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Now, for someone who isn't super educated in wind currents and boating and pretty much everything that Richard was an expert in and looked into, this all might sound a little bit confusing, so I'm going to try and explain it the best that I can.

Nathan had been pretty clear with the investigators of where his boat went down and where his life raft had gone for those seven days.

So Richard figured if he was telling the truth, let's just check the buoy that would have been in the location that Nathan described.

Because these buoys aren't just like little bobbing pieces of plastic in the water.

They also have pretty extensive technology that's embedded within them.

They have weather sensors for above water, weather sensors for below water that measure things like wind speed and currents, things like that, which is key, particularly for the days that Nathan claimed to have been out at sea.

So Richard studied the week that Nathan and Linda were missing.

And his findings were pretty interesting, to say the least.

First, Nathan's recollection of the current and the winds, it was all wrong, which you might be thinking, okay, that's not that weird.

Maybe he was confused.

Maybe he doesn't know anything about currents or winds or things like that.

And that very well could be the case, though it does have to be said that he wasn't a beginner when it came to being out on the water and being a boater and a fisher.

He knew his way around pretty well.

But Richard also found

that based on where Nathan claimed he and his mom were at when the boat went under and went down, combined with the currents and the winds, his life raft should have gone north for a while, then west until he reached New York.

But instead, his raft somehow went north, then it went east, and it hit Boston, which is where he ultimately was rescued by that cargo ship.