title: 25 Things That Splash in the Sea GIANT Coloring & Activity Book
author: Brad Rose
description: This is a great GIANT Coloring and Activitity Book, nicely bound softcover. Great for kids of all ages. Something for everyone. Full-color illustrations on covers. Fact-filled captions.
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  # CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  
  The slideway rose and fell like a tank racing over broken ground. Danny
  Pritchard had only a plastic bucket and not the hundred-odd tons of tank armor
  between him and danger, however.
  
  The sea lifted and ebbed beneath him at no fixed period; or rather, at a
  period set by as many variables as a sun-spot sequence, theoretically
  calculable but for human practice lost in uncertainty. The water was a lucent
  gray-green, metallic. In it moved blurs of other colors, jetsam sucked from
  the current to be filtered and compacted by type in the tubes running back to
  the building on the shore.
  
  The concentration of microlife and the leakage of juices from the processing
  drew larger beasts upstream. They could be seen playing as black shadows about
  the tubingtwo meters long, three meters; one of them five meters at least,
  Danny would swear. It looked as slippery as a flame and as ravenous