The words in the table all have some marine association.

Each may be slid up or down within the grid at will.

Your task is to create a row of marine coherent text, however is your discovery truly a marine object?

B

E

C

M

S

S

S

A

R

O

C

Q

P

S

E

H

C

A

B

O

U

D

M

R

U

R

A

T

E

H

B

Y

R

I

O

A

A

R

A

L

E

L

A

D

R

S

T

F

F

R

M

L

Y

T

T

N

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Playing with potentially valid letter combinations in the first few columns and sliding subsequent words up/down quickly led to "Mermaid's Purse" (a.k.a. Devil's Purse), which is the egg case of rays, skates and sharks (particularly the spotted dogfish), often found washed up (and usually empty) in tidal pools along the sea shore. 

Posted by rod hines on 2009-12-09 16:22:04