{"id":7082,"date":"2022-01-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?page_id=7082"},"modified":"2023-06-25T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:59:08","slug":"oods-excerpt-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/oods-excerpt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Excerpt from Out of Due Season: The First Transit\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Another%20Excerpt%20from%20Out%20of%20Due%20Season%3A%20The%20First%20Transit%C2%A0\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>The following excerpt is from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Xr9lmN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Out of Due Season: The First Transit<\/a><em>, which was released on February 8, 2022. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"chapter-two\">CHAPTER TWO<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuit up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The call came from the divemaster standing outside the command tent. The sun had not yet crested the horizon, but there was enough twilight available to get everything in order. Tied to a weather-beaten dock, the Zodiac was filled with marker buoys, sonar detectors, gear bags and whatever else might fit while leaving room for the four divers and their personal equipment. The Zodiac would deploy with the first two pairs while Clarke, acting as the beachmaster, would direct the team from the shore and the other two pairs would ready themselves for the second trip out. Stuart would be the divemaster in the water for the first trip, the man in charge and also the indisputable champion of body recovery\u2014if there was such a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first four divers quickly donned their dry suits. They had all eaten their share of calories the day before, hydrated as they needed to, and were ready to go. If the atmosphere could be called anything, however, it would be tense. Cold, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRemember that silt is the biggest problem in search operations.\u201d Stuart walked around each of the divers, closing their back-mounted zippers and looking over regulators, inflator hoses, neck and wrist seals, and other equipment. \u201cAvoid contact with the bottom. Try not to use fins when close to or vertical to the bottom. If you remember your anti-silting swim techniques\u2014head down, feet up\u2014I can go home a happy man. Maintain control of your buoyancy and don\u2019t you dare let any of your equipment drag the bottom. Clear?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three other divers responded in unison. \u201cClear!\u201d While this was a memorized speech, the team gave Stuart their full attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going in a circular pivot with a buddy line. The visibility is this side of non-existent, so you must use feel more than sight. Each one of you will be equipped with ten LED markers attached to a hundred-foot spool. Clip the line to a piece of your target that isn\u2019t going to dislodge, twist the marker and snap the CO2 cartridge. I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll use more than ten, but we have a good supply if you need more. Clear?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClear!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is not textbook, people. As you all saw yesterday, the flesh is not rigidly attached to the body. If anyone gets ill, gets nervous, loses yesterday\u2019s veggies, wonders if you\u2019re going to die down there, or feels trapped, give the tether line four quick pulls and surface. Willingness to stop, people. Have it. Clear?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClear!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stuart stopped circling the other divers and stood in front of them. He nodded, gave a thumbs up to Clarke standing to the side, and cracked a crooked smile. \u201cThirty minutes, rotate. We have four dives each. Then we can let the other four slackers have at it. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zachary Miller lifted his fins and scuba tank and turned toward the dock. Stuart, likewise, suited up, fell in step with the youngest member of the team and put a reassuring hand on the boy\u2019s shoulder. \u201cReady for this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zachary said nothing but looked toward the Zodiac and past to the markers which bobbed on the water in the middle of the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cListen,\u201d Stuart said, \u201cthere\u2019s a fine line between being ready and being scared, and it\u2019s natural to jump over to the scared side when faced with this. I can understand if you\u2019ve got thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThoughts?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, thoughts. We all saw the body pulled out yesterday, and I\u2019ll be the first to admit it wasn\u2019t a pretty sight. That\u2019s not to say the rest of them will look the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zachary nodded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKeep to the plan, do things by the numbers. You\u2019ve got a tether to the Zodiac and I\u2019ll tie off with you. I have the light, as much help as that will be. When we find the target, you can clip the marker and let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClip it where?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat will come to you. The other bodies were encased in weighted shoes, so you\u2019ll probably find a spot there. My guess is that there will be some article of clothing if you can\u2019t find a suitable place on the shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They both stepped onto the dock. The boards creaked with the combined weight of all four divers and their gear. The sun had yet to break the horizon, but it was closer, and the black rubber of the Zodiac glowed wet as it bobbed up and down. The pike pole was stowed portside in case a body dislodged and floated to the surface. There would be another time to recover the bodies once the survey was complete, and the team knew what they faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stuart was right: to call this a textbook operation was a misnomer. While it seemed that way at first, the discoveries of the other bodies the day before had all but destroyed the idea that this was just going to be another mission played out step by step. Stuart had a lot of experience recovering bodies, and he did so with the confidence and respect he earned. A body was a body and whether you pulled it from a mountain or a river or lodged between two rocks in an ice cave, it was still a textbook operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was