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Fathoms Deep

Exploring maritime legends, fantasy craft, and the depths between—where historical truths and mythic possibilities converge.

Newsletter · By Morgan A.Drake 🏴‍☠️ · Official site

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  1. Issue · Jul 30, 2026

    When the Plan Falls Apart (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Dead Reckoning—my logbook of the creative life. Written with a compass in one hand and a sea chart in the other. Have you ever been in the middle of doing something, and realized you don’t know where you are anymore?It comes up without any real warning. One day you’re at your desk, doing what you said you’d do that day— because, deadlines— and somewhat distractedly you reach for the reason you’re doing it in the first place, for inspiration, and

  2. Issue · Jul 25, 2026

    Behind the Chart | on the making of 'Atlantis' (opens the original)

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    Behind the Chart is where the research goes when the essay can’t hold it. Each piece accompanies a published Fathoms Deep essay and follows threads the argument had to drop — disputed sources, extended readings and the questions that stayed open. You’ve already read the essay. This is what was left on the chart table.A short note about the in

  3. Issue · Jul 15, 2026

    Atlantis, the City that Keeps Forgetting (opens the original)

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    Fathoms Deep has been circling lost things for a while now — ghost ships that keep sailing after everyone aboard is gone, cursed waters, the sea as a place where things disappear and occasionally return as something stranger. Lost cities were always going to come up for us. They surface in maritime mythology constantly: Ys off the coast of Brittany, Lyonesse beneath the Celtic Sea, Vineta in the Baltic, a dozen others swallowed by water and time. Atlantis is the one everyone knows, which also ma

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