halocline Chapters: 1/1 National Treasure (Movies) Abigail Chase/Benjamin Franklin Gates, Abigail Chase & Riley Poole, Benjamin Gates & Riley Poole Additional tags: Cibola aftermath, National Treasure Week 2024, Day 2: buried/hidden/underwater, Canon-typical near-drowning, Hypothermia, Canon-typical violence
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-the water laps cold against his neck as he treads water with one arm, the weight held close in his other. "At any time in the water, you might be someone else's only chance of survival. You have to be able to tread water with weight for as long as it might take for help to reach you," the instructor calls over the pool.- - The water is rushing straight through the fabric of his clothes, swirling frigid around his knees. Abigail and Riley and his parents are all saying something at once, voices overlapping over the rushing noise and bouncing off the walls. ------- Ben Gates has Navy dive training. When his family is in the water, it can't help them.
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