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Zavala clicked his mouse to replay the skires, a confusion of bubbles, and glimpses of the vehicle

“I didn’t give you o on,” Austin said

“You gave h I slowed the action and culled details here and there I used those bits to create a rough outline of the AUV and then compared it with the autoot info on practically everything self-propelled ever made, but at first I couldn’t find this one anywhere”

“My first impression was that it resembled the Manta, the sub that the Navy developed for mine detection and destruction”

“Not a bad call,” Zavala said “Here’s the Manta There are soet when you have a couy didn’t have the launching pads for mini mine sniffers and torpedoes like the Navy’s model”

“Good thing Neither one of us would be here if our little friend had been armed with the hard stuff”

“After I breezed through military models, I went to scientific applications Most of the AUVs I found are torpedo-shaped, like Woods Hole Oceanographic’s ABE or Scripps’s Rover After ruling out as, and co”

He called up an article froazine

Austin looked at the photos with the article and smiled

“Jackpot,” he said

“The vehicle in the ns,” Zavala said

“That would account for theflat and sht catch”

“The pincers allow the AUV to cut its way through tangled nets,” Zavala said “It was used by a Chinese company, Pyramid Seafood Exports”

“Chinese? That’s significant The men who attacked the ship were Asian The weapons they carried were Chinese”

“I Googled the nahai, but they’re a global company”