Doom 3™: Maelstrom

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DAVID RODRIGUEZ LOOKED AT A SEISMIC map of the ocean floor, focusing on the mammoth Mid-Atlantic Ridge—the world’s greatest mountain chain, although miles under the surface of the ocean.

He saw a massive network of fissures—potential problem areas—all at different depths, spread throughout the ridge. Each area fed a steady stream of real-time information to the lab’s computers.

Only days ago the lab got an early warning about a good-sized plate shift that was bound to produce some major fissures. But the information coming from the probes—detailing the stress to the continental plates, the depth of bedrock, the possible path of erupting magma—showed that the Ballard Lab itself was not in any danger. Good thing too. An evacuation would be costly, not to mention years of work lost down the hydrothermal tube.

But the probes also showed that this latest seismic spur would create a new series of thermal spouts not too far from the lab.

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