The Watch Below
Doc Radford, the Exec, Wallis, and First Officer Dickson, together with two badly injured and hysterical nurses... All of them stuck in the pitch dark, bleak cold of a hull several fathoms under water.
Unkind chance, instead of killing them, had left them with oxygen tanks and stores of food.
Somehow they had to find a way to stay sane long enough to make a new home in this strange environment.
James White
James White is the creator of the famed Sector General stories about a huge intergalactic, multi-species hospital. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1928 and has lived there his entire life. White's writing is particularly noteworthy for endlessly inventive aliens and alien environments. He has been writing science fiction since 1953. Besides the Sector General stories and novels, perhaps his most famous works are the novelThe Watch Below, and the Hugo nominated story "Custom Fitting." In addition to his professional work, James White has been a mainstay of Irish Fandom for more than forty years, contributing distinguished and creative essays to fanzines like Slant and Hyphen.