The Praying Nun (Slave Shipwreck Saga Book 1) by Michael Smorenburg

Author:Michael Smorenburg [Smorenburg, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Novella / Adventure
Published: 2017-09-19T23:00:00+00:00

While all this was going on, I’d visit our wreck.

Well as I know every bottom feature here, and good as diving conditions are, I just cannot find the crack that hides my knife, the perlie, or the treasure that it’s keeping pinned in place for me.

This is the problem with this dive location. We are subject to the whim and in the gift of nature here.

The shifting sands of the area have both covered and protected the scant artefacts of the wreck from complete obliteration, but they also come and go with the fickle moods of the Atlantic.

There is a pattern to it, though. Big surf tends to denude the area of covering sand, stripping it down to the bedrock where fragments of the wreck are lodged into the boulder field. But periods of small wave conditions together with prevailing offshore winds tend to have the opposite effect, and cover the area with sand.

I have a hypothesis that the offshore winds are to both blame and thank for the sand covering. As they blow, they move a top layer of warm water out of the bay. The bay cannot of course keep emptying, so the warm water is replaced by cold water running in along the bottom of the ocean, tumbling sand ahead of it.

It’s an inbound conveyor, grain by grain, steadily filling the bay with frigid water and topping off the nooks and crannies with pure white beach sand, covering over our wood and steel wedged down there.

It’s a pointless task without proper pumps and costly equipment to attempt to dig down through a meter or more of the deposit to bedrock, but I doggedly keep trying.

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