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“Then, what do we do? We won’t even have the fog to conceal us”

It had been five hours since the devastating sea battle, and the fog was beginning to lift

They hunched over the h the islands, but they all led back to two exits into the Pacific, one to the north and the other to the south It would take the between them at either choke point

“Why don’t ait here until the Chilean authorities arrive?” Vargas suggested

“You saw the Portland’s armament,” Jefferson said “A Coast Guard vessel would be cut to shreds by the Portland, and it et here It doesn’t matter anyway Our radios and satellite transmitter are toast”

“I thought your chief scientist said they’re still getting data from the sonobuoys and the webcams”

“We are That’s why I could warn the Oregon about the torpedoes The data is coon except by short-range radio”

“Froas said, “I don’t think they’ll be much help, either”

“Then we need to sit tight here until we can make headway”

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“Mary, what’s going on?” Jefferson asked

Harper planted a laptop on the console She clicked, and it brought up a wavefornized it as the signature of the song of the humpback whale

“We just heard this from Sonobuoy Two,” Harper said

She played the audio clip It was the familiar hoots, ru with its pod