Skeleton Sea

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I had some help identifying the wrong words:

I want to thank the following science experts in their fields for information, education, reading the book, giving me terrific suggestions and support: Guy Cochrane, G. Nelson Eby, Raymond C. Murray, Jenny Purcell.

Thanks to Russell Dwiggins for the diving tutorial.

If there are factual or technical errors in Skeleton Sea, they are mine alone.

Thanks to the following for reading and commenting on the book: Wanda Sue Downs, Don Dwiggins, Russell Dwiggins, Quinn Richardson, Catherine Thomas-Nobles, Emily Williams, J.T. Yeager.

An added note of appreciation goes to Emily Williams for consulting on beer, teenage slang, and professorial style;)

To Chuck Williams, for the support, reality checks, patience, wisdom — thank you. Seven houses full.

A big thanks and a margarita toast go to the Cayucos gang.

I have one final thank you, to an amazing man who wanted to read this book, who died before I completed the manuscript.

I first met him as a reader who wrote to tell me how much he enjoyed my series. From there, we struck up a friendship, talking about writing and music (he was a talented musician) and travel and family and the odds and ends that find their way into correspondence. We talked about his illness and — I hope and believe — that gave him a small measure of support. We exchanged some laughs. I smile now, remembering him.

To a smart, funny, talented, deeply kind man: Michael D. MacDonald.