[
 {
  "chunk": 50,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "On a mountain summit an exhausted guide tells the narrator that a single day of terror three years ago turned his hair white and broke his nerve.",
  "predicament": "A man aged overnight by one terrible ordeal brings a listener to the very spot to tell what happened."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 51,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The guide lounges carelessly on the edge of a sheer drop while the terrified narrator clings to the grass, then points him towards the sea below.",
  "predicament": "A nervous visitor clings to the ground at a height while his guide lounges on the edge and urges him to look."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 52,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The narrator looks out on a desolate black coast, bleak islands and a sea churning with strange cross-currents.",
  "predicament": "A visitor looks down on a desolate and threatening stretch of water and senses that something unnatural is at work there."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 53,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "As the guide names the islands, a roar rises and the sea between the island and the coast breaks into a furious eastward torrent full of whirlpools.",
  "predicament": "A visitor watches a calm stretch of water turn in minutes into a raging torrent, and realises what he has been brought to see."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 54,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The small whirlpools merge into one vast funnel with shining black walls and a shrieking roar; the narrator throws himself down, knowing it is the great whirlpool.",
  "predicament": "A man sees for himself a danger he had only read of, and finds it far worse than any account prepared him for."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 55,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The narrator reflects that no written account, including the most detailed one, conveys the horror of the whirlpool seen in a storm from the summit.",
  "predicament": "Someone who has seen a thing with his own eyes realises how little the careful accounts of others ever conveyed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 56,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He quotes an old account of the whirlpool: its roar, ships drawn down and broken, whales and a bear dragged under, trees thrown up shredded.",
  "predicament": "A reader weighs an old report of a deadly place, full of drowned ships and animals, against what he now sees."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He finds the account's claims about depth naive, since any ship caught by the whirl would vanish as easily as a feather.",
  "predicament": "An onlooker realises that tales he once thought exaggerated fall far short of the danger actually in front of him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The narrator finds the learned explanations of the whirlpool unconvincing in its presence; the guide leads him into shelter to tell his own story.",
  "predicament": "A man who has lived through a thing nobody understands offers to tell a listener what the experts get wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The guide tells how he and his two brothers alone fished the dangerous grounds by the whirlpool, risking their lives for catches the timid could never match.",
  "predicament": "A man and his brothers make a living by running a deadly risk every day that more careful rivals refuse to take."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "They crossed only in the short slack between tides, with a sure wind, and once were stranded near starving for a week before a lucky current saved them.",
  "predicament": "Men who make their living from a daily danger have learned its rules exactly, and have survived one close call already."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "They kept their sons out of the danger; three years ago, on a day of bright weather, came the worst hurricane anyone had known.",
  "predicament": "Men who gamble with their own lives but not their children's set out on a fine day that no one could suspect."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 62,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Loaded with fish, they set off home in time for the slack, but an unusual wind headed them, a copper cloud rose, and in minutes the storm struck in total darkness.",
  "predicament": "Men returning home on a routine run are caught by a sudden storm that nothing in their long experience foretold."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 63,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The masts go at once, taking the youngest brother; the narrator flattens himself on deck, clinging to a ring-bolt by instinct.",
  "predicament": "A man in a sudden catastrophe watches a brother swept away, and saves himself only by blind instinct."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 64,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "His elder brother appears alive, to his joy, then screams the name of the whirlpool: the wind is driving them straight into it.",
  "predicament": "A man's relief at finding a brother alive turns to horror when the brother tells him they are both doomed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 65,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He clutches at the hope of arriving at slack water, then despairs; the moon breaks through and his brother, too deafened to speak, signals him to listen.",
  "predicament": "A man clings to a thin hope of survival, then scolds himself for hoping at all as the danger closes in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 66,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "His watch has stopped at seven: they are past the slack and the whirl is at full fury; from the crest of a wave he sees it just ahead.",
  "predicament": "A man discovers that the one thing he relied on for his timing failed him, and his margin of safety is gone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 67,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Caught in the belt of surf around the whirl, the boat races round the edge; having given up hope, he finds himself calmer than before.",
  "predicament": "A man who has given up all hope of surviving finds that despair leaves him calmer than fear ever did."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 68,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He finds himself admiring the grandeur of his death and even curious to see the depths, and the stillness out of the wind helps restore his wits.",
  "predicament": "A doomed man, past fear, becomes curious about the very thing that is about to kill him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 69,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "As they near the inner edge, his crazed brother tries to wrench his hands off the ring-bolt; the narrator yields it and moves to a water cask just as the boat plunges.",
  "predicament": "A frightened relative, maddened by terror, tries to take the one hold that is keeping you alive."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 70,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Expecting death, he opens his eyes to find the boat hanging on the inside of an immense black funnel lit by the moon.",
  "predicament": "A man who expected instant death opens his eyes to find himself still alive, deep inside the thing he feared."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 71,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He sees the boat riding steadily on the steep wall, and a mist and a rainbow over the bottom from which an indescribable yell rises.",
  "predicament": "A man suspended over his own doom takes in every detail of it, strangely steady in the middle of the terror."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 72,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Swinging slowly downward, he watches the wreckage around him and idly bets on which will sink first, and his repeated wrong guesses start a new train of thought.",
  "predicament": "A trapped man passing the time by watching what shares his fate notices a pattern that might matter."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 73,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He realises that some objects are drawn down slowly enough to be thrown up again, and that barrel shapes sink slowest of all.",
  "predicament": "A trapped man, by calm observation of his surroundings, works out a possible way to escape a certain death."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 74,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He signals his plan to his brother, who refuses to leave the ring-bolt; with a bitter struggle he abandons him, lashes himself to the cask and jumps overboard.",
  "predicament": "A man who has found a way out cannot persuade a paralysed companion to follow, and must leave him behind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The boat plunges to the bottom with his brother; the whirl subsides before the cask sinks, and he is picked up by his fellow fishermen, who do not recognise him and do not believe his story.",
  "predicament": "A survivor of an ordeal returns so changed that his own companions do not know him, and nobody believes his story."
 }
]