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* FatalMacGuffin: The treasure is said to be under a curse that kills anyone who tries to retrieve it. [[spoiler:Turns out that the main "centerpiece" of the treasure is in fact highly radioactive.]]
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* {{Curse}}: The treasure is rumored to carry a horrible curse on it that claims the lives of those who try to retrieve it.
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* {{Curse}}: The treasure is rumored to carry a horrible curse on it that claims the lives of those who try to retrieve it. [[spoiler: Justified in-universe considering that the central treasure is ridiculously radioactive. What else would pre-Marie Curie people attribute radiation poisoning to?]]
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Johnny Hatch, among others who were claimed by the Water Pit. [[spoiler: Not finding his body drove his father nearly mad until he died on the island still searching for his boy.]]
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Johnny Hatch, among others who were claimed by the Water Pit. [[spoiler: Not finding his body drove his father nearly mad until he died on the island still searching for his boy. The team finds his body later in the story, forcing Hatch to come to terms with his death.]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: Though the majority of the treasure is lost [[spoiler: and lethally radioactive, besides]], Bonterre still held onto a valuable gold doubloon she found earlier buried on the surface of the island.
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Set off the coast of Stormhaven, Maine and targeting the fictional Ragged Island Water Pit, the novel focuses on Dr. Malin Hatch, whose family has owned the seemingly worthless island for several generations after his grandfather became the latest in a centuries-long line of treasure hunters to bankrupt themselves attempting, and failing, to recover its now-legendary horde.
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Set off the coast of Stormhaven, Maine and targeting the fictional Ragged Island Water Pit, the novel focuses on Dr. Malin Hatch, whose family has owned the seemingly worthless island for several generations after his grandfather became the latest in a centuries-long line of treasure hunters to bankrupt themselves attempting, and failing, to recover its now-legendary horde.
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* DeathTrap: All over the Pit's design.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Reverend Clay exposes himself to a lethal dose of radiation to save Hatch and Bonterre from the same fate.]]
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* BigEater: Kerry seems to live on ice cream sandwiches.
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* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler: Macallan designed the Pit to collapse in on itself and down into the depths of the piercement dome.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: "''Ye who luste after the key to the Treasure Pitt shall find instead the key to the next world, and your carcase shall rot close to the Hell where your soule hat gone.''" [[spoiler: Bonterre repeats these lines from the journal (which had seemed like a moral warning when first deciphered) after the treasure and the island collapse into the depths of the piercement dome.]]
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''Riptide'' is an 1998 adventure novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Child]] inspired by the real-life Oak Island Money Pit; a possible buried treasure horde off the coast of Nova Scotia that has resisted two hundred years of excavation attempts through lethally dangerous floods and cave-ins.
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''Riptide'' is an 1998 adventure novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child inspired by the real-life Oak Island Money Pit; a possible buried treasure horde off the coast of Nova Scotia that has resisted two hundred years of excavation attempts through lethally dangerous floods and cave-ins.
