"Bill Nagle's life changed the day a fisherman sat beside him in a ramshackle bar and told him about a mystery he had found lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean." Chapter 1, p. 3.

"Deep-shipwreck diving is among the world's most dangerous sports. Few other endeavors exist in which nature, biology, equipment, instinct and object conspire—without warning and from all directions—to so completely attack a man's mind and disassemble his spirit." Chapter 2, p. 22.

"He closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again. The shape was still there. Fins. Propeller. Cigar body. A shape from scary books and terrifying movies. A shape left over from childhood's imagination. A shape of power. A torpedo." Chapter 3, p. 47.

"Skibinski grabbed Feldman and turned him around. Feldman's regulator fell from his mouth. His eyes were not blinking. Skibinski looked deeper into his friend's mask, but Feldman just...