< previous page page_11 next page >

Page 11
Chapter One
The Northwest Territories/
61.07 N 89.90 W/
December 5
853e4b9c19f5826e1f89c698126f2ff9.gif
Jacob and Anna Neville, noted Canadian-American team of nature photographers, are at work in the Canadian Northwest Territories gathering material for a series of articles and a possible television documentary on the effects of nuclear waste disposal on northern wildlife. The television project will be funded by the Canadian Committee for Nuclear Disinvestment.
THE GREENSHIELD NEWSLETTER
The Device, a much modified SSN-18, rises from its launcher. The six divers attach tethers and guidelines and hover in the icy water as the Device floats clear of the Pravda.
The launcher utters a hydraulic hiss and emits a stream of air bubbles. To Arkady Karmann, overseer of the diving crew, the submarine, an old Hotel III-class SSBN, resembles a monster of the deep sea giving birth.
The Device, with its zero buoyancy, is guided clear of the

 
< previous page page_11 next page >