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 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 explosives to cut her in half, sacrificing the bow to save the valuable stern.
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Episode 3: 2,000 Gallons of Acid, and a Submarine Full of Pancake Batter
The 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 the incredibly unique salvage plan used by a local lumber company. This episode is about taking a step back and looking out for unusual solutions. For parents of a kid with ADHD, suggestions from the more neurotypical world tend not to work. The narrative in this episode is about being willing to stand up in the face of advice from someone who just doesn’t get it.
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Episode 2: Shame
The 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 topic of shame: both the shame spiral that many people with ADHD experience, as well as the instinct of so many bystanders to shame people with ADHD for their neurodivergent behaviors.
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Episode 1: Fiery Wreck
The 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 Rynecki's dad custom designed a multicell buoyancy assist module (kind of like a giant pool floaty) to refloat her. Elizabeth wishes she too could design a metaphorical module to help Owen navigate life with ADHD.
This episode introduces listeners to her son, Owen, and her father, the ship salvage engineer.
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Introducing: That Sinking Feeling
This six-episode series is about the unlikely intersection of
ADHD and marine salvage.
https://www.elizabethrynecki.com/that-sinking-feeling/
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.
https://www.elizabethrynecki.com/that-sinking-feeling/
New Zealand