If you do, and I, I just have a sneaking suspicion you will be, you're going to have to answer to all of this. You're going to have to answer to why a grieving spouse wouldn't give a [ __ ] about what his wife was wearing when you last saw her in this tragedy. It's a big deal for me. It's been a big deal for others, too. Friends of Lynette's have been apoplectic about this. I've been talking to Blaine Stevenson a lot. He and his wife Marne are also sailors and they're just, they're literally sun up to sun down trying to put the pieces together on this, on this case. And that really pissed them off. You didn't even tell the rescuers about everything. The scarf, the cover-up, the black thing. Like, what the hell? I can see why they're mad. I'm mad. I didn't know Lynette and I'm mad.
Okay, let's talk about her Apple Watch. Early in this story, we told you, uh, that the Royal Bahamian Police got Lynette's Apple Watch. Originally, there was a story that broke that it might have been on a beach. That was dispelled. It was not. They got it off Soulmate, their 46-foot yacht, the sailboat that they've been living on for the last four years. The Royal Bahamians got it off the sailboat. Little pink Apple Watch. So, that is a huge detail now because of the photo that we uncovered. That photo, that exclusive photo that, yes, Drop Dead Serious, we got that. That exclusive photo shows what sure as hell looks like a powder pink Apple Watch and band on Lynette's hand, on her wrist. Just take a look. That's not a tan line. That pretty much looks like an Apple Watch on her wrist right there. I don't know anybody with tan lines that huge and that significant that could be caught in a photo like that. That looks like the Apple Watch. So, my friends, work with me here. If you are at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay up until at least 7:00, 'cause that's the last photo we have of Brian heading down towards the dock by himself without her. So, we know at least they're there at 7 p.m. If you are getting in the dinghy and you're heading back to your keelboat that is anchored only about 12 minutes away, dinghy ride, around the corner, off to the left, south down Elbow Cay towards Tahiti Beach. It's beautiful. How did your Apple Watch that's on your wrist late in the afternoon, how did that get onto the sailboat? Because you never made it to the sailboat. Lynette never made it to the sailboat. This much Brian tells us, right? She bounced off the back on the way to the sailboat. The seas were, the seas were rough, my friend. What does George Costanza say? Yeah, the seas were two to four feet. She bounced off the back. She never, we never, we never made it to the sailboat. She had the keys and I floated for nine hours. [ __ ] I floated for nine hours across the Sea of Abaco and ended up on the shores of Marsh Harbour. Okay, so neither of you made it back to the sailboat. How did her little pink Apple Watch make it back to the sailboat? Brian, Brian, you've got some explaining to do. 'Cause if she's wearing that Apple Watch and she went overboard, it should still be on her wrist wherever she is. It shouldn't be on board Soulmate for the Royal Bahamian Police to collect. Not only that, but we all know how electronics work, don't we? We all know that your hip bone's connected to your leg bone and your Apple Watch is connected to your Apple phone. Yeah. And I can tell you that Lynette's Apple Watch was connected to her iPhone because her daughter, Carly Alessworth, tells me she constantly did "Find My Phone" like I do all the time. If I didn't, I would never. Lynette did that all the time according to her daughter. So the Apple Watch is connected to the iPhone. So if that Apple Watch made it out on board Soulmate and it probably connected to the internet, that's the kind of stuff you can find. That's the kind of stuff the experts call digital exhaust. And if her phone as well made it up onto Soulmate, that's going to connect to the internet, too. They had Starlink. They had Starlink really high up on their mast, too. And I've been told that the way that, uh, would affect things is that you'd actually connect further away. You know, if, if your Starlink is low down, you might come towards the boat and connect, you know, close to the boat. But if it's up high, you'll, you'll connect much farther out because you've got to, I've been told that. I can't attest to that myself. I haven't done the test myself, but others have said that they might have connected to the Starlink sooner. If, if this whole story of Brian is just horseshit and there was nobody going over the side of the boat, maybe that dinghy made it all the way back to Soulmate with Lynette and her watch and her phone and their passports and everything else he says was in that dry bag. Maybe they made it back onto Soulmate and maybe something happened on Soulmate. Maybe because I'll tell you what, with the story that Brian is spinning, uh, you didn't make it to Soulmate, so your devices should not have made it to Soulmate. And if those devices made it to Soulmate, you're [ __ ]. If Lynette's device made it to Soulmate, game over. If Brian's devices made it to Soulmate, game over. If anybody checked an email or you just got on board and you hand-shook with your own, you know, Starlink, game over, 'cause nobody was supposed to be within a thousand feet of Soulmate when Brian's emergency happened. And then he was set adrift a thousand yards away from Soulmate and getting further and further and further to the west until he went up on Marsh Harbour nine hours later in a wind that was like, I know there's been discrepancies on the wind, but more and more we're getting reports that the wind was, it really wasn't, it wasn't two to four foot seas and it wasn't screaming out there. Maybe as you got closer to Marsh Harbour, then the wind would have picked up a little more and would have been busier, but your emergency happened in the lee side of Elbow Cay where it's basically snorkeling weather. So, there's a lot that's not adding up. And that Apple Watch of Lynette's, boy, I sure hope that her Apple Watch that she loved will tell the story.
