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"Apples, granola bars, carrots and herbal ice tea You have your choice between hummus and avocado sandwiches It's what I call a healthy lunch"

Every man on the boat looked at each of the others with utter horror She couldn't have received atheir services as diaper changers at a day-care center Out of deference to Julia none of the ative, since she went to the bother of fixing lunch The fact that she was a woentlemen added to the dilemma Giordino, however, did not come from the old school He complained vociferously

"Hu to throw -"

"I have a reading on theon the sonar?"

"My sonar towfish is trailing farther astern than yourbehind yours"

Julia leaned closer to the sonar's printer in anticipation of seeing an object appear froan to move across the video display and the printer simultaneously

"A ship!" Julia shouted excitedly "It's a ship!"

"But not the one we're after," Pitt said flatly "She's an old sailing ship sitting straight up off the bottom"

Wilbanks leaned around the others to peer at the sunken ship "Look at that detail The cabins, the hatch covers, the bowsprit, they all show clearly"

"Her one," observed Hall

"Probably swept away by the same storm that sank her," said Pitt

The ship had passed behind the range of the towfish now, but Hall recalled its iet, and conifications "Good size," Hall said, studying the ie "At least a hundred and fifty feet"

"I can't help wondering about her crew," said Julia "I hope they were saved"

"Since she's relatively intact," said Wilbanks, "she one down pretty fast"

The moment of fascination quickly passed, and the search for the Princess Dou Wan continued The breeze had slowly veered fro on the stern of the boat An ore ship passed a few hundred yards away and rocked the Divercity in its wake At four o'clock in the afternoon, Wilbanks turned and looked at Pitt