Cargunka takes a turn in the diving suit. Captain Gell gives him a revolver. Cargunka again confronts a mysterious underwater enemy with a "sodden, white hand" and a "weed-entangled face," manages to fire the pistol at the apparition three times, but then loses consciousness. When he awakens, he is back in the boat; Gell and the ship's carpenter have pulled him out of the wreck, accompanied by "an enormous, naked, sodden-looking human body, that was gripped fiercely to Cargunka, and lashed about with its great legs." The creature is Captain Barstow; he dies of three bullet wounds, although given his waterlogged appearance, it is amazing that he was not already dead by drowning.