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destruction on the rocks.
De Beers.The famous South African diamond cartel. Named for the South African farmer who sold
his diamond-laden lands to Cecil Rhodes for a few thousand dollars.
De Havilland Beaver.Type of bush plane in which Stokes flies Pitt to Kunghit Island. The plane was
built in 1967. Features a Pratt and Whitney R-985 Wasp engine with 450 horsepower.
Deep Abyss Engineering.Undersea exploration company that hosts the party where Maeve Fletcher
is reunited with Pitt. Also the company that leases the Glomar Explorer to NUMA.
Dempsey, Paul.Captain of the Ice Hunter. Dempsey grew up on a ranch on the Wyoming-Montana
border and ran away to sea after graduating from high school and worked on the fishing boats out of
Kodiak, Alaska. Later became a captain on an ice-breaking salvage tug. When the salvage company he
worked for became debt-ridden, he was hired by NUMA. He is described as broad-shouldered and
thick-waisted, habitually standing with his legs wide set. Gray-haired and clean-shaven with a briar pipe
perpetually jutting from the corner of his mouth.
Diamonds.Stones that formed the basis of the vast Dorsett fortune. Merely crystallized carbon, they
are chemically the sisters to graphite and coal. Arthur Dorsett claims their only practical application is that
they happen to be the hardest substance known to man, and that alone makes them essential for the
machining of metals and drilling through rock. The word diamond comes from the Greek and means
"indomitable." The Greeks and later the Romans wore them as protection from wild beasts and human
enemies. The first diamond engagement ring was given by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria to Mary of
Burgundy in 1477. The notion of a diamond engagement ring did not take hold until the late 1800s.
Dorsett, Anson.Son of Charles Dorsett and Mary Winkleman. Grandfather of Arthur Dorsett. Died
in 1910.
Dorsett, Arthur.Maeve and Deirdre's father. Head of a diamond empire second only to De Beers
and the sixth-richest man in the world. Chairman of Dorsett Consolidated Mining Limited. A recluse.
Only child of Henry and Charlotte Dorsett. Born on Gladiator Island in 1941. At the age of eighteen, he
entered the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. After graduating with a degree as a mining
engineer, he worked for De Beers in South Africa for five years. Was married to the former Irene
Calvert. A giant of a man with the hairy muscular build of a professional wrestler. Has coarse and wiry
sandy-colored hair. His face is ruddy and as fierce as the black eyes that stare from beneath heavy,
scraggly brows. His skin is rough and tanned by long days in the sun. A huge mustache curls downward