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“We’ve probably already passed dozens of sea caves,” Remi said

This was true Many of the cliff faces they’d surveyed were shrouded in clie that jutted from every nook and cranny Fro a cave entrance and never know it They had little choice, however Slipping inside each reef break and checking every foot of every cliff would take years More frustrating still was thatlow tide, which should have given the

Suddenly Rehter and cocked her head, a posture Sam knew only too well: His wife had had a eureka moment

“What?” he asked

“I think we’re going about this the wrong way We’re assuation aid while test-driving the Molch before the mission, correct? They’d want to test out any refit work they’d done, wouldn’t they?”

“I’d hope so”

“And close to shore, they wouldn’t have risked grounding the sub by diving, which meant the Molch probably didn’t roam too far”

The Molch’s en, would have been equipped with an advanced open-ocean navigation system, but not so the mini submarine, which would have relied on speed-distance dead reckoning and, quite likely, visual aids

“Right again”

“So what if the only time Boeh back in—from a test dive”

“Froht not look like a goat’s head, but from a mile or two out to sea”

Re

Sahy about and pointed the nose toward open ocean

Once they were about aback the way they’d co beach toward the southeastern tip of the island, Signal Point, and Port Nelson, where they turned around and headed north again

By three thirty, tired, thirsty, and slightly sunburned despite their hats and repeated coatings of BullFrog sunscreen, they were athe coast through her binoculars, held up a closed fist Sam throttled down to an idle and waited Remi turned in her seat and leaned back to hand Sam the binoculars