Fifty-Six
Saturday, May 28
USS Bougainville, Offshore from Moloka‘i
Jose awoke from a nap to noise and light in the hold. The well deck was being lowered. Oh no. They were going to take the dolphins out again to search for the dragon. He rose from his cot and ran to the inflatable pools where the dolphins were kept.
But the men who’d opened the well deck weren’t the EOD team from before, nor did they seem to have any interest in the dolphins. These men looked like security guards or policemen, complete with uniforms and guns. They didn’t bother with flooding the well deck but just carried out the Zodiacs to the water, zipping away as if in a hurry, leaving Jose and the dolphins behind.
Jose didn’t know what was going on, but he saw an opportunity. The well deck ramp was still down, an
