What if you lost someone at sea?  You woke up at midnight, to relieve them of their watch, and you couldn’t find them on the boat.  Anywhere.  It’s not as if they popped off to the corner store to buy milk.  Or you forgot that today was the day they were flying to Spain.  You are in the middle of the Pacific.  It’s a 35 foot boat.  There is a set number of square feet both above and below decks.  You’ve combed every single inch of each one of those square feet.  And the person is simply not on the boat.  Where could they be other than floating somewhere in that endless sea?
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