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"What happened?" Gant said

"A slight diversion," Margrave said He wiped the nervous sweat froain powered up the dynamos

As the ship rose higher in the air, the water around the vessel began to boil The ocean liner enty feet in the air, then thirty

"Stop this fro," Gant said

Margrave killed power again but the ship continued to rise

Fifty feet

"You fool! What have you done?"

"The computer models-"

"Damn the computer models!"

Margrave left the control panel and rushed to one of the big rapped around the observation platform Her stared with horror at the sea

The ship was at the top of a huge, fast-rising column of water

Austin had seen the whirlpool grow until it was around ten miles wide Noatched in fascination as the vortex leveled out, changed into a seething pool of white steaan to mound into a watery cyclone

The rew in height and width as it spun like a whirling dervish

The plane was co around for another pass Austin dashed up to the cockpit

"Bring us up as fast and as high as you can Get away from this area"