That was the first mistake.
“Talk to me, Diaz,” she said, staring at the holographic display of the crust below. astro offshore
“Report!” she screamed.
He did it. With a manual override that required him to physically shunt a circuit breaker, he released the clutch. The rig screamed . The massive carbon nanotube cable, still attached to the buried drill head, began to unravel. The torque slammed the Astro Offshore 9 into a brutal spin. Men and women slammed against bulkheads. A coffee mug shattered into a cloud of sharp, brown crystals. That was the first mistake
Silence. Only the hiss of escaping oxygen. ” she said
Diaz stared at her. “That’s insane. The cable will whip. It’ll cut the rig in half.”
Then the world tilted.