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"The element required to stimulate the optimurabber, gentlemen, because the world's only known quantity of byzanium ore was shipped to the United States back in 1912 on board the Titanic"

"I see" Ke the ship is your last-ditch atte your defense system operational?"

"Byzaniura its known properties into our computers, ere able to project a thirty-thousand-to-one ratio in favor of success"

"But why raise the entire ship?" Ke up the byzanium"

"We'd have to blast our way into the cargo hold with explosives The danger of destroying the ore forever is too great The President and I agree that the added expense of raising the hull far outweighs the risk of losing it"

Keain "You're a positive thinker, Seagrarant you that But what ht up in one piece After seventy-five years on the botto but an immense pile of rusty junk"

"My people have a theory on that," said Sandecker He put his fishing pole aside, opened his tackle box and pulled out an envelope "Take a look at these" He handed Keraphs

"Looks like so much underwater trash," Kemper commented

"Exactly," Sandecker answered "Every so often the cameras on our sub ships" He pointed to the top photo "This is a galley stove found at four thousand feet off Berraphed at sixty-five hundred feet off the Aleutians No way to date either of these Now, here is a Grumman F4F World War II aircraft discovered at ten thousand feet, near Iceland We dug up a record on this one The plane was ditched in the sea without injury by a Lieutenant Strauss when he ran out of fuel on March 17, 1946 "

Keth "What in hell is this thing?"

"That was taken at thethe Lorelei Current Expedition What at first looked like an ordinary kitchen flannel turned out to be a horn" He showed Keel's restoration

That's a cornet," Keht this up?"

'Yes, fro on the bottom since 1912"

Ke to tell me it came from the Titanic?"

"I can show you documented evide