A sort of Atlantis, but rising and sinking twice a day.
One thinks at first that sand would be less dire than rock, but this shows that it has its own terror.
"...survivor Ronald Murton, scrambled through the skylight and into the inferno that was raging above."
Though it must have been hell-like, "inferno" struck me as a strange description of conditions on the Straits of Dover in late November (this very date, thank you Bruce).
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