PROLOGUE This is a historical, but fictional story of the sea war that was fought between the Royal Navy and the U Boats during the period 1940 to 1942, the action is staged at the time when the U Boats were sinking British and allied shipping with little resistance. . The story also refers to DEMS {Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) which was the armi...
The water was murky, but he had dived in worse. He swam down, letting the current move him over the bottom, adjusting his depth so the bottom was just detectable. He swung the light right and left to make his search as wide as possible. Presently the bottom began to rise, and he figured he was approaching the point. He decided to search back toward the skiff...
Kelly and I arrived at our Spanish coastal hotel, we had a week of scuba diving ahead of us, at least that was the plan. As keen divers we were always looking for new dive destinations and Spain had come across our radar. Needless to say, we were dying to get out and start discovering some of the dive sites on offer. We had barely settled in before making ou...
Editor's note: There are references to scuba diving terms throughout this story because this is based on a recent scuba diving trip... My mind is in a state of conflict and emotional pain. My marriage didn't last two years and I look back at it all with as a mixed blessing. Shortly after we were married, my husband became very controlling and as I learned...
Chapter 11 A few days later ... Michael rushed to finish his email. He regretted having to work on his honeymoon, but they were trying to close a big deal at work, and he needed to stay in touch. He looked out the window. Jen, his new wife, was waiting for him at the beach. She looked great in her new string bikini. She was only a little over a month preg...
My wife and I have been happily married for over a dozen years, we enjoy sex but with kids around its hard to find time or energy for wild sex. But finally we had a day with someone at the house to stay with the kids. We could have some time to ourselves if we could find somewhere to go. No chance at an overnight but a few hours are better than nothing. It w...
Day 1 Janet stepped onto the liveaboard dive boat with mild trepidation; this was to be her home for the next week. The dive company sales literature and several phone calls to them assured her limited diving experience was no obstacle to her enjoyment of the trip, but still lingering doubts plagued her. At 40 she was a newbie to diving having only her cert...
5: Water Sports "Jake, before you leave take these," Miranda tells him, holding out two glass vials filled with a dark red liquid and a syringe. "This is lamia's blood. It will give you a temporary sensory enhancement, allowing you to hold your breath underwater longer, enhanced strength, eyesight, hearing and smell. No negative side-effects are known and i...
Sam stepped back to let me be the first to mount the podium placed there to help one step off the jetty, over the lifelines and onto the yacht. That could be a case of courtesy on his part or just wanting a good look at my arse as I went first. Sam has always been one to do the gentlemanly thing of holding doors and letting me go first, so in this case I g...
Brown Basta' Cay "Come on, Randy. Your wife's going scuba diving for chrissake--why won't you?" My friend Bub had been hounding me ever since Susie and I had agreed to go with him and Rose Alice to Belize. Even now, on the plane, he wouldn't let it go. "Look. I had ear problems when I was a kid. I tried it once but it didn't work out, OK? Besides--Rose...