He picked up his warm coffee and sipped, letting his mind wander to his wife and girls at home, wondering if they were in bed yet. Sykes was a stickler for detail, as most were, but even the best commanders eventually fell prey to the unrelenting boredom of perfect routine. Not more than ten feet behind Walker stood Commander Sykes, reading through yet another fascinating maintenance report. But this one was strange a steady hum at a very low frequency and just barely within the range of human hearing. He couldn’t hear currents, though he had identified some natural occurrences that the computers could not. Some jockeys were rumored to be so good that they could identify the current moving through the coral, but those guys had spent their entire lives on their boats. He played the sound on his computer again and again, and still could not place it. He shifted in his seat and studied the computer screen in front of him. Walker had been listening to it for some time but couldn’t pin it down.

Even on a boring night like this, he knew exactly what surrounded them as they slid silently through the dark waters.īut what he was hearing tonight sounded odd. Eugene Walker would rather be a Ping Jockey than do any other job in the Navy. But for the few who could, it was surprising how attuned a human sense could become. Few people could sit in front of a computer screen, fighting monotony day after day, listening to the faintest of sounds through lonely ocean waters. He pressed the headphones in tighter against his ears. Now time is running out.and our understanding of the world is about to change forever. To make matters worse, someone from the inside is trying to stop them. Together they must piece together a dangerous puzzle, and the most frightening piece, is the trembling in Antarctica. However, when an unknown group immediately becomes interested in her work, Alison realizes John Clay may be the only person she can trust. One that was never supposed to be found.Īlison was sure she would never trust the military again. But the team discovers much more from their dolphins than they ever expected when a secret object is revealed on the ocean floor. With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with the planet's second smartest species. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history. ONE OF THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY.Ī SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND.ĪND A CATASTROPHE THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED.ĭeep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances.

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