Salt-worn timbers and tattered sails defy the tide. The hollow echoes of sunken wrecks vibrate in the lightless deep, while the grip of calcified coral claims oak skeletons guarding secrets the ocean will never return.

Jagged monoliths and concrete bastions fracture the advance. Cold-angled steel hedgehogs interlock in a frozen embrace, while the weight of dead-matter barricades halts the momentum of a violence destined to break against geometry.