Dave and Brian's Excellent Adventures

As the sun peaks over the horizon, it signals the beginning of a new day (Music builds). An island rises out of the water (Cue light). It is our destination: Santorini (Music hits its cresendo). Sorry, I've been reading a lot of Clive Cussler lately, and his "Setting the Scene" is getting really corny.

Today we pick up more scientists from Greece, and begin our search around the Caldera. Instead of looking for lost ship wrecks and downed Russian helicopters, we're after the ever alusive rock, or core sample.

The ring of islands that surround the boat make it very difficult to imagine the massive size of how big the volcano was. It's almost 8 nautical miles across, and if someone came in one of the many cruise ships docked here, you probably would just call it a chain of islands. Looking around at the top of each peak, you can see many homes built on the very edge of the cliff, over looking the water. The only thing that came to my mind is, "Man that must be a beautiful view, an expensive view, but beautiful". And if you look around you'll notice that many of the sides of the Caldera have had small rock and landslides. That expensive house could easily turn into a house boat; at least for the first minute it hits the water, before sinking.