Ice Fire: A Jock Boucher Thriller - Plot & Excerpts
Mae said. “Depth sixteen hundred meters. I’m switching on the outside lights.” All eyes were on the three separate monitors as the ocean floor seemed to rise up to meet them. There was no visible sign of life. What the shafts of light revealed could have been barren desert, but for what looked like bubbles floating a few feet above the surface. Then the bubbles began to change shape. Mae maneuvered a light at one and it vanished, then reappeared in a different color, a translucent pink. Boucher watched as two of the bubbles made contact and became one; whether one popped or the two merged, he couldn’t say. He turned to his porthole and as he did a transparent squidlike creature over three feet long fluttered in and out of his field of vision, inches away from the shell that protected them from the crushing pressure at this depth. “We are on the side of the Carolina Trough,” Mae said for Boucher’s benefit. “It’s pretty flat right here, but there’s a steep drop off our starboard side.
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