In Your Oceans Mapping Your Seafloors

Just a science girl on a boat, doing science-y things

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Not much more to say

I'm changing my major. It's decided. I guess Nadine made the same decision. She's moving to San Francisco too and is going to finish her grad work at distance. I think I have an idea why she's moving considering that her and Hina just set their relationship statuses on facebook to dating each other.

I'm glad for them. Silver linings, you know? They make a cute couple.

I guess I'll never know what really was going on with that ship or what was in those undersea ruins. Or what happened while I was sleepwalking all those times and what Toby saw. I'll probably go back to my regular blog and deal with life like normal. Or try to. How do you even recover from something like this? And it's like, we can't tell anyone what really happened because they would hospitalize us or something. The news said that The Eye was sunk by Toby and he's being blamed for all the deaths. I mean technically he did sink it but I don't believe anyone was still alive on that ship when it went down. It sucks that his name is being dragged through the mud but seriously, what can we do? No one would for a second believe even half the shit we went through. No one's interviewed me or Hina or Nadine. Sania either. Maybe they talked to Captain Santiago? I honestly don't know what'll happen with the investigation. I have no idea how I'd deal if a bunch of police showed up to interview me.

I guess the divers couldn't find the submersible in the open bay when they went searching. Maybe Toby got out. But the news said they didn't find any bodies either so I guess there's no way to know for sure. And he's not going to contact anyone if he'd get arrested the minute the police or Interpol or whomever would handle something like The Eye going down got wind of him. Maybe that's Aussie jurisdiction? I don't know anything about international law. So all I can do is hope he's alive.

The nosebleeds are only happening here and there so I think more or less it's over now and my back still feels cold and tingly but nothing really hurts there now. Nerve damage probably doesn't heal so I'll just get used to it.

Anyways I just know I won't ever go on a boat again.

So last post here. No more sonarchick. Back to landlocked life as usual.

Now if you'll excuse me, some asshole is knocking on my door like my apartment is on fire, so I'm going to go deal with that.

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Thank god I'm home.

My parents sent money to fly me back to the city where my campus is right after getting discharged. I'm glad my school's health insurance has international coverage or I would have some ridiculous hospital debt added on to my growing student loans.

I'm still having trouble sleeping. I tried doing some research on The Eye's owner but google didn't yield any help. The guy was really private. I talked to Sania over facebook too, her time zone meant we were talking at a slightly less ridiculous hour for her but she doesn't know more than me.

She said they were after something in the ruins Avery was mapping. But that was all she had. Then she told me to get checked out for a clotting disorder or something. Heh. I'm actually holding tissues to my nose right now. The nosebleeds are slowing down though. So I hope it'll stop completely. The scratches left some pretty nasty scars on my back. They're weird, almost geometric symbols. I have no idea how I could've done them to myself, they're awkwardly placed back there. But they're faint now. Sometimes they feel really cold. Probably nerve damage or something.

I'm healing.

Just wish my brain would heal.

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I'm going to use this blog a little bit longer

I just need to try to wrap things up a little and get some closure and I don't want to talk about any of that on my regular blog.

First of all, Santiago is okay. Just injured and bed ridden still.

Second, I don't remember writing the posts about the eyes, Sparks, Eleanor and Avery and it's scaring the fuck out of me. I might delete them.

I'm in a hospital in Freemantle and I already have Sania's number and email and facebook. Hina and Nadine are probably going to head back to the states right away, Santiago is still dealing with recovery, Sania said she's headed to family in the UK to recover from what we all went through and they're going to discharge me probably tomorrow since their tests aren't showing anything unusual.

I don't think the Captain wants anything to do with any of us anymore but I told her she can add me on facebook any time if she wants to talk. Hina told me that she's just dealing with things like she normally does and not to take it personally.

I won't. I get it. I don't want to remember either.

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On the rescue ship

I woke up in the survey boat before we all got picked up.

Sania was keeping Captain Santiago steady and Nadine was holding a compress to my nose. Hina was piloting the boat itself. We were already moving away from the Eye when I came to. I saw the explosions happen and the hellhole sink into the water as we got further away.

Sorry for any typoes btw its hard to touch pad this because I'm so dizzy. The IV drip tube keeps getting in the way too. The boats that rescued us have internet and I'm using my phone right now.

I must have lost the laptop somewhere. My backpack didn't make it either. Hina told me I lost a lot of blood and Toby had to carry me back. Not just from the nosebleed, I had weird scratches all over my back. She said I was coughing blood up too. My pants and shirt were completely soaked in blood, all over my lap and chest and stomach. Which is weird because I'm only really injured on my back, but the blood on the back of my shirt was minimal. I think they're going to take me to the hospital at this rate, not just Captain Santiago.

