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“Have you checked out the canyon where the lab was prospecting for jellyfish?” asked Campbell

“Yeah It’s a few hundred yards from the site I dove down into it a couple hundred feet The canyon goes down forever Saw a few bluearound, but that was it I could dive deeper, but I’ve heard that the definition of insanity is repeating the same useless action over and over”

“Come up for air, then,” said Campbell “We’ll call the Concord and fill Captain Dixon in-Hold on, Joe Call for you coh”

After a moment or two, a female voice came over Zavala’s earphones

“How’s your search going, Joe?”

“Hi, Gamay, nice to hear from you I’ve picked a piece of the support ship off the bottom, but that’s it How about you?”

“We ,” she said “We tried to contact Kurt but the call wouldn’t go through, so we tracked you down under the sea Paul and I came across the coordinates for a place called Trouble Island It’s about a hundred miles from the lab site It may be where the crew of the Princess underwent theirlab, but maybe it will help”

“Give the captain the info,” he said, “and I’ll cos out”

“We’re on our way back to Washington,” she said “Call if you need anything at this end”

Zavala thanked Gamay and Paul, then pointed the nose of the submersible toward the surface and powered the thrusters A crane aiting to hoist it from the water onto the deck of the NUMA ship

Zavala popped the hatch, clie Captain Ca over the chart table He pointed to a speck on a chart of Micronesian waters

“This is the atoll closest to the position your friends gave me,” Campbell said “Doesn’t look like le, which means it was searched visually What do you think?”

Zavala pondered the captain’s question, then said, “I think I need to talk to an expert”

A few ational unit that supplied the agency’s ide expeditions with up-to-date navigational information

“Let me see if I understand,” said thewo for a Pacific island that is no longer on the charts and you don’t know if it even existed in the first place”