Her boat wasn't where it should have been,and nor was the ancient Roman
submersible pens that she had anchored the boat nearby.
Marina could see no coast and the fog would have disoriented her anyway.
The lighthouse that would have been near the ancient Roman submersible wharves had vanished.nor was that foghorn blaring away.
Marina tried to remember the charts for the area.
Archaeologists had found the rotted remains of a ancient Roman submersible in 33 feet feet of water and Maria knew the marker buoy that marked out the location of the wreck was a orange and white colour.
She did a desperate turn in the water looking for a orange or white colour.
There was no such object.
However she saw a dim flicker of red light in the fog and desperately swam towards it.
However the distance was too great and Marina slipped beneath the waves,
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Captain Octavius Caligula,the nephew of the deposed Emperor Caligula had the good
Roman trieme submersible Black Dracaena
up on the surface,scanning the horizon for Carthagian pirates.
All around the wood hulled diving craft the porpoises that normally were quiet began chittering and
banging against the hull,to get the attention of the humans aboard her.
Octavious looked in the direction the dolphins were
racing towards and just saw a slight flash of gold before it slipped away.
The Captain leapt through the hatchway and barked out orders to the
Drum Master and soon convicted Christians,gladiators and freedmen were heaving at the huge crank that turned the
Black Dracaena's screw and the submerible leapt into movement
Octavius knew they'd never get her moving fast enough so he
ran down to the ships apothecary and asked Circe's daughter
to give him a merman shapeshifting
potion.
Then he glugged the stuff down and leapt through the moon pool and out the bottom hole in the hull just
as the potion kicked in.
Sprouting a fishes tail,he joined the dolphins in their mad dash
towards the possessor
of the gold medallion