Deadly Apparition

Commander Donald Castillo is the commander of the Virginia class fast attack nuclear submarine Kansas. It is the latest and best that the U.S. Navy has to offer. He is asked to test a new ground-breaking countermeasure that will revolutionize naval warfare. Its code name is Apparition and he will be working with a civilian test team headed by Dr. Susan Lambert. This is game changing technology born of the Hadron Collider and the Navy brass are hungry for it. But something goes wrong during testing and the Kansas and her crew disappear off the western coast of Scotland. The American and British navies perform an exhaustive search, but find not a trace of Kansas.Meanwhile, Castillo and the rest of the Kansas crew can not understand where everyone has gone. They can't get a response from anyone, nor can they see anything on sonar, nor can they get a GPS fix. What's going on? They see what looks like a replica of an old Spanish galleon sailing ship. Castillo decides to surface and...