Let me tell you a little story about her Apple Watch. Um, I guess she loved it so much that the battery was starting to get weak. Mine did once. I had to replace mine. It just wouldn't hold a charge. Um, it almost would die before I'd go to bed. And so with, um, Lynette, that was the case. Her little pink or powder pink Apple Watch was getting too weak and she couldn't even wear it through the night to do like the sleep, you know, the sleep analysis that your watch will do for you. She couldn't do that because her watch wouldn't last. She, she just couldn't hold a charge that long. Um, and this is according to her daughter, who was just there on the boat just a month and a half ago or so, visiting. So, Lynette needed a new watch. And Brian told Carly, Lynette's daughter, that he bought her a new watch, not an Apple Watch, though. He bought her a different kind of watch that is more like, the way I've heard is more like his. And I think you can load Navionics on his. It's more a technical watch, but it didn't fit. Apparently, this watch did not fit. And so, the plan was when Carly was there, "We'll give it to Cari." And Carly was thrilled and planned to take that watch with her because her mom and Brian said, "This watch doesn't fit. It's new. Brian got it for me. Uh, you can have it, sweetheart." And she forgot it on the boat. She forgot it on the charger in the boat. The green watch that Brian bought for Lynette. Where's that watch? What's going on with that watch? Did the Royal Bahamians find that watch? Because it might have been in a drawer somewhere. Might have been somewhere on that boat. Did they get it? Did they collect that evidence? 'Cause that's important. That watch would also be important. And when I mentioned that it's similar to Brian's watch, let's talk a little bit about Brian's watch because there's been a couple things that we've noticed and we've been tracking it. And I haven't brought you the story till now because I've been waiting on some answers and I'm not sure I have all of them, but I'll tell you where I'm at. You see Brian in all of his social media wearing this very light-colored watch, big, chunky, light-colored watch. And from what, uh, Carly tells me, Brian's stepdaughter, Lynette's daughter, that watch was very technical. And from what others have said, it, it's likely that he was able to track his Navionics and load Navionics on that. And you can actually do so much with your watches these days if you're a mariner. I know my ex-husband uses an E-B when he's out on the, uh, Long Island Sound because he goes out a lot alone and if anything ever happens, he can actually like send out a signal with his watch. Um, and then they'll come and rescue him. It'll, it'll actually send out a signal and your exact location will be pinned and rescuers will know to come and get you. So, a lot of people who are boat-savvy, uh, and spend a lot of time on boats will have these very specialized watches like the E-B or like my ex-husband has the E-B or like Brian had this specialized watch. I haven't gotten, I haven't nailed down exactly everything about that watch yet, but if you know, please put in the comments and email us, um, the info because you guys have been amazing. I've already had several emails from people in the Bahamas who know people in the Bahamas, who have cameras in the Bahamas, who've taken pictures, and I am so incredibly thankful that you've done that. And I encourage you to continue sending us anything you might have, images, information about the watch that Brian wears. If you see the image on your screen in a moment, um, send it to dropdeadseriousinfo@gmail.com. Again, dropdeadserious, that's me, info@gmail.com. It's super helpful. Dropdeadseriousinfo@gmail.com. If you send us anything you might have, look at your photos from the Abaco Inn that night from 6:00 p.m. all the way through till 8:00 p.m. See if you caught Lynette and Brian in the background. It's so important to see the timestamps and what they were doing because there's a lot of weird stuff that's coming in. I've got more episodes ahead on that. Um, also, if you don't want to send them to me, I get it. I understand you. I have another place where you can send them. CGIS tips. Okay, that is an app. It is the Coast Guard's app for anonymous tips. It's just go to your app store, look for CGIS tips, and you'll see it right there. It'll say Coast Guard anonymous tips. Boink. And there you can put it there. You can also go to the website, uh, P3, that's the letter P, the number three tips.com. And there's a QR code we have on the screen as well. So, pictures, video, and any information you have about the watch that you see Brian wearing in a lot of these videos. But about that watch, we are told by Carly and many others he never took that watch off. He wore that watch all the time. Like, it was glued. And I don't disbelieve that because there's a curious little picture of Brian after he was arrested without the watch on and a big, big tan line where the watch would have been. And I'm like, "Wait a minute. This is after he was released." Like, "Where's your watch, bro? You never, ever took that watch off." And for a while there, I was playing parlor games with an expert here and we were trying to figure out if he took the watch off when he was handcuffed in the police boat and oops, fell overboard. 