Bastian checked out the situation as well as he could with the Maiden's Mercy slowly starting to turn over.
They had run across a reef. With no expertise aboard when it came to noticing the patterns of shallow and deep waters, they had accidentally come too close to the shoreline and now Captain Black cursed all reefs, these real and fictional ones and the ones in the normal world that were neither.
"Fuck," he sighed.
I had to give him a break and I wrote this.