The wind slammed into Boxer. He grabbed hold of the<br >support bar. Under the woolen face mask he wore， his beard<br >was covered with ice. He glanced at Cowly， his EXO. Ice<br >covered the lower part of his face mask too. And the goggles<br >he wore made him look like some kind of monster.<br > Boxer fought the need to drop below the rim of the outside<br >bridge. A force nine storm was blowing. The combination of<br >wind， snow and SUbTfreezing temperatures made life on The<br >Shark s bridge a living heli.<br > Boxer wiped the snow from his own goggles and looked<br >down at the console of the COMCOMP. The bridge unit<br >had malfunctioned. And because of the various electrical<br >and electro-magnetic disturbances， the master unit on the<br >main bridge was erratic.<br > Boxer keyed the communications officer. "Are you still in<br >contact with our protecting angle?" he asked.<br ><br ><br ><br ><br >