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Tiny Boothnes Island has turned its back on the modern
world and all its technology. But the modern world comes knocking in the form
of Tom Swift, enjoying a resort cruise in the South Pacific and relaxing by
tinkering with his meropticon, an ocean-eye camera that can provide a
vista-view of the seafloor as if turning the ocean waters invisible. The
weeks-long cruise aboard the Meridienne
is interrupted by the crash of a seaplane--first incident in the eerie mystery
of the Dead-Faced Watchers, who haunt the coral shoals around the island like
undersea spectres. With his family and friends at his side, Tom strives to
uncover the secret that veils Boothnes and keeps the daughter of its owners
behind a mask--a mystery that takes a fantastic turn as the entire cruise ship
vanishes with Tom’s family aboard--as if swallowed up into the depths of the
sea!