Li unslung them from around his neck and handed them to Biff. “Now, look. Follow the direction of my arm. About half a mile, I’d guess, off shore. Almost exactly between Ka Lae and Kauna Point.”
“I’m following you, Li.”
“Move your glasses around in a tight area of a few hundred yards. See if you spot a dark object on the bottom of the ocean.”
The boys were looking almost straight down. From his many flights over water, Biff knew that from above, one could see through the water to depths of forty to fifty feet with ease. The water acted as a magnifying glass.
He moved the glasses in a tight circle. Then he spotted what had caused all Li’s excitement. Lying on the bottom of the ocean was a dark object. It was slender, about forty feet long, Biff judged.
“Do you think it could be, Biff? Think it could be a boat?”
Biff didn’t want to raise either his own or Li’s hopes too high.
“Couldn’t it be a coral formation, Li?” he asked.
“Gee, I don’t think so, Biff. There’d be more then one formation of coral around. It’s mighty rare to find just a sliver stuck out somewhere in the ocean.”
“Then it could be a boat! A boat on the bottom of the ocean.”