Hina won't tell me what Toby found when he went back to look for Avery and Sparks and me. She hasn't told Nadine either. I guess Eleanor is gone too, I must have dropped her when I lost consciousness. Maybe she doesn't know. Maybe Toby refused to tell her. I dunno. She looked really sick when I asked the question. Toby stayed on board though. Hina told me that the explosives couldn't be armed properly by remote. Captain Santiago had damaged the wireless device that sets them all off in the fight with the other captain. So he set them off manually. I heard the end of the exchange before the explosives went off.

He was supposed to get to the submersible and use it while the ship was sinking. I guess the explosives weren't big, just meant to breach the hull all over and sink it. But after he told us he got the door to the diving chamber open he just started screaming and the radio went to static. There was some background noise that we couldn't make out either. Fuck.

So many people died. I dunno how I lived through this, how any of us did...

But we escaped. We got off the ship. We're going home. I just hope Santiago makes it...

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found them

made into a sculpture

like the others

they look like a tree now

bones all twisty

merged together

flesh hugging flesh

eyes drawn everywhere

no space to draw more

people have a lot of blood

sparks is talking

no

just gurgling

no words

just blood and air

staring and gurgling

eyes wide

think she's looking behind me

my back feels cold

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it got eleanor

came out of the walls i think

only saw flickers from corner of my eye

i fell and hit my head

so many eyes

it didn't get all of her

she's easier to carry now

light and small

i keep slipping in the blood

out of breath

eyes on the walls are blinking at me

eleanor is blinking at me too

hear screaming again

going to run now

bye

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Toby called us

Sparks is gone and Avery's missing too.

Nadine and Hina got separated from everyone while carting Captain Santiago to the boat. They started running with the Captain when the screaming started.

From every part of the hallway...

Sania got to the boat just after them. Said she panicked and ran too.

So Hina, Nadine, Sania and the Captain are safe and Toby says he's going to come back to us first and bring us to the boat and then try to find Sparks and Avery. 

I just don't

wait

I hear knocking again

And now Eleanor just smacked her head against the door really hard

Shit, she's not answering me.

Fuck. Okay, I checked her. She knocked herself out and her nose is bleeding too. I think I hear knocking and maybe faint screaming. I'm going to post this and try to drag her out of here. I'll be fucked if I'm going to sit around and let both of us die.

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FUCK

Everything's gone straight to hell.

There was screaming over the radio and no one's answering. Oh god, guys please be okay. Even Sparks. Please just don't be dead.

Toby's on his way, okay? Eleanor and I will hold down the fort by the door to the submersible bay. Where the owner is locked in and isn't listening. 

Just please still be alive.

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Plan B

Most of the supplies are on the small craft now. I think Sparks finally won the argument with Avery, I guess because the Captain's condition is worsening and the shit that's happening with me was the last straw. At least I didn't sleepwalk last night.

She says we need to move Captain Santiago to the small survey craft with Sania, Avery, Hina and Nadine to try to get to the rescue ships as quickly as possible for medical attention. That's the limit on the craft with a gurney in there for the Captain to lay on, but Toby said that he, Eleanor and I can go inside the submersible vessel and breach the surface with it and open the hatch so we don't waste air. I guess it makes sense to keep me in a contained space so I don't sleep drown myself.

But the idea of going down and trying to get the owner of the ship to let us use the submersible is pretty terrifying. I gotta admit, I'm a little pissed at Sparks for throwing me to that side of things...

Toby says he can scuttle the ship by remote from the vessel and everyone agrees its time to put this thing under. Each group is going to have two radios.

Wish us luck, guys.

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I'm losing my mind

I woke up sitting up in a different spot with Sparks shaking me. Everyone's freaked and they're all staring at me.

Nadine told me I disappeared again, even with someone on watch and everyone was panicking and now there's another creepy post on my tumblr that I don't remember writing. I was gone for the entire morning. They were going to go searching for me. Sparks told me I appeared out of nowhere, vacant expression on my face and I was humming and my mouth and nose were all bloody. And all the walls behind me where covered in red eyes. She said I scared the shit out of her.

Sleepwalking. I just... I really hope someone keeps an eye on me specifically tonight...

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Can't sleep

Hina's got Nadine laying in her lap and is singing softly to her in Japanese.

She has a really pretty voice.

My nose is bleeding again but it's okay

I've been drawing with it

Lots of eyes

eyes

eyes everywhere

big red eyes

computer screen is making me dizzy

gonna go draw more eyes

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Thank god

Avery and Sparks are back. They both took Jeff's death and Santiago's injuries badly. They had an argument in private and Sparks was yelling.

