Part III, Selenos 8: Chapters 40 - 42 Summary

Pitt struggles with his bathtub boat, but is invisible to merchant traffic. Once he runs out of fuel the bathtub will likely sink. Fortunately for Pitt, the Denver is running maneuvers and picks up an anomaly on their sonar. When they surface, they find Pitt motoring along in a bathtub. Pitt is rescued. Then the chain of command must be altered in order to get Pitt stateside as quickly as possible. Clyde Montfort calls Admiral Sandecker with the news that Pitt is alive; news that brings Sandecker out of his depression. The likelihood that any of the blimp crew could still be alive was nil and Sandecker had begun the grieving process for the loss of his three friends. With joy he contacts the president to get a presidential order to get Pitt to the...