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The metallic taste of panic coated my tongue as visibility dropped to fifteen feet - maybe twenty on a generous day. One moment we were laughing over thermos coffee, watching seagulls dive for herring. The next, Puget Sound vanished behind a wall of soupy grey that swallowed our 28-foot cabin cruiser whole. My fingers trembled against the wheel when the depth finder flatlined, its cheerful beeps replaced by the terrifying hum of empty frequencies. That's when Mark's voice cut through the silence

The creeping fog swallowed Biscayne Bay whole that Tuesday morning - one minute I was sipping lukewarm coffee watching pelicans dive, the next I couldn't see past my bow rail. My Raymarine unit chose that precise moment to flash "NO CHART DATA" in mocking red letters. Panic tasted like salt and cheap coffee as I fumbled with paper charts that dissolved into soggy pulp in the humidity. That's when my trembling fingers found the Marine Ways icon buried beneath fishing apps.