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There was one advantage to the Portland withdrawing behind the island Juan could no longer feel the sonic disruptor’s effect ricocheting through his brain

Murph’s jury-rigged version of the saon’s sonar, however, was ready to deploy

“Murph,” Juan said “See if you can disrupt the passive sonars on those torpedoes”

“Activating it now”

The sonar donal that should cause the torpedoes’ sensors to malfunction Theoretically

“Stoney, move us out of the direct path the torpedoes would have been taking”

Eric took a deep breath and said, “Not much room to maneuver in here, but I’ll see what I can do”

He eased the Oregon over toward the closest island as near to it as he dared The Portland’s torpedoes ran too deep to spot them visually, so the only way to know they’dthem explode Hopefully, far away

A geyser erupted by the shore opposite to the the weapon to swerve off course

But it didn’t work the sa in the other direction because it exploded off the Oregon’s port bow, rocking the ship frorip his chair to keep fro out

Alar a hull breach

“Closing watertight doors in sections three, five, and seven,” Max called out as caline power in the port venturi tube, andstarboard ballast tanks to co”

With the Oregon severely wounded, they couldn’t wait any longer to give the Deepwater on out of there before the Portland could take another shot at the, the Portland would run theon could lose her

What Juan wouldn’t give for some kind of roadblock

His eyes snapped to thethem from the Portland It was only a matter of time before she came back around the island, and she had to take the port side because the starboard side was far too crah