Silent Enemies: Part 4 – The Sound of Silence

Some failures leave no alarms – just empty chairs, unanswered questions and a mission that never ends. In Part 4 of Silent Enemies, Dr Darin Detwiler shares the personal loss that transformed his mission, revealing how silence in food safety can carry the heaviest cost of all.

When I left the submarine service, I believed I had completed my mission.

I had survived reactor drills and flooding emergencies. I had signed off on systems that kept lives intact under hundreds of metres of pressure. I had learnt about vigilance, about risk, and about how to listen for what was not there.

But nothing prepared me for what came next.

Read part 4 here: Silent Enemies: The Sound of Silence