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Juan snapped his fingers “Tate revealed so else to odoal”

Juan tapped on his tablet and put a map of Brazil on his HD wall screen He pointed to a small town near the mouth of the Amazon River

“There The Kansas City has to be soion”

“That’s a lot of ocean to cover,” Overholt said

“Three thousand squareon how far out the KC hen she sank The search could still take weeks And if she bottomed out deeper than two thousand feet, the hull would definitely be crushed”

“No,” Overholt said, “Tate on was just looking two thousand ht place”

“So the KC really is lying in two hundred fifty feet of water?”

Overholt nodded “Is that significant?”

Juan didn’t answer Instead, he put up the Atlantic Ocean depth chart on the screen and then zoomed in on the Brazilian coast He stood and went over to the monitor

“Here’s the edge of the continental shelf,” he said, tracing a line vaguely es about a hundred feet in depth until it gets to this ledge Then it drops rapidly to the abyssal plain The edge of the shelf is the only place where the ocean is two hundred fifty feet deep”

“Do you think the Kansas City cae?” Overholt asked

“That’s what Tate is i All the Navy would have to do is follow this line and they’d find the KC in a day”

“We have to call the US Navy and tell therid”

“Do you think they’d believe you?”

“I doubt it,” Overholt said “I’ve used up overnmental favors”