'Cause you remember that story, they arrested him on Soulmate and then they put him in the police boat and they drove him, uh, to Grand Bahama Island in Freeport where they have the, the holding facility, the, the detention center for him, then the courthouse. And he fell out and had to be rescued by the police officers. Like, first of all, Bahamian police. What? What? How did you let that happen? You put a handcuffed guy in your boat. He had a flotation device on. Put a handcuffed guy in your boat and you're not kind of like watching him or next to him or making sure that can't happen. It happened. Out he went, his lawyer said, and they had to rescue him. And then he got injured and had to get some treatment for some superficial injuries from on his leg. But I was wondering if, if when he was in the water, he was like, "I don't want my Navionics, you know, I don't want them to have my Navionics and show you everywhere I've actually been." I had to dispel that thought. So, there's this image of him, and I believe he's outside the police, um, lockup, the day after he's released because he's released at 8:00 at night. So, this picture is broad daylight and he's holding his precious light-colored watch. It's sort of lime green, I think. Really, really light lime green. And he's holding it in his hands almost as though he may have gone back to the police station to collect his, you know, personal effects because when you get arrested, usually you're stripped down of all your personal effects, your watch, your earrings, whatever you got, your nose ring, your thing ring, uh, and then you get it when you're released. But at 8:00 at night, uh, this is not video of him holding his watch in the dark. And I know it's 8:00 at night. He was released at 8, and I know it's dark at 8. This is bright daylight. So, my assumption is it might be the next morning, and that would be Tuesday the 14th of April. He's released on Monday the 13th of April at 8 at night. I think this photo may be, uh, Tuesday the 14th and those that day. So, he's holding his watch and there you go. That watch that was off his wrist, suddenly he's got it back on his wrist. So, that's super interesting. And he does these interviews with, um, big major networks. He picks CBS, ABC, and NBC. How cliché. Don't you know all the true crime viewers are watching here? This is where you're going to get the most viewers as in true crime podcasting. Come on, Brian. Get with the times. Anyway, um, he does his interview with some of them and he's got his watch off. I'm just a little fascinated by why the Royal Bahamian Police didn't keep that watch. Like, why didn't you seize that watch as evidence? It, it's a digital trail, y'all. Like, it tells you everything and that could hold so well, could have held so much evidence, but they didn't. The Royal Bahamian Police didn't keep that watch. You can see him holding it in his hands as he's leaving. And by the way, when I say leaving, yeah, that guy couldn't wait. He got his emergency passport and the next day you saw the pictures of him flying the coop, blowing this pup stand. Yeah. He decided that the Bahamas was no longer for him. Even though he said, "I will never leave the Bahamas without my wife, Lynette. I will never stop searching for her. I'm going to try and rent a boat to go and search for her." You didn't. You didn't rent that boat. Certainly not from the number that you were given by the search and rescue fella that you asked, "Where can I rent a boat? Who can I call?" He gave you the number. You never called them. We checked. So that's Brian Hooker. You know, I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here 'cause that's what his lawyers asked us to do. But it's harder and harder and harder because all the stuff he says doesn't match the actual facts. Doesn't match the tide patterns. Doesn't match the wind. Doesn't match the timing. Doesn't match, you name it, doesn't match. The one thing I can say is that if I spent five days in a Bahamian detention cell, I might be a little concerned that they could lock me up again. And if I'm innocent, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a Bahamian prison. So, I can understand why maybe somebody might get on a plane and leave the jurisdiction when the gettin's good. But if my husband were still floating out there, I wouldn't. I mean, I say that, I, I really don't think I would leave him. I don't think I would leave. I know one thing. I'd have rented any boat I could find. I'd have been out there. I'd have asked the search and rescue guys, "Can I just come with you? Pick me up every day." You know, that didn't happen. He's a lot of talk about the dinghy and his SIM card and a lot of that stuff. But he does not ask much about the search. He never asks the search and rescue guy, "Where's the command center? How many boats are out? What's happening? What's being done to help find my wife?" Doesn't ask. See why it's hard to give him the benefit of the doubt? Sorry, lawyer lady. It's just hard. Okay. And also, come on, lawyer lady. He didn't even say what she was wearing to the search and rescue people. So, yeah, benefit of the doubt is a real struggle. It's Everest at this point.
