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"How does that concern us?"

"Their project director is probably whistling up a helicopter this htfall the tape will be in Washington And by this time tomorrow they'll probably have identification"

"On you"My partner and I kept our face masks on Remember?"

"The dae has been done The A a wreck They'll be aware of who and what they're up against and will take every precaution"

Gly shrugged and began unzipping his diving suit "If that mechanical fish hadn't interrupted us, we could have laid the charges, blown the hulk and left thee"

"Bad luck on our part," said Shaw "How far did you get?"

"We'd barely startedlights co from over the stern"

"Where are the explosives?"

"Still on the forecastle of the wreck, where we stored them"

"How many pounds?"

Gly thought atwo hundred-pound sealed containers"

"Twenty-four hundred pounds," Shaw totaled He turned to Doc Coli "What if we detonated?"

"Right now?"

"Right now"

"Weight for weight, Trisynol is three times as powerful as TNT" Coli paused to stare across the water at the Ocean Venturer "The pressure waves from its explosion would break the back of the NUMA ship"