The ship is submerged, the hull has been breached and over two hundred crew members are dead but for now we are safe. Everything trembles once in a while as they continue to ram into the ship, hoping to reach us in the emergency bunker.
We have maybe five hours of oxygen left before we have to strap into the dive suits and from there we've got another two hours. It feels a bit surreal to know that we'll all be dead in seven hours at most and if they haven't broken through before then. Nobody's thought about food or water, we doubt we'll have the luxury of starving to death.
We're sitting around 4 kilometers below sea level, balancing on the edge of a coastal shelf. I caught sight of the drop when we were running from the flooding - it's like looking up at the sky on a cloudy moonless night - pure voidlike darkness and we're poised to head straight down if they manage to nudge us off the ledge.
At least the pressure that will crush the ship will kill us faster than slowly asphyxiating. That's how thin our silver lining is but it's better than being torn between several sets of jaws. Suffocating is a relatively peaceful way to go from what the others are saying - we'd all just drift off if we let the room fill with enough carbon dioxide.
Something nearby has broken and we can hear water rushing further in. It's so loud it might as well be a plane taking off right by our heads. The trembling is now a full on earthquake and they seem to have the bunker surrounded. If I put my hand to the wall I can feel it starting to buckle.
Seems we won't be lucky enough to suffocate after all.
We have maybe five hours of oxygen left before we have to strap into the dive suits and from there we've got another two hours. It feels a bit surreal to know that we'll all be dead in seven hours at most and if they haven't broken through before then. Nobody's thought about food or water, we doubt we'll have the luxury of starving to death.
We're sitting around 4 kilometers below sea level, balancing on the edge of a coastal shelf. I caught sight of the drop when we were running from the flooding - it's like looking up at the sky on a cloudy moonless night - pure voidlike darkness and we're poised to head straight down if they manage to nudge us off the ledge.
At least the pressure that will crush the ship will kill us faster than slowly asphyxiating. That's how thin our silver lining is but it's better than being torn between several sets of jaws. Suffocating is a relatively peaceful way to go from what the others are saying - we'd all just drift off if we let the room fill with enough carbon dioxide.
Something nearby has broken and we can hear water rushing further in. It's so loud it might as well be a plane taking off right by our heads. The trembling is now a full on earthquake and they seem to have the bunker surrounded. If I put my hand to the wall I can feel it starting to buckle.
Seems we won't be lucky enough to suffocate after all.
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