So, let's talk about some other floaties and patterns. A lot of you have talked about the green flotation swimming thing. It's kind of like, it's almost like what you would use as a flutterboard. It's really not a flotation device, but it's kind of spongy and you can sit on it, which is what Brian and Lynette used to do. They'd sit on the gunnels of their, uh, of their, um, dinghy while they were driving. And he says, "I grabbed that green one and I threw it to her." And I don't know if she ever got it. There were two life jackets in the bottom of the dinghy when the fire and rescue saw the dinghy over, you know, marooned on the shore after his long night of floating. Okay, I know the wind wasn't screaming because I've seen it and I've seen the marine patterns. I've heard people who've been in dinghies in that exact place tell me, "No way, no how was that wind so brutal you couldn't throw a life jacket." There were no giant waves. Right? 150 meters offshore in the lee of Elbow Cay. It was not a screaming wind at 7, 7:30, or 8:00 at night on Saturday, April 4th. Witnesses have said it. Videos have said it. A woman I talked to today who was in her dinghy going back and forth along that shore all the way down to Tahiti Beach, all the way past the Abaco Inn and the White Sound Channel and then all the way to the Firefly Inn where her boat was anchored. She and her husband were in the dinghy and she said, "There's no way we would have gone out in the dinghy if it were the conditions he was describing." So, why didn't you throw the life jackets? Two of them? Why didn't you put one on and then swim to her with the other one? You're a US Marine, right? Okay, don't get me started. In any case, he says he throws the green city cushion, you know, little floaty swimming thing, and that thing ends up all the way over on Marsh Harbour with him. It made the same journey that he made, he said. And he actually said, "That's incredible because," and a lot of you have asked this question in the comments, who said, "I'm a little confused about where the, the green floaty device was compared to where he washed up on shore." So, he washes up on, uh, the shore on the eastern shore of Marsh Harbour, four miles away from Elbow Cay. He crosses the Sea of Abaco all night for nine hours. Wouldn't take nine hours. Um, not even in a wind, even in a breeze. It wouldn't take that long. Um, and the green flotation swim cushion ends up a hundred yards or so south of him on the same shore. And I want to show you now the fire and rescue volunteer who found it and picked it up and videotaped picking it up. So, take a look. >> This is, uh, I'm retrieving the blue float that Brian Hooker said that he threw out of his boat in, uh, when his wife went missing. He said it was a green cushion that he described just like this. We saw this from the water on Sunday morning and it is Tuesday morning and we have come back and, uh, I'm pretty sure this is what Brian described. >> And I think this little graphic will help because this shows and this is drawn by the fire and rescue guys. Uh, the, the D is where the dinghy was found on Marsh Harbour's shore and the F is where the floaty was found on the shore. You can see how close they were, just 100 yards apart. And if you zoom out from there, you can see as you sort of look to the east, you can see the land mass that is Lubbers's Quarters. And that's the land mass that miraculously Brian missed as he was floating all the way across the Sea of Abaco. And we zoom out even more and you get to the place where this whole mess started, and that's over at Elbow Cay, right off the shore, 150 meters off the shore. He says, "Oh, Lynette went off the back and then, oh hell, whatever. I started my giant float that took nine hours to get all the way over to Marsh Harbour." But now you can kind of see that he, he missed that northern tip of Lubbers and and ended up on that full float across to to Marsh Harbour. And that little green floaty stayed with him the whole way. And yet, if that paddle is his, it didn't. And we have not seen Lynette's dry bag because Lynette didn't squeeze all the air out of her dry bag. Normally, you can see it in her dinghy often where she just folds it over a couple times like most people do and then clicks, you know, cinches it and, and that's the dry bag. Um, so it would have floated more than likely where that potential paddle ended up. It, it would be somewhere. That dry bag would be somewhere. And that dry bag is supposedly containing his passport, her passport, their additional key, how convenient to the, uh, to the dinghy, and maybe some other various and sundry things. I think her phone as well. So it hasn't turned up. Curious though. Very curious why it wouldn't blow in the same pattern as that green flotation swimming thing. Uh, or even the paddle because those went two different directions. And so did his dinghy. What's so interesting is I've spoken to that fire and rescue representative who picked up that floaty cushion, and this is the same fire and rescue representative, um, with whom Brian was texting back and forth madly in the days after Lynette disappeared. And one of the things he said to this representative, um, when