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He went up on deck And, several ht up the body with the bloody sheet around it It was fastened with a nylon rope, and a kettlebell weight was lashed to Lynch’s feet
“With that much blood to attract the sharks,” Brekker said, “they’ll make short work of him”
He looked around to see if there were any witnesses but shouldn’t have bothered The only visible ship was a ferry on the horizon
“Do it,” Brekker said, and the men tossed the body into the water It immediately sank from view
“Get the dive gear ready,” he told the h it was late afternoon, they’d still have a few hours of daylight to do an initial reconnaissance
Brekker went to the cockpit and put theitude and latitude of the wreckage to Polten, and the GPS syste him to that precise spot only five hundred yards from the islet
Though fishero, the wreck was located far from the normal tourist dive spots, and recreational companies had been warned to stay away until NUMA had coer from unexploded ordnance on board
It looked like the warning had worked because when the yacht arrived, they had the place all to themselves At the indicated location, Brekker motored back and forth over the coordinates, a sandy stretch of seafloor fifty feet deep He kept an eye on the bottoular shape of a ship’s bow jutting from the sand
After dropping anchor and shutting off the engine, he went back to the aft deck to find his fourtheir wetsuits
“How could the Pearsall have been undiscovered here for more than seventy years?” one of theht now, but we’re not exactly in the middle of nowhere”
Brekker shrugged into his own suit “It was probably covered by sand in a typhoon like the one that’s approaching and then uncovered by noret down there now Hidalgo ain”
When they were ready, the five of them went over the side
Brekker immediately spotted the prow of the destroyer in the crystal clear water He could make out the top of the ship’s hull number stenciled on the side: DD-542 The warship must have come to rest on the bottom with its stern lower than the bow The top of the superstructure barely peeked above the surface of the sand Most of thethe theory that the entire ship had been buried in the sand until recently
If they were going to explore the interior of the Pearsall, they’d have to find a way inside, but all of the visible port hull was intact Brekker had acquired underwater cutting torches, but he hoped to find an easier way in
He led hisfor: a jagged hole where the Japanese torpedo had hit Most of the hole was filled with sand, but Brekker thought they could dig their way through