CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
On the Sea Floor – At the Cable Repeter
I rejoined Ham at the Dive Console. “How’s Bill’s arm?” I asked.
“Bruised a bit, but no worse for wear,” Ham said.
I briefed him on what had transpired in the Wardroom, and told him to get set up for the next dive as soon as possible.
“I’ll keep Bill in the Can for this dive,” Ham said. “Let’s send Jer and Harry out with Ski in standby in the Outer Lock.”
I agreed, so we set it up that way, and Ham got the guys ready for the next excursion.
The Bat Cave brought the Basketball inside for a new film cassette. We had everything on videotape, but that stuff was pretty grainy. For any real intelligence use, they needed film. By the time the Divers were ready for the next excursion, the Basketball was back in the water, hovering by
