: Bruce Pinkos
: Echo's Beneath the Waves
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: 9781667822112
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 342
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On a routine scientific passage the crew of a large container ship experience severe weather. The cargo that they were conducting experiments on has now taken on a highly magnified importance due to increasing global tensions. Survival of the crew and their work is now going to be of vital importance to the entire world's population.

Chapter 1


 


 


Ships log of theNeiaresailing out of Balao’s port off the coast of Ecuador.

Written by Gerald Gross:

Estimated log starting date July 23 /1994. 9.00 AM


I have been nominated by the remaining surviving crew listed below to pass on these messages. Too any persons who should find this log, and therefore we will assume none of the ship’s crew is still alive, please relay these words to our loved ones. To our families and friends, we have clung to our lives and embraced it. We have come to understand the true value of life. We all hope that you are able to live your lives in happiness and good health for as long as God allows. God bless you; we will miss you, and we love you all.

Gerald Gross

John and Tanya Miller

Brenda Lockmeyer

Roberto Canasta

Michelle Ameda

Emilo Varass

Nina Castillo

Marisa Rodriguez

Dr. Nicolas Martin

 

I am beginning this log two days after the breakup and subsequent sinking of this giant ship. We had used it as a glass domed test garden for plant life now but in its first years of duty it was a liquid natural gas transporter otherwise known as an LNG ship. We retained its originally christened nameNeiare.Many of our family and friends are not aware of the work that we have been involved in. Most of you only know that we work in South America farming on land and going to sea for the other part of our jobs. I hope to give you some small scope of understanding for our last days alive and our surroundings before our deaths.

We are all still feeling some remnants of disbelief and shock that the ship has gone down and left us trapped under the sea. TheNeiarecould have been a replica of a small oil tanker. It appeared so immenseto us all that the thought of it sinking had never dawned on any of the crew that were not experienced sailors.

To the best of our knowledge, we are the only remaining people alive from the original 28-member listed ship’s crew and Agricultural staff that left port on July 3rd.

It appears now that we have some small chance of surviving another day. I am writing this log for our loved ones who no doubt will be reading it one day after our deaths. It’s our hope that l