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With Giordino and Cruz at his heels, he turned upriver to where the Duluth had struck the tanker Pitt swa at the sides of the corrugated storage tanks that had been sheared open The water grew darker as black streams of oil swirled from multiple fissures in the bulkheads Pitt ascended to the hter had co the ship in two

Pitt throttled the scooter and took a full spin around the sunken vessel before surfacing and e As he swam up to the platform, a pair of soft, feminine hands reached down and took the scooter so he could climb aboard

Pitt cliht-fitting ju, and wore a petulant look “Are you boys done with your swim so I can attack this oil spill?” she asked

Pitt pulled off his rinned at her forwardness As she looked into his eyes, she fumbled and dropped the scooter to the deck Pitt stripped off his dive tank and weight belt as she retrieved the scooter, then he stood and shook her hand

“Yes, we’ve completed our survey And thanks for the assist I’m Dirk Pitt”

“Audrey McKee, field e supervisor toldthe Mayweather”

“McKee? You hter of Evanna McKee I just ht”

Audrey squinted at hiton,” she replied

“We just flew in this ”

Giordino and Cruz surfaced and climbed aboard, and Pitt made the introductions

“I hope you brought a big bag of hungry bacteria with you,” Giordino said

Audrey pointed to a se stainless steel tanks were visible on the forward deck

“We are fully stocked with a supply of biorened for tar sands oil, which we’re ready to deploy”

“Live bacteria?” Cruz asked

“Several proprietary varieties of anisms, actually, that feed on hydrocarbon molecules”