"On vacation after the sixth grade, each person chose their own topic for the biology practicum. In the small coral house of the bio-station on Gogol Boulevard, all the biologists gathered. Alice Seleznyova decided to visit an underwater cemetery of sunken Japanese ships that had been sunk by the U.S. Navy at the beginning of 1944 near the Morutu Atoll—and which, over one hundred and fifty years or more, had turned into man-made reefs. Pashka Geraskin, led by romantic dreams of treasures sunk along with the ships, offered to accompany her…"