Fishing Boat Dumps Tank In Ocean, Then Coast Guards Find Out Why

It was a small waterproof beacon, bolted into the sand. Not military-issue. Mason grabbed it and signaled to surface. Minutes later, back on deck, the team examined it. It wasn’t a tracker—it was a transmitter. And it had been sending location pings to a university several hundred miles away. Mason raised an eyebrow. “What’s a marine biology lab doing with this?”