The industrial harbor of Marseilles at two in the morning was a desolate graveyard of decaying French maritime history. Rusted gantry cranes stood silhouetted against the overcast night sky like the skeletal ribs of prehistoric beasts. Decades of heavy oil spills and industrial runoff had turned the water in the abandoned dry docks into a stagnant, greasy black sludge that reeked of diesel, rust, and rot. Deep within the central…
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