The roadway between hotel and harbor wall had in recent moments disappeared.

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His resolve is tempered by thoughts of a friend's disappeared daughter and of the wall of water he just outran.

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Paul Gray, 50, disappeared when he climbed over a wall and into the pit after Craig Whipps became submerged in the slurry at Albyns Farm, near Ongar.

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Parts of the wall were always open to the public, but large parts had crumbled and the complete right of way had disappeared.

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