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The diver’s watch had synced to the sound—two taps every six seconds. The same rhythm looped for eight minutes. Then stopped. Julia overlaid the sound against Morse code. It wasn’t random. It repeated two letters: S and R. She shared the info with the linguist. He went pale. “That’s the same sequence found carved on a 14th-century shipwreck off the Azores. But that wreck had no known country of origin.”
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