he was told that it was found just a hundred yards of where his dinghy had washed up on shore, he said, "Incredible to think we floated all that way, a hundred yards apart." Yes, that is incredible. Especially since the oar that may be yours, uh, washed up on Lubbers way south of where you are now. I did speak with Blaine Stevenson about the difference between an oar floating and a cushion or a dinghy floating. And he did say that an aluminum oar might fill with water somewhat and then be partially submerged. It doesn't have the high profile, so it's not catching the wind as much. So, it's, it's really traveling more with the current and the tide than maybe with the wind. So, there is that possibility as well. And I will give you that. Um, but you can't ignore the wind that was blowing all the way to the southwest, right? It was an east wind and it was blowing to the south and it was blowing to the west. Okay? And so your high-profile dinghy would have been blown more, uh, because it's light, right, by the wind. You would have ended up on Lubbers. In any case, Lynette would have too. If you really told the truth, Lynette would have also more than likely, with the flood patterns, the tide patterns, the wind, she would have also ended up on Lubbers. But I will also add this because I spoke with one of the homeowners there who has told me that there is extensive bull shark patrolling, so to speak, along the shore of Lubbers, eastern shore of Lubbers, and that he doesn't even swim off his dock because he regularly sees bull shark activity swimming up and down the shore of Lubbers. So again, I don't for a minute believe that Lynette went in the water the way Brian says she did. I'm a boater and I just know that the whole story sounds like [ __ ] right? So I don't believe that. Um, but I just do want to mention that over on the shore, uh, at Lubbers, that that eastern shore of Lubbers, uh, there is extensive bull shark activity and that comes from a homeowner who doesn't even swim off his own dock because of that.
One other thing I wanted to show you because it took a little research to figure this out. Um, many of you have probably seen Brian and Lynette on paddleboards on their social media and they are paddling around Marsh Harbour. And of course, you would think, well, might he then have the lay of the land if he was paddling so close to shore? He would see things in advance. It's a very smart thinking, um, pattern, but I want to dispel because we've learned the actual location of where Brian and Lynette were paddleboarding and it wasn't out on that eastern shore of Marsh Harbour where he, uh, washed up. It was actually quite a ways away from it. So, Brian and Lynette had purchased or were renting a mooring ball in the actual, um, anchorage of Marsh Harbour and that's a very protected, um, harbor inside the island of, of Marsh Harbour. So, it's kind of like on the northern part. It dips in as a big bay and you can see, you know, the, the bay is, is curved and, and all the sailboats, you know, hook up to mooring balls or throw their own anchor out. And they were renting a mooring ball, which means it's a permanent anchor. There's a ball floating. You just hook up to it and you're, you're already anchored. Very little work. You don't have to set your hook. So they were renting a mooring ball which also gave them the rights to be at the Conch Inn, which was on land and they could avail of the services there, the pool and the bar and the restaurant and all the rest. And so when they got off their sailboat and we showed you the pictures, we, we circled around their boat, Soulmate. Again, that name Soulmate, given what we're dealing with, right? Um, they circled around Soul, I circled around Soulmate and showed you pictures in Marsh Harbour. They got those paddleboards off Soulmate and they actually paddleboarded inside the harbor and they paddleboarded, if you're looking at your map, up to the top of the, uh, the horseshoe there, you can see just off to the, uh, to the, uh, west side. Um, there's some creeks and they were in there. I've gotten the local report that the images in the background of where Brian and Lynette were paddleboarding are indeed in those creeks inside that harbor, not way out and around on the eastern shore of Marsh Harbour. So, anybody who thought, well, he may have been getting some ideas, you know, by checking out the eastern shore, uh, of Marsh Harbour, that wasn't what they were doing with the paddleboarding. And it's just helpful sometimes to dispel these things because I know that sleuthing is a serious business and so many of the clues on social media will actually tell you very important things like, what about that pink Apple Watch, right? That's sleuthing. Seeing that photo and seeing that she's likely wearing that pink Apple Watch in her selfie pictures back at the, uh, Abaco Inn, that's sleuthing. But sometimes they're, they're a red herring or a dead end. And I just wanted to make sure that if you're watching, this one is a dead end. This paddleboarding was inside the harbor. So, it wouldn't have given you any knowledge of that other shore on the outside of the harbor.
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