No such luck: the currents push back on Julie as she moves between the tanks while monitoring the Jordans, forcing her to use oxygen at an elevated rate.
Up top the current was swift, but she hoped it would be calm a hundred feet down.
Julie's oxygen supply should last well beyond the twenty minutes scheduled for fishing, and the Jordans have "pony" tanks to stay longer if they choose, but from the moment the anchor touches down, Julie senses danger. Sunlight fades as Julie and the Jordans near the seafloor and set anchor for their return trip. She suits up and readies for the plunge.īelow the waves is a dim, surreal world. Jordan and Shane will take her seriously, but Julie is in better shape to do this than her father, and he desperately needs the money. Sims bows out of leading the expedition for health reasons, and asks Julie to take the Jordans down. His son Shane, a schoolmate of Julie's before her parents divorced and she moved with her mother to live in Atlanta most of the time, also resents instruction. Jordan doesn't seem disposed to listen to instructions, and that's dangerous when you're heading a hundred feet underwater. Sims's dive shop, but Julie has mixed feelings. Jordan paid four times the usual rate for this dive. The tanks promise to be a fertile fishing spot, which is why Mr. Submerged vehicles morph into artificial reefs over time, havens for aquatic wildlife. The client is Hank Jordan, a businessman interested in exploring a pair of military tanks Julie's father towed out to sea a while ago and let sink a hundred feet below the surface. Her father is a seasoned divemaster and has taught Julie much of what he knows, but he isn't feeling well today, and that's no good for diving. Twelve-year-old Julie Sims has an ominous feeling the day she and her father, who runs a dive shop, take a client out on the waters off the coast of Gulf Shores, Alabama. High-octane thrillers are rare in juvenile literature, but Watt Key has a reputation as a transcendent novelist, and he uses his talent for all it's worth in Deep Water.
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