Deep Obsession
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As the patrol boat closed in on the Zodiac that carried Lee and Travers, the small craft suddenly veered to port and then pulled ahead in a bid to get as far from the other Zodiac as possible, thereby making it more difficult for the Cuban gun crew. Then unexpectedly, and to the utter astonishment of the men in the second Zodiac, they saw a huge flash at the side of the attacking vessel. The thought processes of each man went into tachy-sight syndrome. The men originally thought the patrol boat had been hit. But then everything seemed to slow down considerably. The cacophony of noise around them and the screams of their shipmates all became a slow, muffled, and tangled blur of disassociated sights and sounds. The Zodiac's back had been broken when it was violently upturned by an RPG launched from off the portside of the gun boat's bridge. The rocket propelled grenade found its mark. Limbs, torsos, and chunks of the heavy black rubber that was once a JTF2 Zodiac were thrown high into the air. Black smoke rose from the flotsam and occluded the vision of the men in the Zodiac that carried Lee and Travers. The gun boat veered sharply to starboard to avoid hitting a large piece of wreckage as it zipped through the area where the Zodiac had once been. The crew of the Cuban vessel savored a victory and intended to return to the base as heroes. With the taste of blood on their tongues, their boat steadily bore down on the other foreign rubber boat. The remaining Zodiac continued its seemingly fruitless attempts at ditching the patrol boat. Aside from their wet side-arms, the commandos in the Zodiac were now defenseless after losing their RPG launcher. The gun boat had now positioned itself off their port stern quarter. "Incoming!" Major General Harris shouted over his shoulder as he pointed to a white bubbly plume fishing its way just below the surface toward their starboard quarter.
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Through a series of seemingly unrelated events, the North American Bureau of Security has uncovered a joint Chinese-Cuban plot which threatens to destroy the lives of millions of North Americans, and alter the balance of power with a pathogenic terror pre-set for release, and concealed deep beneath the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes. International intrigue, sophisticated technology, underwater adventure, fast-paced action, a dash of romance, and a sprinkle of the supernatural, all inexorably blend together to hold you spellbound on a ride that will lift the veil off the fragility of world affairs in... DEEP OBSESSION!
About the Author
Mike L. Van Natter is a certified Divemaster with well over a thousand logged dives to his credit. He served as Chief Diver of the Fort Erie Underwater Recovery Unit for several years. Among the author's notable underwater achievements: he assisted in the removal of Canada's first underwater habitat, Sublimnos, from the waters of Georgian Bay near Tobermory, Ontario; he made a personal record breaking 250' wall dive off the southern coast of Cuba; he has dived the U-352, a German submarine that was sunk in 1942 in the shark-infested waters off North Carolina; he has dived the Cristóbal Colón, a Spanish warship sunk off the coast of Cuba during the 1898 Spanish- American War. In April 2014, he met and spoke with Mike Fletcher of Sea Hunters and Dive Detectives TV show fame about Deep Obsession. Mike also holds a 7th Dan Black Belt in Karate and is currently president of the Fort Erie Revolver Club. He and his British-born wife Gloria are avid history buffs, and have made several dive excursions to Caribbean destinations over the years, including several to Cuba. They currently reside in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada.