The Wreck
Guy de Maupassant
La Rochelle is a Seaport on the West Coast of France made famous in WW#2 after the time of the author as the site of German U-Boat pens and used as a site for scenes in Das Boot. A shallow harbour much of which rises above water at low tide it was the site of the grounding of the Wreck in question when it ran aground in dense fog on a sand bar. Anyone who has visited Parrsboro, NS will understand how fast the tide runs at high tide. It's another issue why this boat was making such speed in dense fog.
The narrator here is an insurance adjuster who walks out to the wreck at low tide and gets marooned there when he gets captivated by English tourists and overstays slack tide. He'd been warned but isn't the first to be so trapped.
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