Everyone turned to face the ocean. “My expertise was in water contamination. Finding imbalances and cleaning up messes made by humans. But if this is some kind of natural planetary cycle, like an ice age or changing temperature in the planet’s core, I’m not sure we can do anything to save the animals here.”
“At least the planet is not inhabited. That would a much larger problem,” Giram said.
I shrugged, not wanting to argue with a huge alien I barely knew. But to me, an extinction event on this planet—on any planet—was a large problem. “Can I go and collect some samples from the water?”
Rachel nodded. “Absolutely. I’ll run some data on ice formation and temperatures.”
“I want to go under and look around.”
“Under?” Giram asked, wide-eyed.
I nodded, tapped the glass of my helmet. “It’s
