Winter was starting to feel increasingly like a fifth wheel as he walked close to the marine squad, the two science officers and the security chief. True enough, seeing Dressler and Brekke in charge of the immediate happenings was significantly more encouraging that trusting in Garner to care about who lived or died.<br/><br/>He listened to the exchange between the segreant and the security captain, and pictured what he knew of the layout of the science wing, which in truth was only the nearer sections. Dressler was right: the submersible bay would almost certainly still be unflooded. It had airlock doors on both the outer and inner sides.<br/><br/>"Hey," he said, looking towards Dressler. "Nobody's asking me, but I know for a fact that I could ferry a few people - no more than three in addition to myself - across to the sub bay from the main structure. It shouldn't be breached, but the console there should give us a better sense of what's going on in the rest of the structure, right?"<br/><br/>He turned to look at Sophie and Abby. "One of the swamp crawlers would carry some more people to the top level, which we know is level with the water surface right now. Going in at two levels gives us the best possible chance of finding a way through, no? Especially if we can tactically open and reseal doors and use the bilge system to make a path through the structure, right?"<br/><br/>The passed a couple of security guards going in the opposite direction, responding to Dressler's order for them to keep an eye on things at the landing pad. As they went through the commons hall, Winter could see that groups were already forming up, eager to find out of the promised evacuation was finally happening. No doubt they would be relieved to learn that it was. Winter caught the eye of Sayida Alnoor, whose husband had been one of the WY technicians working the research wing when the crash had happened. He swallowed a lump in his throat. As eager as everyone was to get out of here, leaving Almayer was essentially giving up on the hope of finding any of the missing people alive. Then again, perhaps the marines would locate some survivors...if they managed to get anywhere near the Doramin, that was.