The Strode Venturer by Hammond Innes

Author:Hammond Innes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

I jumped out of bed, pulled on my shorts and padded down the alleyway and up the ladder to the wheelhouse. Peter was just ahead of me. 'What is it?' I heard him ask anxiously. 'What's happened?' And then Recce's voice: 'Breakers ahead. The lookout spotted them.'

'Breakers? How can there be breakers?'

The ship was steady as a rock, the sea flat calm.

They were out on the starboard bridge wing, their figures two black silhouettes against the peculiar luminosity. 'There, man. There. Do you see them? Straight over the bows.' Recce's voice was pitched high on a note of tension as he turned and called to the helmsman. 'Slow astern.' The engine-room telegraph rang and the bridge was juddered as the shaft turned and the screw threshed the water. There was no other sound; no sound of breakers, and yet there they were, straight over the bows, a long line of white water that made my eyeballs blink with the strain of watching the waves bursting against - what? Against coral reefs? Against some level heap that had suddenly reared itself up?

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