following a hundred miles astern. The frigate Gridley patrolled Sj the CBG’s flank to the south, while Biddle continued searching ‘Mi for the lost sub contact to the north. The group’s Aegis cruiser, ‘!si U.S.S. Vicksburg, lay thirty miles off Jefferson’s port quarter. |« One last member of the carrier group prowled far ahead of
•^ the Winslow, two hundred meters beneath the surface. The ;* ral at the plot table. “His last message stated that the contact
H might be lying low, hiding on the bottom.”
JP|. Vaughn reached down and traced the line marking the limits
•p. of the continental shelf south of Kutch and Kathiawar. 8;.. “What’s the depth up there . . . about fifty fathoms?” “1*4-.? “Yes, sir. That’s probably what’s limiting their sonar.” ||p- “You’d think he could find something as big as a god-‘jjj^ damned submarine in water three hundred feet deep,” Vaughn <$$•• muttered. "How about we send Galveston in to help Biddle