If they hadn't known what they were looking for they might have missed her body altogether. Her bleached bones blended in almost perfectly with the whale fall that was teeming with hagfish and sleeper sharks and if she hadn't tried to lash out at them while their camera was facing her then she could have easily sunk her claws in and town the small submersible to shreds.
Her mistake left her swiping at the water scant inches in front of them as they tried to flee for lighter waters as quickly as they safely could. Her body was just as limited as theirs when it came to ascending to the shallows where they prayed they'd be able to leap out at the dock before she could bring them back down.
As the hull creaked and groaned the crew silently prayed that it would hold for just a little while longer, just a few more minutes, just a few more meters. The water around them grew lighter, shoals of fish passed them by, swimming away from them almost as quickly as they were swimming away from her.
The thing about diving is that, much like the harsh vod of space, there isn't enough air for a human to survive and one wrong move can mean a brutally slow suffocation. This wasn't the case for them, they were not so lucky as the sub collided with one of the dock's support beams and spiralled back down to the bay floor.
She wasn't far behind at all.
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