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"I know one ive up"
She looked at hily "Who?"
"My son, Dirk"
Hala rose and Iimped over to theand stared vacantly at the outside fiberboard that hid her view of the sea "You must be very proud of him He's a brave and resourceful h the deception-" She paused suddenly and peered down through a tiny crack that showed a brief span of water "There's so past the ship"
The Senator came over and stood beside her He could just ainst the blue of the sea "Ice," he said, stunned "That explains the cold Weinto the Antarctic"
Hala sagged against him and buried her face in his chest "We'll never be rescued now," she nation "No one will think to look for us there"
No one knew the Sounder could drive so hard Her decks treines and the hull shuddered as it pounded into the swells
Launched at a shipyard in Boston during the su out to oceanographic schools for deep-water research projects in every sea of the world After her purchase by NUMA in 1990, she had been completely overhauled and refitted Her new 4,000-horsepower diesel engine was designed to push her at a ineers somehow coaxed seventeen out of her
The Sounder was the only ship on the trail of the Lady Flaap as a basset hound after a leopard Warships of the Argentine Navy and British naval units stationed in the Falkjand Islandscruise ship, but they were not alerted
After Pitts codeddiscovery of the General Bravo instead of the Lady Flah, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House intelligence chiefs strongly advised the President to order a tight security lid on the revelation until US Special Operations Forces could reach the area and coordinate a rescue
So the old Sounder surged through the sea, alone and without any high official authority, her crew of seaht up in the mad excitement of the chase
Pitt and Giordino sat in the ship's dining roo a chart of the extreme South Atlantic Ocean that Gunn had laid out on the table and pinned doith coffee cups
"You're convinced they headed south?" Gunn said to Pitt
"A U-turn to the north would have put the liner back in the search grid," explained Pitt "And there's no way they would have sest toward the coastline of Argentina"
"They ht have made a run for the open sea"