Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
A Story of the Sea

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Out of the Fog by C. K. Ober

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Out of the Fog
A Story of the Sea

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rings, I had often found the buoy in the fog and believed that we could do it again. We kept on rowing and knew when we had rowed far enough, though we had not counted the strokes; but we found nothing.

"Guess we have drifted too far to leeward; pull up to windward a little. That's strange, we must have passed it, this blamed fog is so thick. What's that over there?" We zigzagged back and forth for some time and then realized that we had missed it and must go back to the vessel and get our inner buoy. This seemed easy, but we found that it is as important to have a point of departure as it is to have a destination, and not knowing just where we were we could not head our boat to where the vessel was. We shouted, and listened, rowed this way and that way but not a sound came to us through the fog, although we knew that the boy must be at his post ringing the bell, so that the boats could hark their way back to the vessel. I learned afterward that the tide that morning was exceptionally strong. I had noted i

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The sea fog is treacherous.
If you take it for granted, you can become lost.
If you underestimate it, you can die.
Two men in a small boat, commit both errors in judgement.
Will time and fate, bring them out of the fog.