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MacD’s eyes bulged with terror as he looked into the water of the moon pool His mouth rounded into a scream that Linda couldn’t hear, and he reared back as he threw the tank into theout of the depths, which was impossible because they hadn’t opened the keel doors yet

The rest of the technicians in the cavernouseach other or hurting themselves

Linda finally understood what she was seeing It was happening again The sa that had affected the crew of the Gator in Rio

This ti in the sub noas preventing her fro affected

She turned and saw that wasn’t the case

Raven had dropped the tablet and was prying open the case holding the sub’s eency life raft at the aft end of the cabin She see to herself

We’re thinking There sending us to the bottom

Linda yelled and leaped out of her seat to stop her, but she had only reached the external hatch ladder when Raven yanked the cord on the inflatable raft

The pressurized CO2 canister began blowing it up, and soon neither of thes, and her head poked out of the hatch as the raft began pushing her feet up and out

She tumbled onto the deck of the Gator and saw complete pandeear and was now frantically tossing any random object around him into the water

Linda rele- with any of them was futile If the rest of the creas like this, it was just athe the ship

The op center was the only place where she could get the situation under control As she raced out of the ht be the sole person on the Oregon as unaffected by whatever was causing this

But she had been affected before Why not now?

Julia Huxley dashed by in hysterics, which terrified Linda even more because it was so out of character for the norle Glass interpreted as We’re going to fly It suddenly hit Linda

She was deaf Soer for all of this panic