She does wish they had reliable blasters. Ibtisam has a really nice rifle at the base in a locker, but it's not rated for underwater use.

The sub, Ibtisam knows, could drift away or sink before anyone can come back. Especially if its power never comes back on and it doesn't give any signal about where it is. But that's out of their hands. She won't worry.

Ibtisam's huge eyes give her an advantage here. The world is brighter and clearer, and her view is broad. "About to your six. Try and sink a little, Captain, you'll get too close to the surface." She eases from more or less upright to a proper swimming posture and starts to scull gently, only a few tiny bubbles tickling up from her gill pores.