Well do we need a mysterious stranger to muddy the waters. We have still to raise the airplane we located before we found ourselves in the Twilite Zone. Imagine the notoriety and fame we have waiting for us when we achieve that. Lillian ask William to try to cajole from this man his exact interest in us and the BT. I dont trust him..........
I reckon ask this Stranger the basic view or hint as to what he's offering. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, or Information? I'm not too keen on him joining us but it could be worth our while to do so? Let's see what he's offering. Back tracking a little: Docking the Lady was fine with Richie's flawless skills , and the special licence was approved with Mario greasing palms with some of my US dollars. $US 200 per day made the Port Officials very obliging. Easy. All documents done quickly.
William says the mysterious stranger’s name is Jorge. He claims to have the exact coordinates to the location where we saw the plane. He could save us a lot of time looking for it if we can even find it again. I don’t know….. maybe we can have Mario grease a few more palms and find out more about him. I don’t seem to remember being in the Twilight Zone. My memory of the last few hours seems to have become quite foggy.
That is odd as I recall every minute of it. You worked a miracle getting us out of the Twilite Zone and now we have proof in JJ's video camera that a parallel universe exists to ours you will be even more famous. As for the stranger he is an imposter. I too know the co-ordinates of the airplane wreckage so any recognition that comes our way only those that started the expedition will benefit......
Seems like we don't need Jorge, as our Captain Richie says he knows where to go anyway. That's fine by me but I reckon William pay him say $US 50 for good will and confirmation of Richie's memories. After looking through my camera's recent recordings they are fuzzy at times, just like my own recent memories, like Lillian's too. Its like a jigsaw with missing pieces but I'm game to follow whatever it leads to. What does William think of his lead with this Jorge? Does William's Jorge know more than he's letting on. I bet he does. I gave some $US bills to Mario, and William to keep digging for information, even to Carlos for fresh food supplies which we need. I'll help him with that looking through the Port's markets. Heaps of top shelf Seafood which I love. We hired a cart to take it all back to our moored Lady. I was generous with the officials as we stored away our supplies. King prawns galore! Talking a bit in my basic Spanish I left most of that and bargaining to Carlos, who said, in Spanish, that I was another gulible Gringo. I played my part well I think. Even my Spanish got better. New swear words too!
JJ as long as the flotilla of lost ships can be made out we are fine. Forget Jorge.. we have other more important things to take care of. I dont wanna pull rank but I may have to here. I want William back on The Lady by dusk. Can you please relay that to him.............
Here they all are now coming down to our Lady's Mooring: William, Carlos, Mario with two ladies on his arms with him, and I with Carlos and my camera recordings. Mario's Ladies loved the posing and I gave them both a discreet unedited recording on a 64 gig usb blank stick. The locals loved acting up to the camera. Especially the Children. Carlos and I hired a small truck to transport our big shop to our own docked boat, our 'Lady'. Lots of lollies for the street kids too. Carlos and I spent an hour or two yapping with them, God seems to have blessed them with a thick skin. Satellite pics and forecasting predict at least a week of Calm re climate forcasts. "A window of Opportunity for us" I say. "Where to Captain?"
"Let's go your to your Coords Captain Richie!" I said, yet I had a nagging doubt I couldn't explain. Just nerves i said to myself.
Nerves or intuition, JJ? Can our story be coming to an end? I'll be down below deck in my cabin going over my records. I'll leave it to you gentlemen to carry on for now.
Next morning The Lady arrived above the sunken airplane. Soon after Richie and JJ had donned wetsuits and began their dive to the wreck site only to discover that inexplicably for the second time it had vanished. Crestfallen, the pair return topside to relay the news to the others. That is it.. no more.. said Richie. We could spend the next year following this phantom wreck. I say we cut our losses and act on our findings in the alternate universe. JJ is there any way you can improve the vision of the shots of the ship graveyard.. so as to leave not even a shadow of a doubt as their authenticity. They will have to convince some powerful people, sceptics too. We have gone thru so much to now have it all fall apart. See what you can do buddy.................
I know a bit on editing the camera's images Richie, but I also some real experts. I'd rather not fiddle with the original as that adds to its authenticity with digital certificates. However we can now make copies to enhance, ... and look closer at. Cuts, Splicing of scenes by me and with voice overs, even spooky music and sounds for the Punters, but leave the originals as they are, for the cynics to grind their teeth over.
I've done all the editing I can for now Richie and it's come out good except in just a few static bits. Time to return to the US Richie?
Let's go home JJ. Lillian are you staying with us while we report out findings from the Twilite Zone or returning to college.
So we sailed back into Charleston. When we disembarked at the dock, there was a group of men wearing black suits and wrap around dark glasses waiting for us. The one who appeared to be the leader said, “NSA”. And flashed a badge. “We will require that you turn over all records of your trip to us.” They took everything, cameras, diaries, videos…. Everything. The Powers That Be will never let the Bermuda Triangle mystery be solved. So now all we have is the memory of a delightful cruise around the Mediterranean. What story awaits our intrepid trio next? Ideas?