DIVING ADVENTURE

by Willard Price ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1970

Not even a semblance of verisimilitude down on Main Street in Undersea City--take the people: Dr. Dick, scientific director, knows nothing at all next to Hal Hunt, at nineteen a ""naturalist,"" or next to his kid brother Roger, that all-purpose foil who asks questions non-stop so that Hal can orate about this squid or that shark or about what befell a young man in Australia who tangled with a certain sea monster. And hovering over their cheerful complacency in the face of remarkable brushes with death (inside a whale's belly, trapped in a Deepboat, stuck in their sea-jeep, poisoned by snakebite. . . ) is old Merlin Kaggs the multi-murderer posing as a preacher who had left them to die on a desert island in South Sea Adventure--but Roger and Hal are invincible. They experiment with 'new' modes of food-gathering (no one had thought of a vacuum for sucking up large schools of fish? tuna were still being caught one by one; what of purse-seining?) and win over one grateful dolphin with artificial ""mouth-to-blowhole"" respiration. Later on. . . and on. . . when you think it's all over comes another--a last?--call, to Cannibal Adventure; more specimens for Daddy Hunt's zoo, but as Hal would say, definitely ""curtains for us.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: John Day

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION