The Sigsbee Deep

After decades of foot-dragging and climate science denial, by 2049 the earth had reached, “Hothouse Earth” conditions. Soon the earth's crust began to split and the Pinellas Peninsula broke from mainland Florida. Mays Jackson (48), rushed to protect his two children in the house above, “Jackson’s Salvage Yard,” the family business. Later that day when the residents of Pinellas County realize what has happened, there is rioting and chaos. The peninsula, now an island, begins a slow slide down the continental coast into the Gulf of Mexico while Florida submerges into the sea.

Three years later, ‘New Pinellas Island’ has returned to a routine of survival, except that the Gulf is infested with giant killer Krakefish that can consume any wooden or fiberglass vessel that tries to make the journey to New Orleans.

Mays with his creative inventiveness has assisted the islanders with agriculture, water collection, and windmills—until USN retired captain, Martin Ullman informs Mays and his best friend Chris Mann, that the island is sliding towards The Sigsbee Deep, a place 17,000 feet deep in the middle of the Gulf, and they must escape before the Island and the piece of the continental shelf below it, will tip into the Sigsbee.

But, the problem is the Krake. No ship can traverse the Gulf. Mays invents a 24-foot boat with three-foot sharpened spikes that protrude from the hull and can spear any attacking Krake. When they test the boat, it works but Mays fears it can be overturned, and there aren’t any larger boats on the island. Mays is concerned that he is under the watchful eye of Hoss Krule, patriarch of the Krule clan, a well-armed family of thieves and killers.

Calling upon his resourcefulness, Mays invents a junkyard-built steel submarine that can not be eaten by the Krake. He must put himself, his children, and his friends into it and make the 250-mile journey across the Krake-infested Gulf to his wife in Louisiana, without alerting the Krule family of their intentions.

Krule finds out and tries to steal the submarine for himself. But he is bested by Mays and he rushes to take to the sea in the sub. Thus begins a chase and a battle at sea when Krule tries to find and sink the submarine with the 24-foot spiked boat. Chris had outfitted the sub with armed torpedos which Mays fires onto the boat.

Later, Mays has an undersea battle with a giant Krake that attacks the sub, despite the spikes.