By 2022, a second ship is sent – filled with scientists and hunters – to find definitive proof of what happened to the Atargatis and to prove definitively that mermaids do exist. Now the Atargatis was owned by an entertainment company, Imagine Entertainment (think, perhaps, Disney), shooting a mockumentary about mermaids and the footage was instantly dismissed as a hoax.
The footage of mermaids was recovered and disseminated and made public. The ship was found six weeks later, adrift and abandoned. They had been captured on film in 2015, recorded by the crew of the ship Atargatis above the Mariana Trench nearly a decade before the events of this novel.Ĭommunications were lost on May 17. From Peter Pan to The Pisces, Mermaids have not been safe.Īnd so they remain in Mira Grant’s Into The Drowning Deep.Īnd this is no spoiler: the structure of the novel is not the structure of a thriller in any way: from the opening prologue we know that mermaids are real and vicious. I recall doing a Top Five Saturday post – I really should get back into that meme, there were some lovely people taking part! – about mermaids and, unlike Ariel, I could not find any that did not have nasty vicious natures, or at least were associated with death and a death wish.
“The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”
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