Clive Cussler · 1996 · global

Clive Cussler's 1996 Dirk Pitt adventure. When seals and dolphins begin dying in droves and a cruise ship's passengers are found dead near Antarctica, NUMA's Dirk Pitt traces the plague to a ruthless diamond tycoon whose sound-wave mining is killing the seas. The hunt runs from the ice of Seymour Island to a Canadian mine and across the Pacific to the villain's island fortress near Australia.

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   Seymour Island

   Off the ice of Seymour Island in Antarctica, a cruise ship's passengers are found dead and the sea life is dying. Dirk Pitt rescues a stranded naturalist, Maeve Fletcher, and begins to hunt the cause of the plague.

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   Kunghit Island

   The trail leads to a high-security diamond mine on Kunghit Island off the coast of Canada, where Pitt slips ashore to uncover a revolutionary and deadly mining method - sound waves that tear through the earth and poison the oceans.

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   Wellington

   Borrowing the Navy's sonar net, NUMA finds the acoustic plague is a convergence of sound from four mines around the Pacific. Pitt reaches a NUMA ship at Wellington to mount a raid on the tycoon's private island.

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   Gladiator Island

   On Dorsett's fortress of Gladiator Island near Australia, Pitt races to shut down the mine before its shock waves converge on a crowded shipping lane - and to save Maeve's twin sons, held hostage by her own ruthless father.