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Broken Voyagers
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Bette sighed putting the finishing touches to her diving log. She had neglected to record the last two dives. Not that her trip to Oslo had consisted in anything remotely akin to a dive but she needed to make a few notes nonetheless.
Tina had already put her special touch into the notebook; sketching a lean sponge diver in full dive, holding his breath, clutching in his right hand the net which would hold his quarry, legs frozen in a kicking motion to help him reach the sea bed. He was shirtless and wore crude shorts cut out of jute sack material.
Bette smiled. She loved Tina’s imagination, but the blonde was not far off the truth if the stories that Dimitri had recounted were to be believed. There were a few sketches of some of the amphorae they had seen, too many to count, including the one where Tina had disturbed the octopus. There was also a stark reminder of the more gruesome finds in the shape of the drawing of one of the green statues, forever petrified in the shallow depth around the island; A man reclined against a coral covered rock, face mangled by the assault of the salty water, hands and feet missing rendering him even more incapable of escaping his fate in the depth of the Mediterranean sea.
Bette shrugged. Choosing instead to concentrate on her non-dive in Oslo. She had collected a few postcards to keep in her log including a little guilty pleasure she had afforded herself seeing as she had a few hours to spare before her flight back to Athens.
This ship hadn’t been on her father’s list, but she had not wanted to miss the Baltic’s most famous wreck. The ‘Vasa’ was awesome. Perfectly preserved and now beautifully restored, the 64-gun warship had sunk on its maiden voyage. The King had insisted that his shipbuilders add an extra deck to make it the grandest ship of all time. The extra timber, however, had made the vessel top-heavy and, soon after launching, a slight breeze had flipped the ‘Vasa’ over on its side. Water has cascaded in through the open gunports, and Europe’s most powerful battleship sank before even reaching the open sea.
Three centuries later, in the 1950’s, divers found the ‘Vasa’ almost complete in 32m of water. The Baltic water was not salty enough to support the shipworms which eat and destroy wood. Amazingly when they pumped out the water, the warship floated again! Seeing this ship restored had taken Bette’s breath away. Normally, wrecks of old wooden ships are like skeletons rotting on the seabed. But the ‘Vasa’ was as good as new.
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Hi! You one of my favourite writers and i very glad and happy that you returned and finished this amazing story! Thank you very much!
After i reading i leave another comment which will be more about story plot.
Wow Kins this takes care of my weekend reading!
Will comment again when I’ve read it.
Thanks in advance for posting.
SG
So glad you finished this story! Thank you for sticking it out and giving us this story. Loved it
Hi Kins,
So glad to see this story! It will take some time to read it and i will leave a comment after i finish.
Hi, welcom back, Kins!
Thank you for finished this story! Ok, now i’m going to read it.
Hi, Kins
Oh my God, Kins, welcome back, after almost 2 years, it’s been a long time, but reading the whole story now I feel, the wait was worth.
You have given us a quite wonderful and interesting story full of adventures and riddles and full of love of my favorite couple Bette and Tina.
You ended the story in a very good way, but I feel as if I want to know more about them, if Bette gets the funding for her project in Mexico, the wedding, their partnership, what Tina does for a job… and many more things.
I hope we could read more new beautiful stories from you; I like very much your style.
Thank you very much and please, post other TIBETTE stories
P
Ok, i read again this story, this time the whole and i’m ready to leave another comment.
First – thank you again for finish the story.
Second – happy to see happy final -treasure was found, bitch Kelly got lost. And i must say i like how you got rid from her – like in life we can say with 100% probability what happened – or she sank or she was killed by shark.
Third – i like how you described Bette and Tina and love between them. I like it in all your stories (maybe with one exception – in Frozen beginnings i don’t like your Bette during the story, but in final she corrected :) )
So, welcome back and maybe in the future we can see another great story from you? I really hope so.
Hi Kins,
Really enjoyed the read, thank you so much.
A great Story and I loved reading it in one post. As an English Lady I really enjoyed your explanation of Cricket!
I would love it if you would now consider a Sequel with these two characters.
Thanks again for posting.
SG
Welcom back, Kins!
I was a silent reader a long time, but after you finished this story i must register to say – “Thank you for fantastic story! And i hope this story won’t be your last on this site!”
Totaly agree with MissOne – i hope this story won’t be the last from you too!
Hi Kins,
You took us trough a incredible journey! Full of adventures, little clues i tried to catch to find the treasure, the background on the history of those ships and of course the love between Bette & Tina.
I really hope you will continu with a sequel or a new story.
Thank you so much for posting the whole story after two long years!
In-cre-di-ble! Kins, thank you so much for returning to this story and for giving us such a glorious and sweet ending. You’re such a talented writer. What a wonderful plot with astonishing details to the treasure hunt.
I second the previous comments and hope you’ll find the inspiration (and time) to work on a sequel. Maybe Bette’s project in Mexico with a twist with some unexpected traces of a legendary Aztec treasure ;)
Well ive read it at last.So pleased you managed to finish this story.I know how long it was in conception and all the research you did for its authenticity.
A great read.Loved the shark sequence.Found it quite thrilling.
Not as thrilling as the love scenes that you tell so well between Bette and Tina tho ????
Look forward to the next story that you will write for us.
Don’t make it too long a wait tho
C.x
Kins…!!! Yay! It’s really you!!
^_^
First, am so happy to see your name appear again! :) been so long!! So Glad to hear from you! hope all are fine for you and your love one!
Second, OMG…! The Long story at once!! Woohooo… such a great treat! THANKS!!
And third…. LOVE your story! This is so worthy! Appreciate your hard work in researching, plotting, writing and sharing this wonderful story! Your writing style is getting more interesting and fantastic! It’s Long pages but I just can’t stop reading it – well there’s a moment where I wanted to stop reading when that low creature kidnap her (ugh.. I don’t want to spoil the story).. it’s too much for me.. >.<
Again… thanks for sharing your talent here! :) if you ever consider to publish this, do update us here! ;-)
Take care always Kins! ^.^
Just finished reading. It was a fun read. Thanks for the adventure.
Wow!!!! Such rich detail that it feels so true ,.. as if you have near lived these experiences ur self. And along w the romance of it, I learned so much about ship wrecks and diving. Do post it on AO3 as well to get a broader audience… it belongs to stories worth sharing :)