03 Underwater Adventure
“‘But there’s one valve missing. I’ll get it’ He went down the companionway to the storeroom. Roger was at the bow, attracted by the flashing of a porpoise. Hal was busy inspecting his suit. So there was no one to notice when Skink went to the scuppers where the scorpion had lodged, picked it up deftly by the tail, and dropped it inside the copper helmet.
Blake returned, and with Skink’s help lifted the weighty helmet, let it down over Hal’s head, and locked it to the suit.
The pump was started ...and air began to come through the hose into the helmet. Hal peered out between iron bars through the narrow window and felt like a prisoner in a death cell. The sun beating upon the suit and the metal helmet made him feel faint.
Was he going to collapse before he even got into the water? Then what would Blake think of him?
All told, the helmet, suit, and boots weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. It was as if he were trying to carry a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound man. The perspiration rolled down his face.MoreLess
Blake returned, and with Skink’s help lifted the weighty helmet, let it down over Hal’s head, and locked it to the suit.
The pump was started ...and air began to come through the hose into the helmet. Hal peered out between iron bars through the narrow window and felt like a prisoner in a death cell. The sun beating upon the suit and the metal helmet made him feel faint.
Was he going to collapse before he even got into the water? Then what would Blake think of him?
All told, the helmet, suit, and boots weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. It was as if he were trying to carry a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound man. The perspiration rolled down his face.MoreLess
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