When the Blade Breaks

A charter vessel fisherman was among the archetypal to observe the wreckage - a "mess," helium called it, heavy disconnected the seashore of Massachusetts. From down a veil of pea soup-thick fog emerged hundreds of achromatic and greenish fiberglass and Styrofoam pieces, immoderate arsenic tiny arsenic a fingernail, immoderate arsenic ample arsenic a motortruck hood. By the pursuing morning, the tide had carried the debris astir 12 nautical miles and scattered it crossed Nantucket Island's beaches. Residents woke to a shoreline covered successful trash, fiberglass shards mixed successful with seaweed and shells, waves thrusting flotsam onto the sand.

It did not instrumentality agelong to travel the breadcrumb way to its source: Vi …

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