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Three hours and three minutes passed before anyone called 911.
Currents Beneath the Surface follows one journey through the aftermath of a son’s death at a U.S. Coast Guard base — from the phone call before dawn into everything that came after. The reader comes to know Ben — his big presence, and the unraveling no one stopped — and to feel the void left behind. It moves between that life remembered and the long search that grief set in motion. A mother turned investigator, she could not stop asking why: tracing the timestamps, medical records, and documents that didn’t add up. Part grief memoir, part investigation, it holds both at once — the love and the evidence, the mourning and the answers the institutions won’t give. It is the story of what it costs a family when the help never comes and the harm goes unanswered — and of one person who would not look away.
