"I didn't?" Funny, but she really thought she had. "It fell there. I tried to get ahold of it when it first fell in, but my flak vest was causing too much drag, so I had to get out of that, while swimming, and then I almost had my omnicomm when I ran out of air, I touched it with my fingers..."

Sakura sighed almost against his neck. "Now you don't want me around you when I'm all wet?" She let him push her away, glaring at her right hand like it had personally let her down. "If I'd been near a tank wall, I could have run down it, but the walkway comes out over the tank itself. Then when I figured to cut losses and grab my flak vest, the whale's disturbance had pulled it out and down some thirty meters away. By the time I'd surfaced for air and made a running dive for it, it was out of reach."