That's true." She sobered. "I'll need a copy of the contract. I'm willing to sign an NDA, but I need time to review both the NDA and the contract with my lawyer." Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. Mermaid Problem: The sirens terrorizing the Melusine are all male. This still presents a question of how they reproduce with the kaiju-sized female. If it’s anything like how actual anglerfish reproduce, than it doesn’t bode well for any of the males… Jacques and Michi Abney. Big game hunters. Husband-wife. He is French-Canadian, she is Japanese-Australian. Want the first verified kill of a mermaid. Shunned by the scientists, initially. The Reveal: Near the end of the story, it's shown that sirens possess Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism and the female is a Kaiju sized monster.

Into the Drowning Deep - Goodreads Into the Drowning Deep - Goodreads

All that said, I'd highly recommend it to anyone who happens to have an interest in oceans and urban fantasy, although I'm still kind of pissed about the dolphins.At the Mariana Trench, Heather Wilson attempts to become the first human to reach the Challenger Deep in a submersible. She is killed by mermaids, proving their existence. Theodore captures a mermaid and keeps it in a tank. Over the course of several days, scouting parties of mermaids kill several crew members. Olivia and Tory begin a romantic relationship. The ship is then swarmed by mermaids, resulting in the deaths of most of the crew members. As the ship's safety systems fail, Dr. Toth works to unravel the mysteries of mermaid physiology and save the remaining crew. Hallie Wilson learns to communicate with the captive mermaid via sign language, which saves several crew members from being eaten. Tory realizes that all of the mermaids are actually male, and that the female is a ship-sized behemoth who is slowly moving toward the ship. She uses undersea lights to repel the female, and Olivia helps repair the ship's dysfunctional safety shutters. The surviving crew members are rescued days later.

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If we're successful, there will be a documentary. My employers are very good at managing the details." Officially, Imagine's position remains the same as always--for now. But you're not blind, you're not stupid, and you're the one who told them what they were looking for. You knew those things were real the second you saw the recording. Even if Imagine had wanted to make up a monster story to cover for the loss of a very real group of people, they wouldn't have been able to do such a good job in such a short amount of time. CGI ages poorly. That technology, too, has marched on. If there was something in those tapes for the world to discredit, it would have happened already. The fact that it hasn't should be proof enough of what happened on the Atargatis, no matter what Imagine says to the media. It wasn't a stunt, it wasn't a mistake, and there's been no cover-up. The world just doesn't like the answers we've been able to provide." This is an energetic book that starts at high velocity and never lets up. There is so much emotion rushing under the skin of every moment. I was antsy and uncertain throughout, a pendulum swinging between anticipation and dread, as if I were feeling the same weight of hungry eyes on me and the sense of having to be wary as the characters. The parenthetical asides were a smart addition, making the reader pay attention to every single detail, mining for clues everywhere.

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Around the boat, the sea is getting lighter, like the sun is rising from below. The camera continues to roll. The cameraman continues to run. Olivia Sanderson, autistic lesbian geek goddess and Imagine Entertainment news personality, who has come to a point with her ambition where she could either give it up or give up everything else, and has chosen the latter. Driven to Suicide: Subverted with David from the novella, the first mate of the Atargatis. He was attempting to communicate with the sirens, but they mistook his attempts as him offering to be eaten by them. He dies instantly from drowning before they begin to tear him apart.