Somewhere in all this someone named Mike was drinking all the water and going lizardy.
So Mike drank to his hearts content and the oceans,lakes and sea level drooped
200 feet.
That certainly increased th surface area of land
and the whales,fish and lobsters made a hasty retreat to
anything deeper then
200 feet.
The town of 6,400 had been sitting near a veritable ship graveyard
and after Mike had finisghed drinking up water
and spewing it into the upper Earth atmosphere
the towns folk stared at mile after mile of sea bottom,with the odd wreck poking out of the mud.
Dick and Jane had been out on the beach playing with their plastic pails
and shovels when Mike
performed his Herculean labour
and the two kids clapped their hands and
pointed excitedly at the wrecked pirate ship sitting on a
rocky reef a mere three hundred feet away from them.
Ignoring their parents shouts the two children ran over pebble,mud and rock till they
got to the pirate wreck.
There
peering at them through a whole in its side
was a blonde haired mermaid.