Gold From Crete
“This discussion dealt with the sort of technical point the solution of which was the task of those highly trained staff officers specifically assigned to him for the purpose; but he knew enough of the subject to take part-in the argument.‘Nothing here worth mentioning, sir,’ said Rowles. ‘Of course, there may be a casual freak.’‘Wrecks?’ asked Holby.‘Plenty of those,’ admitted Rowles.The flotilla was creeping through the night, guided by the most minute physical influences imaginable - too minute really for the human imagination to grasp, thought Crowe; the merest echoes of something already beyond human senses. They were trailing a submarine. Somewhere inside HMS Apache a skilled rating was sending out sound waves into the sea with an apparatus that had never been thought of before Crowe became captain. It was all very difficult, for these sound waves were not the sort that one could hear; they were too high-pitched for that. Crowe could remember being shown a dog whistle once which ...blew a note too high for the human ear, but which yet could be heard by a dog.MoreLess
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