Atomic Swarm by Atomic Swarm (mobi)

Author:Atomic Swarm (mobi)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group UK
Published: 2009-12-06T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

The sensation of forcibly regurgitating a seal was a new one for the shark.

As the huge animal hurtled downwards and the reel ran out of line, the force jerked the mock bait and hook clean out of its stomach.

‘He’s loose, damn it!’ shouted Salty, the metal rod whipping back as all the tension went from it.

The professor felt a surge of fear race through his body. He’d been scared when he had entered the water, but this was different. It was as if his body knew something he didn’t. In any other circumstances he would have stopped and turned round to confirm what his senses were telling him, that a shark was following him. But his daughter was down there and he simply had to get to her.

There are between seventy and a hundred recorded shark attacks a year, he told himself as he swam desperately downwards. And, of those, an average of eight are considered fatal. The odds are in my favour, he thought. Keep swimming.

Brooke saw things differently. As her father finally reached her, the shark was less than a few metres behind him, jaws agape and closing at terrific speed. She grabbed the straps on J.P.’s back and used them to heave him into the space behind Verne. With one quick thrust of its tail, the shark collided with the white robot, its gaping jaws clamping down on it like a steam press, ripping it from in front of J.P. and Brooke.

With a fast flurry of bites and twists, the shark soon worked out that the ball of syntactic foam and complex alloys wouldn’t make for easy digesting and let Verne fall from its mouth. It then turned into a sweeping arc that it intended would bring it back to the rock face with enough momentum to make it into the cave. 145

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