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“We don’t know his present whereabouts,” Gannon said “We can try to contact him”

“Please do that, Captain Could you also prepare a list of everyone on board?”

“I’ll get right to it, Detective-Superintendent You can conduct your interviews in the mess hall”

“Thank you very much for your cooperation, Captain”

As Gannon hurried off to carry out Randolph’s request, Randolph said, “Now, gentlemen, since you were so intiht, perhaps you wouldn’tinterviewed first”

“We’d be happy to tell you the whole story,” Austin said

They shook hands all around As Randolph walked off to supervise his team, he snorted like a horse

“Engineers,” he muttered

Austin suggested that Zavala take the first interviehile he tried to reach Kane He walked a short distance from the activity on the aft deck, and called directory assistance on his cell phone, asking for the nuenerated voice informed him that the lab was not open to the public and referred callers to the center’s website

After a ht, he punched in another number from his phone list

A low, cool female voice answered his call

“Hi, Kurt,” said Garatulations Paul and I watched the bathysphere dive on TV until the transot cut off Hoas the briny deep?”

“Briny and deep I’ll tell you about it later Sorry to interrupt your sabbatical at Scripps, but I need a favor I’d like you or Paul to wrangle an invitation to the Bonefish Key e visitors, but if anyone can get in it’s you”

“Didn’t the director of Bonefish Key make the B3 dive with Joe?”

“His name is Max Kane But don’t expect any help from him”