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“Maybe The current’s slower in here”

“Half a knot, no reed

Fro to one another, then a third A gunshot echoed down the tunnel, then another, then a ten-second burst

“Shooting into the water,” Sa to flush us out”

“Look here, Sam”

He turned the light around and pointed it at the water where she was pointing Resting just beneath the surface was a curved shape

“Hull,” Remi whispered

“I think you’re right”

“We ht have just found the UM-77”

“Coot some work to do”

Explaining his plan on the go, they wrapped the hy, cinched it shut using the painter line, then sank the bundle beneath the pier Next they cut off a thirty-foot section of rope and started tying loops every few feet Once that was done, Sam asked her, “Which part do you want?”

“You dive, I’ll climb”

She gave hi, half creeping across the catwalk

Saht, slipped off the pier, and dove

He immediately realized this was not a Molch-class mini sub It was far too small, at least six feet shorter and half the diameter of the UM-34 It was a Marder-class boat, he decided, essentially a pair of G7e torpedoes stacked atop one another, the upper one hollowed out and converted into a cockpit/battery co dome, the lower one a live, detachable torpedo