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The Note in the Feed Bucket
≈ 4 min
The Tidewell Marine Sanctuary runs a paid 'Keeper for a Morning' tour along the service catwalk above its two-storey kelp forest tank. This morning, docent lead Nora Halvorsen found a typed note tucked in the sea-otter feed bucket: 'Cancel the night dives or I go to the papers about the sick fish.' No fish are sick, and the note is a hoax — but it rattled the staff and a reporter has been calling. Four people had catwalk access before the 9 AM tour. Find the author.
Subject
Tidewell Marine Sanctuary
A small nonprofit aquarium whose reputation and grant funding hinge on a spotless welfare record; the anonymous note threatens to invent a scandal.
The suspects
- Nora Halvorsen — Docent lead
- Marcus Voss — Night dive volunteer
- Priya Anand — Staff aquarist
- Declan Reyes — Grant-funded intern
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This case first aired on August 9, 2026. A fresh detective runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.