Episode
Dark Miles - The Longest Swim with Chris Carroll
- Podcast
- Hiker Trash Radio
- Published
- Aug 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1126
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Summary
On January 8th, 2026, Chris Carroll was on the balcony of his hotel in St. Croix downloading GoPro footage when the beach got loud. Then louder. Then he heard someone yell for a lifeguard. There were no lifeguards. Chris is an emergency nurse, a former firefighter, a trained diver, and a waterman who has spent decades preparing to be useful if the moment ever came. He swam out into the Caribbean and found a woman surrounded by bright crimson water. He brought her back. He didn’t win. She didn’t live. And the people who congratulated him for bravery couldn’t understand why it felt so wrong. Dark Miles is a narrative documentary series from Hiker Trash Radio. These are the stories that happen in the water, on the trail, and in the mountains that the finish-line photo never captures.