Category: U-Boat

The common phrase for it is coma, but without any head scans or MRI testing it could be as bad as “vegetable” status. Ventilators hum and whirr in a low pitch as they draw in air and push it into the lungs, the chest rising and falling rhythmically. Beside Pauls head the small electronic cardio…

The rest of Salvage Team was picked up before the hour ended and with far less excitement. Sloshing gently on the ocean, the ship was steady enough for Ke to climb aboard first and then help Perry and Wells on load the cumbersome black chest. Coasties began to look at them with a mixture of…

An orange rescue floaty slapped the surface of the water just out of Toms reach. His abdomen felt made of wood, pain spreading down to his legs and up his neck. The closer Tom got to the floating tug the louder the cheers came from the Coasties encouraging him from the deck. Pauls arms and…

Toms head broke the surface, the momentum of the rapid ascent ballon ripping him torso and up out of the water and casting him rag doll to the side. From a glance it might have looked like he was trying to imitate a breaching whale. His hands grasped out at nothing to steady himself in…

The brothers seemed to barely acknowledge that they had just appeared from a nearly century old U-boat with what appeared to be a treasure chest. In fact, they seemed to be very much interested in ingoring those details. The pair of them was kicking fast and hard straight up, the rest of the Salvage Team was rushing…

Water muffles some sounds in its depths, other sounds it seems enhance. The roiling mechanical purr of power had been accompanied by piercingly distinct clanks and clatters that seemed to thump in the chests of Salvage Team. Perry had frantically gotten the team rallied near him catty corner to the rolling mass of haunting light…

Language is a powerful tool, even birds figured out how to manage pitches and tunes to act as a call to mates or a warning to others. Having language severed from him, Paul was in a dizzying sort of confusion. The entire world around him was alien and the one contact he had, his brother,…

Ke glared into the black. Her experience underwater had fine tuned her skills in seeking out body shapes in unlikely places, but she was paranoid about how the old school diving suits might confuse her ability to quickly spot human silhouettes. She continued listing her bag of tricks in her mind, making the mental inventory…

Pauls hand came back to his side and the brothers stood like convicts before the gallows. The silver buckled diver folded the small fabric chart and turned to tuck it gingerly into a wooden shelf positioned ackwardly among the control panels and gauges. The carpentry of the little shelf was a little rugged, the nailheads…

Three descending lights cast bright white patches around the murk and mud below. The sea had kicked up a fine mist of dust in the darkness which hindered their eyes from seeing the hull until they were perhaps twenty feet above. Perry’s voice took command in their ears. “Fan out and circle it counter clock…