No Escape by Grace Hamilton

Author:Grace Hamilton [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798375804989
Amazon: B0BQRLQBTG
Goodreads: 75376986
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00

15

Curtis moved the small beam of light across the unfolded page, trying to make sense of the intricate maze of tiny lines, loops, and squiggles. Kay was standing beside him, leaning against the edge of the table. Sadie and Jamal were sitting at the table, leaning over the array of papers from Ronny’s Mako files. It was hot and muggy down in the bowels of the oil platform, and he was sweating profusely. He dabbed his forehead with his sleeve before settling the light on a small but intricate sketch in one corner of the page.

“We’ve rigged explosives above the ceiling,” he said, “and beneath the crane, in the walls behind the workshop, plus the ones in the control room. They’ll do a heck of a lot of damage, but I don’t think we’re going to bring down this whole platform.”

“What about here?” Jamal said, tapping a drawing that seemed to be of the petroleum storage tanks. “If we destroyed the supports beneath these large tanks here, would the weight of them be enough to crash through all levels and destabilize the lower deck?”

Curtis glanced at Kay, who was furiously chewing her lower lip. “I doubt it,” she said. “Honestly, I think we’re just avoiding the inevitable here. We’re dancing around the main issue because it’s going to be potentially quite dangerous.”

“What are we avoiding?” Curtis said, turning to her.

“You’re already aiming your flashlight at it,” Kay said, pointing at the sketch in the corner that he had illuminated. It was a precise little drawing that showed the arrangement of support posts beneath the platform. Her point was clear, and Curtis realized she was right. He had been avoiding thinking about the inevitable.

Curtis was actually quite impressed with the trigger mechanism they’d come up with. After opening one of the simple triggers from the tub, they’d discovered that they were, in fact, electronic and battery-operated, not mechanical. Luckily, they’d been stored in a metal box, which had kept them safe from the EMPs. From there, working together, they’d come up with a design for wiring one of the AILS radios to the trigger. Once activated, a loud enough sound from a second radio on the right frequency should activate the trigger. Curtis had thought up the design himself. He thought his father, being a former electrician, would be proud of it.

Sadie turned the paper forty-five degrees so she could see the illuminated sketch the right way up. “You’re saying we’ve got to get down at the water level and put explosives on the supports,” she said. “That’s the only sure way to bring it all down.”

“I think we’ll need to wrap some explosive in plastic and place them below the water level on each support,” Kay said. “And then we’ll need to add a few more above the posts as well to weaken the underside of the deck. That way, when the posts break, it’ll take everything down with it, and there won’t be anything sticking above the water. If you really want to bring this place down, that is as thorough as you can be.

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