not one of those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were no procedures for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust do me a favor,\u201d Stuart said as he patted Zachary once on the back and pushed him toward the watercraft. \u201cDon\u2019t panic down there and don\u2019t touch anything that might cloud the water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou mean the bodies, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stuart winked. \u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roar of the Yamaha two-stroke, twenty-five horsepower short shaft portable outboard engine disrupted the serenity of dawn on the lake. The sun crested the hills to the east just as the mooring line was cast off and the Zodiac, all of fifteen and a half feet long and filled with divers and gear, pulled away toward its destination. Clarke watched from a folding chair on the shore and absently rubbed his bald head. The temperature, typically coldest within eight minutes of sunrise, had dropped to the mid-thirties overnight. It was expected to jump into the fifties by noon, but cloud cover\u2014a near constant on the peninsula\u2014would keep it from climbing any higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holding a tin cup of coffee, Allen unfolded a second chair and sat down next to Clarke. For a moment, the two merely watched as the Zodiac made a slow trek toward the existing markers. A lack of sleep was not unusual, but today the caffeine had yet to perform as advertised. He would sleep well once the relief showed up and a new incident commander took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAny word from Seattle?\u201d Allen asked, with a loud sip of his coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe by sunset. They\u2019re pulling a team of seven off the riots and remobilizing.\u201d Clarke paused. \u201cOr so they said. I really don\u2019t think they care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen nodded. \u201cAll the crap going on in the world, it makes sitting on the edge of a lake filled with dead bodies feel serene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGood news, though,\u201d Clarke said. \u201cWe have a satellite uplink and Talbert has a lead on our Henry Backmon. Seems he went missing from Iowa about six months ago. Left behind a wife, two kids, a BMW, and a mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIowa? Seems like a long way to come for a swim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCedar Rapids. Electrical engineer working for a firm that develops electronics and communications technology for things that fly. Talbert pulled a few articles from the local rag and some other finds.\u201d Clarke handed a tablet to Allen. \u201cGot him looking for more, but you\u2019ll appreciate the first one. It\u2019s a blog article Backmon wrote praising some parts of the Unabomber\u2019s Manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen took the tablet. The screen showed the referenced article with a picture of a moose and the title \u201cUncle Ted was Right: The Industrial Revolution as Cancer.\u201d Allen squinted his eyes at the small print, a recent habit for old eyes. \u201cDid you read this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clarke shook his head. \u201cHe lost me after the first line. I don\u2019t think engineers were made to wax poetic. I have a thriller in the tent if I want literature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou and your thrillers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverything is nonfiction, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo you\u2019ve said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sound of the Zodiac\u2019s motor cut off and both Allen and Clarke looked up. The dive team had reached the marker buoys and moved about with purpose. Allen placed the tablet on the ground with his coffee cup. He picked up a pair of binoculars. The first two divers were hard to make out, but judging by the way one of them pointed, he assumed that one was Stuart, which meant the other was the rookie. They were checking each other over, tightening belts and picking up the LED markers. It was a quiet operation from the shore, but he imagined the bustle of activity sounded different where the action was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen was a diver who had pulled his share of dead bodies from the water over the past decade, but he had made a choice a few months ago that he would be more effective as an incident commander if he remained nearby and in contact with other authorities rather than in the water. It did not help that his vision had been degrading and he now felt his joints where before they just worked. Age sneaks up, pops you in the head and takes your lunch money. His team was comprised of mostly younger people, with the sole exception of Stuart, who was pushing sixty-five next month. It was demotivating for Allen to think of how fit the old guy was, and he tried to put it out of his mind frequently. Seeing him on the water now, however, did not help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen put the binoculars on the ground and picked up his coffee cup again. \u201cSo, we have a guy who runs off to join a cult, lives in a commune with other cult hippies lorded over by some guy they call \u2018The One\u2019 who likes to record things on archaic reel-to-reel tapes while rallying against technology and change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clarke picked up his radio. \u201cRecovery One, report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stuart\u2019s voice crackled through the two-way: \u201cOn scene, ready to dive. Alpha team in the water in one minute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRoger. Out.\u201d Clarke put the radio on his lap. \u201cI follow you so far.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFearing some FBI investigation and supposed manhunt, this \u2018One\u2019 says it\u2019s time to go. With no real fuss\u2014according to the tape, anyway\u2014Backmon and friends take a raft or canoe or something up the river to this lake, put on weighted shoes, and say goodbye to a cruel, cruel world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSounds reasonable. Not logical, but reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen looked toward the mouth of the river, then back to the marker buoys. \u201cSo, if they all jumped into the middle of the lake, where\u2019s the boat?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/short-stories-excerpts-and-other-things\/\">Read more Short Stories, Excerpts and Poems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All text copyright 2022, Benjamin X. 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