The Devil Fish

By Geoffrey T Williams

The Net of death...
The blue waters around Isla Roca Partida are a paradise for divers - but they can also be a deathtrap for helpless sea creatures. In their latest SOS adventure, twins Alena and Tyler Worthy - along with their friend Xochitl - track a pair of magnificent giant manta rays from Mexico's Sea of Cortez to the islands off the coast of Baja California. Save Our Seas Foundation satellites have spotted a deadly drift net near one of the islands and the mantas are heading straight for it. The team will need all their courage, ingenuity, intelligence, and technology - plus help from a very surprising source if they hope to save the mantas - and themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoffrey T Williams
• Release date: Jul 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476140155

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 Devil Fish

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

Meeting with a Giant

Xochitl and the Voice of Adventure

A.I. On the Way

Return if the Devil Fish

Mustache Pete

Ghost Net

Travelling Companions

Needles and Haystacks

Arky II

Race

Lost and Found

Drifting Death

The Trail of Teardrops

Collision Course

Life or Death

In Harm’s Way

Magic Carpet Ride

Loose Ends

Glossary

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Chapter 1 – Meeting with a Giant

Tyler was a little nervous.

You might be too with a fifteen-meter shark swimming toward you with its nearly one-and-a-half-meter mouth wide open.

What would you do? Swim to get out of its way? Wave frantically to try and scare it off? Signal your dive buddy to come to your rescue?

Tyler, of course, did none of these things. He was right where he wanted to be—off Corralvo Island in the Sea of Cortez, Baja, California, staring adventure in the face.

He keyed the wireless microphone built into his full face mask. You see the size of this guy?

His twin sister Alena was floating on the surface nearby. "Actually, I think this guy is a girl. I hope you're getting her on tape."

The power-sled with the hi-definition video camera hovered in front of the boy, capturing every move of the biggest fish either of them had ever seen.

Gotta be close to fifteen meters long, he said. Good thing I'm not on her menu.

The shark's wide, flat head swiveled back and forth. As it opened and closed its huge mouth, it sucked in liters of seawater along with the countless tiny zooplankton that were on its menu. Zooplankton are microscopic animals that are a primary food source for some of the ocean's biggest animals such as humpback whales and whale sharks.

"You do a Jonah and get swallowed, his sister said, I'm not coming after you."

No chance, Tyler thought. Whale sharks are gentle giants—big, slow-moving, even sometimes curious around divers, and not dangerous. But she sure is big.