THE OCEAN'S DEPTH
Doctor Carole Mendez along with four others from her team have been switching back and forth with the Institute's diving bell that was developed in the Mexico City Institute. Doctor Mendez aged 45 years old along with her husband Daniel with funding from the United States Government and Admiral Harriman Nelson.
It's been her job and the others in search of minerals needed from the ocean's floor in the South Pacific and North Atlantic. These precise metals are needed for the Lunar missions, the Space Station, and most of all the space program developed by a small team of Russians.
Up above the surface of the South Pacific, the large science vessel the Caroline had been monitoring the three diving bells alternating every 12 hours, and this time Doctor Andres of the Africa Mini Institute was collecting samples when all of a sudden the ocean floor started to shake with measurements on the Richter scale of 6 for the most part.
Doctor Andres this time was alone on the bell since his partner was above resting in his sleeping quarters. He would feel the shake of the ocean floor not realizing that the bell was being sucked into it throwing him off several miles. Coming to his senses not knowing whether the team on the Caroline was able to track the bell and himself. What was great about it was the fact that his heart rate had been hooked up to a device on his chest.
To those on board the Caroline, he was mostly still alive. However, the tracking system had gone out both on the bell and the Caroline to confuse them. They just didn't have the time to search for him needing help from the Nelson's Institute having the proper equipment and flying subs to search for Doctor Andres.
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Doctor Mendez had been resting in her quarters on the Caroline when the Captain of the vessel Julius Randall with the Caroline for the past five years. She had asked the captain to send private coded communications to Admiral Nelson of the Institute in Santa Barbara, California.
The young communications officer Chaz was a little bit nervous about having to send the coded message. In the background, there was a loud boom coming from a thunder and lightning squab storm that would last only 15 minutes to have everyone hiding.
However, the rescue team had to be ready in case the Nelson Institute was unable to help them out right away with the diving bell and flying subs.
But in the meantime, Doctor Andres is on board the diving bell having been swept away from the underground quakes. Touching his head inside as he was coming around from being sent off several miles away. The lighting inside the bell was at a minimum telling him that the power cells inside were beginning to be going on him and helpless unable to know what was happening with him and the bell.
Reaching for the communications scanner he can see that the power cell was low. He was going to be trying his best to send an S.O.S. TO whoever could pick up the signal.
He took a deep breath inside as the oxygen was beginning to go soon. He decided to use the air masks that were stored in one of the containers of the bell. He had no idea just how long his oxygen was going to last.
He continued to send the message for a few moments while he needed rest with the oxygen level slowly going. He was hoping that someone in the area would be able to understand his message and try to rescue him.
On board the Caroline it was at this point that Chaz scanned his entire board when he was able to pick up the frequency of the distress call. Excited as his heart rate began to pick up Chaz called the captain and the team from the institute telling them that by waking Doctor Mendez he was able to pick up the distress signal from the bell.
Doctor Mendez in her pajamas and black robe wearing very little makeup alongside her husband asked Chaz to send that message to the Nelson Institute asking how long it was going to take.