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Michael double-checked as Bill took a final set of readings and then bottomed the submarine. They now lay thirty meters—a hundred feet—down and eight kilomters off the Azeri coast. The dim instrument lights on the small panel were the only things to look at while they waited.
The Triton-2M could carry up to six divers. It was a wet sub, but it allowed for pressure retention. So, inside the sub, Michael and Bill were only exposed to shallow water pressure and could rise without having to stop for decompression.
At thirty meters down, they were too deep to receive any signals from the surface. The reason they were here was that they would look like nothing more than a rock on the bottom of the sea to the Buyan missile corvette as it passed overhead. The Russians were unlikely to also b
