Upon flying out to the Marianna Islands with Masao and Terry, Jonas also is reunited with old friend James 'Mac' Macreides, and is also introduced to Alphonse DeMarco and DJ tanaka, Terry's brother. Seeing this as an opportunity to prove his theory that the megalodon still exists after seeing the damage to the device in photographs showing the shark is responsible for the remote sub's disappearance, Jonas agrees.Īfter flying to the Tanaka Institute, Jonas is reunited with Masao Tanaka. He is approached again by Terry, who tells Jonas her father lost a remote submarine called a UNIS in the Mariana Trench and hopes to retrieve it with his helo. During the ceremony, Jonas gets drunk and discovers Maggie and Bud are having an affair, leading him to punch Bud and leave. Jonas also has issues with his estranged wife, Maggie, a ruthless news reporter from whom he is currently separated.Īfter leaving the lecture hall, Jonas attends an awards ceremony with his friend, Bud Harris, a billionaire tycoon, and with Maggie. During the lecture on his theory that Megalodon may still exist in the deep sea, he is questioned by Terry Tanaka, daughter of his friend, Masao Tanaka, a marine biologist. Years later, Jonas continues to try and prove that what he saw was real. While on the dive, Jonas watches in horror as a megalodon rises from the depths, Jonas surfaces as fast as he can and escapes, at the cost of his two crew members' deaths unfortunately, the Navy does not believe his claims, labeling him a madman and ruining his career.

His mission is top secret, and involves confirming the existence of an extinct species of shark known as the megalodon, a massive predator that could grow 20 meters (65 feet) in length. In 1997, Jonas Taylor is working deep in the Mariana Trench with the United States Navy. In the novel's prologue, taking place during the Late Cretaceous Period, a Tyrannosaurus rex stumbles into the ocean while pursuing a herd of Shantungosaurus, and is promptly attacked and devoured by a megalodon (revealed as a slideshow by Jonas Taylor, a paleontologist and marine biologist, who is giving a lecture on the shark).

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