We're all really scared but we can't blame Avery. He had no idea that this was going to happen.

Hina went to check out the storeroom after Sania stabilized Captain Santiago and we could breathe a second. She went in and covered the bodies up. I asked her how the bodies were... messed up like they were and she said something in Japanese and then told me she had no idea. She looked nauseous...

The engines are screwed but the SOS went out okay, Sparks even talked to some Aussie Royal Navy folks or something like that. They're on their way to rescue us. A few days out. We must be drifting away from Australia from the sound of it.

Now we're all just trying to sleep. Sania, Toby, Hina, Sparks, Avery, they're all taking turns taking watch. Eleanor is still half catatonic. Captain Santiago is resting the whole time, doc's orders and Nadine and I aren't really allowed to hold a gun so... I dunno. I guess we hang out and rest too.

Right now Toby's keeping an eye out on things.

I'm starting to think no one else is hearing the knocking but me lately...

I'm afraid to ask

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Shit

Hina was practically dragging Captain Santiago back. Jeff's dead and I guess Hina and Cap had to kill one of the crew members because he went off the deep end and started shooting people. Screaming about, "it can't get off the ship, it can't get on land"

None of the other Eye crew members made it back. Hina said she's not sure where they are because the one that went off his rocker only killed one of them and shot Jeff and Captain Santiago before she killed him. The others just disappeared.

We told her about the storeroom and Sania is patching the Captain up now. Please let her make it. Please.

Avery and Sparks still haven't come back yet either...

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...

I don't know what's going on...

We just found three crew members of The Eye and two of the guests in a storage room. I can't even describe what was done to them, I don't think I have words. Who could even do something like that...

Their skin was

And the blood

Their fucking limbs and

I can't, I can't even, if I think about what they looked like I'll start hyperventilating. Nadine's throwing up again. At least the one guest, Eleanor, stopped screaming finally. She's just sitting staring at the wall now. I'm not ashamed to admit I just plain fainted when I walked in. I guess Toby and Sania dragged all of us out. We can still smell the bodies from here too. 

I'm pretty much just updating this now because I'm sure someone is murdering everyone like the captain tried to and I need people to know in case we all die here. I mean, it's got to be a person right? A really strong person or someone with tools because they were... warped... like... I can't even fucking describe it.

I don't even know how it's possible to do that to bone, much less skin. 

And the eyes...

The eyes from my dreams were smeared in blood all over the walls...

What could that even mean...

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Disaster

Captain Santiago gathered together the entire Kettle crew, Nadine and me, Toby and Sania and Avery. A few other crew members of The Eye too and one of the guests. All inside the dining hall. I'm trying to type quietly as she talks.

She's saying really crazy stuff.

The Eye's captain sabotaged the controls of the ship, shot four crew members and tried to set off some kind of bomb built into The Eye or something. She said she stopped him and he's dead now but he almost scuttled the ship with us on it. Fuck, what kind of ship has explosives built into it to sink it?

A bunch of people are also missing, guests and crew members. The owner is holed up in a lower section with the submersible vessel (they have a submersible vessel?!) and won't come out. A bunch of the life boats are trashed and even if they weren't, another storm is coming in, so the only boat that would have a chance of making it is the larger side boat. We can't all fit in it.

Captain and Hina have a plan. They're going to hit the engine room and try to get things started, repair the damage with Jeff if the captain sabotaged anything there since the ship stopped moving completely. A few of the Eye's crew members are going with them. Sparks and Avery are going to get an SOS out, both over radio and over the satellite net. I'm not sure how good the net will work but I guess they could call The Royal Australian Navy or Coastwatch or whatever (I dunno who handles rescues for Australia) by tying their phones to the net. Sparks is pretty much an electronics and radio genius, so if anyone can do it, she can. The remaining crew members will help them out.

Sania, Toby, the other guest, Eleanor or something, Nadine and I, I guess we're all supposed to pull together supplies as best as we can in case we do have to go by boat and break into the submersible chamber and use that.

Well I mean, she told Sania, Toby, Nadine and the guest to do it and said I could sit out if I felt dizzy.

I'm just... fuck.

The teams are all splitting up now. Guess I should wrap this up and post.

Everything's gone nuts. I think I'd prefer to be busy and gathering supplies because then I won't think I've lost my mind.

I can still hear knocking...

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Things going wrong

Nadine and Hina got me out of the medical ward. I'm still shaky on my legs. Everyone looks panicked.

No one will answer me when I ask them if we're at Freemantle yet. 

I don't remember writing that previous post. Sania says she was with me all of this morning and didn't see me open my laptop or wake up once. What the fuck is happening?

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help

i hear screaming everywhere

the eyes

why isn't dr ellis back

eyes