BOOKS - The Tentacles From Below
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199640
The Tentacles From Below
Author: Anthony Gilmore
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 460 KB
Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 460 KB
Language: English
Full stop Rest readyThese words glowed in vivid red against the black background of the NX1s control orderboard A wheel was spun over a lever pulled back and in the hull of the submarine descended the peculiar silence found only in miledeep waters Men rested at their posts eyes alertAbove in the control room Hemingway Bowman youthful first officer glanced at the teleview screen and swore softlyKeith he said between you and me Ill be damned glad when this monotonous jobs over I joined the Navy to see the world but this charting jobs giving me entirely too many closeups of the deadest parts of itCommander Keith Wells U S N grinned broadly Well he remarked in a few minutes we can call it a dayor night ratherand then its back to the Falcon while the day shift sees the world He turned again to his dials as Hemmy Bowman with a sigh resumed workDepth six thousand feet Visibility poor Bottom eight thousand he said into the phone hung before his lips and fifty feet aft in a small cubby a blueclad figure monotonously repeated the observations and noted them down in an official geographical survey reportSuch had been their routine for two tiring weeks all part of the NXls present work of recharting the Newfoundland banksAs early as 1929 slight cataclysms had begun to tear up the seafloor of this region and of late1935seismographs and cable companies had reported titanic upheavals and sinkings of the ocean bed changing hundreds of miles of underwater territory Finally Washington decided to chart the alterations this series of subsea earthquakes had wroughtAnd for this job the NX1 was detailed A supersubmarine fresh from the yards small but modern to the last degree she contained such exclusive features as a sheathing of the tough new glycosteel automatic air rectifiers a location chart for showing positions of nearby submarines the newly developed Edsel electric motors and automatic teleview screen When below surface she was a sealed tube of metal one hundred feet long and possessed of an enormous cruising radius From the flower of the Navy some thirty men were picked and in company with the mothership Falcon she put out to combine an exhaustive trial trip with the practical charting of the newly changed ocean floor
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