Jeremy Dodge knew the Earth would face starvation if it were not for the science of 'aquaculture'. With the world's population numbering billions, only the extra food being cultivate on the bottom of the sea could feed everyone. But, like the rest of the surface-dwellers, Jeremy did not know what a viscious monopoly undewater cultivation had become. That is, until the dreadufl moment when he himeslef was kidnaped and dragged beneathe the depths.

1957.