The Thames mudlarking waitlist
A six-minute field explainer turns hands-on artifact finds into an answer to why Thames search permits have a 10,000-person queue.
By @wsj for The Wall Street JournalRuns 08:19
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Why it works
A three-panel discovery at 0:00 withholds the object until the coin identification at 0:06–0:09. Rapid artifact examples around 0:36–0:53 alternate with longer live extractions at 2:18–2:55 and 4:21–4:55, giving the claims physical proof. The 10,000-person title payoff comes near 5:46, after an embedded creator video at the 5:25–5:30 replay peak shows how the pastime spreads.
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