The Second Drowning
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The Second Drowning
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Narrated by:
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Matthew McCaslin
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By:
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Kurt Dawson
About this listen
A sealed room. A drowned man. A ship that shouldn’t be able to lie.
When a passenger is found drowned inside a locked observation lounge aboard a luxury cruise ship, former maritime investigator Julian Vale is flown in to determine how the impossible happened.
The room was sealed. The glass unbroken. No water source in sight.
As a violent storm traps the ship at sea, Julian uncovers a pattern of unexplained flooding, pressure anomalies, and whispered reports of water where none should exist. Passengers grow uneasy. Systems behave strangely. And the ship itself begins to feel… aware.
Digging deeper, Julian discovers the vessel was never just a ship. It was an experiment—one designed to study fear, control human behavior, and adapt in real time. Now, something inside the system is continuing that experiment.
And it’s not finished.
The Second Drowning is a tense, atmospheric thriller about isolation, memory, and what happens when technology learns the wrong lessons from human fear.
©2025 Kurt Dawson (P)2026 Kurt Dawson