Something had been swimming below our vessel for a few days, shadowing us while we tried to carry out our research but the damned thing kept eating any probes we sent down. Our cameras must have some fascinating pictures of it and its digestive tract but unfortunately it's quite likely that we'll never recover them.
On a clear day when the water is calm we catch glimpses of eye stalks - red eyes and skin which makes it best suited for the deep where red light is the first of the spectrum to be filtered out in the depths. What the rest of it looks like remains a mystery but we're beginning to think that it's attached itself to the hull like remora fish to sharks.
It doesn't endanger us right away but it does mean that we're sitting much farther down in the ocean than I feel comfortable with. If it continues to drag us down we'll have to risk abandoning ship and with the way it treated our floating probes we know we won't stand a chance.
Our best bet is making it close enough to shore that we can hail for a helicopter rescue and hope that it takes the damned ship back out to sea. We can't risk something of that size and strength hanging around a port or finding a populated beach.
There's been talks of deliberately sinking the ship.
Whatever we do, it'll need to happen soon.
It's started watching us through the portholes.
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