Panic began to ripple through the small group as Maya and Sam scrambled up to the main deck, witnessing the empty horizon. Leo quickly stepped over to the boat’s modern navigation dashboard to check their exact coordinates and chart a path back to safety. The boat was equipped with a top-of-the-line digital map system, which should have made finding their way home incredibly simple once they cut the fouled anchor free from the debris.
But as Leo tapped the high-tech touchscreen to boot up the system, the display suddenly froze entirely. The digital map glitched violently, lines of harsh green static cutting across the monitor before the satellite connection bars dropped down to absolute zero. “The GPS is totally dead,” Leo muttered, tapping the glass panel in frustration. It made absolutely no sense for a modern, independent navigation system to completely black out like this, but they were suddenly left entirely blind in the middle of deep water, stripped of the vital technology they relied on for survival.