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Arctic Drift (Dirk Pitt, #20)
by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Robert Trombetta
Minniear
10/11/10
Eng 9
Arctic Drift
The book I read was called Arctic Drift and it is by Clive Cussler. The setting is in 2011, Canadian Arctic, and Washington DC. The main characters are Dirk Pitt Senior, Dirk Pitt Junior, and Summer Pitt and the point of view is in the third person.
Dirk Pitt Senior is the head of NUMA, or the National Underwater and Marine Agency. It is a United States government agency that studies the world’s oceans and everything in them. Dirk is adventurous, headstrong, daring, though he has slowed down from what he was in his younger years, intelligent, quick minded, and has a hobby of restoring antique vehicles. Dirk Pitt Junior is like his father except that he works with his twin, Summer, under their father and the two of them travel the world. Summer is more cautious than her brother, though she is daring, quick minded, and can match Dirk in knowledge of the oceans. Summer has an advanced diploma from Scripps Institute while Dirk garnered a degree from New York Maritime College.
In the story, the US is in a terrible economic state because the prices of fossil fuels are skyrocketing and the Canadians are threatening to stop their flow of oil. The amount of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere is getting to be deadly. A scientist, Lisa Lane, is working on finding a way to reduce the carbon dioxide by splitting the gas particles into carbon and oxygen and accidentally found the solution when she left rhodium and ruthenium, a rare metal, in the experimentation machine. When she came back she found that she had found a way to reverse it. An environmental friendly producer named Mitchell Goyette, who actually invests highly in products like natural gas and has an underground empire of carbon dioxide-producing products, is distraught at her findings because if her findings were to go public and facilities to break down the carbon dioxide then his empire would fall. He hires a mercenary named Clay Zak to track down the remaining deposits of the ore. While researching the acidity in the waters off the Alaskan coast when they got involved in the mysterious deaths of a fishing boat’s crew.
I really liked this book and I’d suggest it to anyone who’s interested in adventure. I liked it because I like Clive Cussler’s work. I also like anything that has to do with the world’s oceans.
Minniear
10/11/10
Eng 9
Arctic Drift
The book I read was called Arctic Drift and it is by Clive Cussler. The setting is in 2011, Canadian Arctic, and Washington DC. The main characters are Dirk Pitt Senior, Dirk Pitt Junior, and Summer Pitt and the point of view is in the third person.
Dirk Pitt Senior is the head of NUMA, or the National Underwater and Marine Agency. It is a United States government agency that studies the world’s oceans and everything in them. Dirk is adventurous, headstrong, daring, though he has slowed down from what he was in his younger years, intelligent, quick minded, and has a hobby of restoring antique vehicles. Dirk Pitt Junior is like his father except that he works with his twin, Summer, under their father and the two of them travel the world. Summer is more cautious than her brother, though she is daring, quick minded, and can match Dirk in knowledge of the oceans. Summer has an advanced diploma from Scripps Institute while Dirk garnered a degree from New York Maritime College.
In the story, the US is in a terrible economic state because the prices of fossil fuels are skyrocketing and the Canadians are threatening to stop their flow of oil. The amount of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere is getting to be deadly. A scientist, Lisa Lane, is working on finding a way to reduce the carbon dioxide by splitting the gas particles into carbon and oxygen and accidentally found the solution when she left rhodium and ruthenium, a rare metal, in the experimentation machine. When she came back she found that she had found a way to reverse it. An environmental friendly producer named Mitchell Goyette, who actually invests highly in products like natural gas and has an underground empire of carbon dioxide-producing products, is distraught at her findings because if her findings were to go public and facilities to break down the carbon dioxide then his empire would fall. He hires a mercenary named Clay Zak to track down the remaining deposits of the ore. While researching the acidity in the waters off the Alaskan coast when they got involved in the mysterious deaths of a fishing boat’s crew.
I really liked this book and I’d suggest it to anyone who’s interested in adventure. I liked it because I like Clive Cussler’s work. I also like anything that has to do with the world’s oceans.
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