The Great White Red Alert

By Geoffrey T Williams

"This is a Red Alert. This is not a test..."
Pirates are defying international laws and killing Great White sharks off South Africa's coast.
Tyler and Alena Worthy are scuba diving in Santa Barbara when they get the emergency call. The twins head up the Aquatic Investigative unit of the Save Our Seas Foundation. Their mission: help preserve the fragile environmental balance in the world's oceans - no matter where it takes them, now matter how dangerous the mission is.
They have the help of local SOS members, a submarine full of high-tech gadgets, and their scuba-diving dog Brutus.
In seas swirling with more Great Whites than they've ever seen, the AI team confronts the outlaws, who are led by a mysterious person known only as Poison Flower. But which do they need to fear most - the pirates, or the sharks?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoffrey T Williams
• Release date: Jul 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476093796

Geoffrey T Williams

My love of science started when my geologist father told me a rock I had found in the back yard of our Wyoming house was a dinosaur bone. Fast-forward some years, and I wrote a short book called "Dinosaur World" and produced the cassette tape that went along with it. Thanks to a small publishing company named Price Stern Sloan, the book and tape went "viral," selling tens of thousands of copies in just a few months. That success led to the other Dinosaur World volumes, which eventually sold more than eight million copies. From that I branched out to write about other sciences I loved, including astronomy and space travel, entomology, oceanography, etc. And since I love producing audio, almost all the books included cassette tapes, and later, CDs.

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The Great White Red Alert

By Geoffrey T. Williams

Illustrated by The Artful Doodlers – Photography by Tom Campbell

©2008 Jokar Productions – Smashwords Edition

Published by Save Our Seas Limited

Table of Contents

Face Off

Shark Fin Soup

Rumors and Guesses

Arky Aloft

Hot Pursuit

Unfriendly Fire

Missing in Action

Poison Flower

A Rescue Plan

Pure Poison

The Hunt

Mixed Messages

The Hunters Hunted

Payback

Rewards

Glossary

About the Author

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Chapter 1 – Face Off

The emergency alert came at a bad time.

Of course, there’s never a good time to find out someone is destroying the ocean in some far-flung corner of the world. But, for Alena, the timing couldn’t have been worse.

The great white shark could have told you...

The twins, Alena and Tyler Worthy, had taken their big hydroplane, the Sea Worthy, across the Santa Barbara Channel to San Miguel Island for a Saturday of diving and research.

Tyler parked the boat between Point Bennet and Castle Rock at the western tip of the island. A light breeze was clearing the early morning fog. It was going to be a warm day. Tyler looked around, grinning.

We’re going to have lots of company in the water, he said.

The beach and rocks were almost invisible beneath the shiny, squirming bodies of thousands of pinnipeds—commonly known as seals and sea lions. The water around the boat was dotted with dark heads bobbing up and down as they hunted breakfast.

Are we taking the Nous Venons? Tyler asked his sister. Nous venons is French for we’re coming, and was the name of their small, sleek, and very fast personal submarine, currently stowed below, in the large hold of the hydroplane.

No. Just the scuba tanks, Alena replied. I just need to get some kelp and bottom samples.

Great, Tyler said. I’ll shoot some video to update the website.

In case you’re wondering why two high school kids have a hydroplane, a personal submarine, and other very special equipment, it’s easy enough to explain: it was all supplied by the Save Our Seas Foundation. The twins are two of