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Plot Summary 
.......It is early July. The narrator of the story and an old man climbed to the top of the highest rock in Norway. After the old man caught his breath, he seated himself on the brinkof the cliff and says he is not as old as he looks.
.......The “old man” says he brought the narrator to the precipice so that he could view the scene where the terrifying experience occurred wherethere were two islands, the bigger one was Vurrgh and the smaller was Moskoe.
A tide shook the sea, especially the waters between the two islands. A whirlpool appeared. The narrator said that thewhirlpool had to be the Maelstrom, a famous ocean phenomenon occurring off the west coast of Norway. The old man confirmed his observation but says his countrymen call the whirlpool theMoskoe-strom.  The narrator never thought it would be so fearful and the “old man” told him that the whirlpool was caused by the tide and it lasted six hours while the tide rise, and six hours again while it wentdown.
.......After the narrator and the old man were away from the noise of the whirlpool, the latter recounts his experience. He and his two brothers had had a small ship and they had fished aroundthese islands. But even there, the ocean could be violent, and no other fishermen from Lofoden were brave enough to face it.
.......On the day of the old man’s terrifying experience–three yearsbefore his rendezvous with the narrator–the old man and his brothers had gone out to the islands from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. After they began their return trip, strange brown clouds moved up fast behind them.Within minutes, the storm began. Seconds later his younger brother was blown straight into the sea and lost. It didn’t happen to him because he had tied himself to one of the masts to ride out thestorm.
After that his elder brother appeared and shouted in his ear and he understood that the storm was driving them towards the whirlpool. There was nothing they could do because their sails had...