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1 " Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean "
― Steve Alten , Hell's Aquarium (Meg #4)
2 " venturing "
3 " tracking "
4 " UNIS "
5 " hydrothermal "
6 " Encompassing sixty million square miles, the Pacific Ocean is the largest and oldest body of water on our planet, and with an average depth of fourteen thousand feet, it is also the deepest, possessing some of the most biologically diverse creatures ever to inhabit the Earth. The Pacific is all that remains of the Panthalassa, an ancient "
7 " Kill her! Do it now! Gut her remains and sink the evidence, then fly home in a week "
8 " The taxi cab turns into Masao Tanaka Way, inching its way through a throng of protestors. The lone passenger stretched "
9 " nightmare "
10 " Then, Dr. Nichols sees it—the flat, brown object that he realizes is the submersible, the craft lurching along the surface in an awkward circle like a wounded "
11 " Brent Nichols hustles his burly frame from the far end of the Meg Pen to the western bleachers bordering the canal, his breath taken "
12 " hunters "
13 " plunges back into the aquarium, barely missing the half-inch steel cable still dangling from Jonas’s hand. "
14 " the Panthalassa. Harbored within this enclosed habitat is a thriving food chain that has sustained primitive "
15 " embryo from drying out. Sixty million "
16 " deepest, "
17 " taxi cab turns into Masao Tanaka Way, inching its way through a throng of protestors. The lone passenger stretched out in the backseat shakes "
18 " and their ability to ventilate their lungs, amphibians developed a "
19 " every creature "
20 " Nothing I can do. We lost the outriggers. I need the wheels free to engage the crankshaft. "
