"A Descent into the Maelström" by Edgar Allan Poe

You can support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/sststr

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.
-Joseph Glanville.

The picture used is an illustration by Harry Clarke, published in 1919, for this very story.

Follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#chap2.3