She rolled her eyes and smiled playfully, focusing back on what Pope was doing and watching intently. He took out the drone from its case with delicate care, passing it over to John B, who took it in his hands and moved over to the side of the boat. 
"Alright ladies and gentlemen..." he announced in a toast, "to going full Kook." 
He dropped the device directly over the water, a loud splash sounding from over the edge as it hit the surface and immediately began to sink. Collins and Pope quickly took place in front of the screen which displayed the camera feed from the drone, seeing pretty much nothing but blue for a good while. 
"We should be right over it." Collins stated, waiting patiently for the drone to sink all 900 feet to the bottom. 
"And to quote The Hobbit, 'Down, down, to Goblin town. Down, down, you go, my lad.'" Pope sang while they waited to see something different, but despite going down hundreds of feet deep into the ocean, the scene stayed mostly the same throughout. 
The wind began to pick up a little, the weather vane on the hull of the boat spinning wildly and rattling over the waves.  
"The tide's turning!" Kie informed them, as she was in charge of keeping track of the tether, prompting John B to study the GPS and begin instructing JJ and what course should be taken.
Her yell led to Collins breaking her gaze from off the screen to look up at the sky. It had darkened in contrast to its previous brightness, and clouds appeared to be rolling in over them. The wind changed, it suddenly felt stronger, more persistent, it made the waves crash more aggressively against the boat and rock it like the most nauseating amusement park ride that she had ever been on. 
The crack of thunder and flashes of lightning didn't help either. Despite their attempt to wait for the perfect weather to take out the drone, Mother Nature seemed to have other plans in mind. Collins found herself having to hold onto the table to keep herself from stumbling over, trying her best to keep herself grounded while focusing on the monitor carefully. 
"JJ, hold it steady, we're gonna turtle in this storm, man!" John B exclaimed, tracking their location and the coordinates his dad had given them, which told them exactly where the location of the Royal Merchant lay. JJ focused on his single task and frantically steered them through the rough waters. Once it seemed like they were sitting consistently in place, John B turned over to Collins and Pope. "What do we got, guys, come on, what do we see?"
"Nothing, a whole lot of nothing." Pope grumbled as the three of them stared at the display that felt like it'd been frozen blue. For all they knew, that's what it was. How did they know they hadn't just been looking at a glitched screen and they'd already passed over the Royal Merchant?
"We don't know that for sure." Collins protested. "Where are we at, Kie?"
"960!" 
They waited in anticipation for their view to change; they still had quite a bit of depth to go before they knew anything for certain. Collins bit her lip and silently prayed for something to appear, something that would show them that they weren't wrong, that they had found what they were looking for. 
After a few seconds passed, something blurry came across the screen. The three teens squinted at it to try and make out what they were looking at, before they finally came to realization.
"Sand! Bottom! We're at the bottom!" Pope declared, and they all felt like they were able to catch their breaths for a moment after holding it in anticipation.
"You should be seeing something, man." John B said, his eyes fixated on the screen as he searched for any sign of the shipwreck.
Pope controlled the drone, fiddling with the joystick on the monitor to try and move the contraption around to search its surroundings. Kie came around behind them, no rope left to hold as their tether had become fully submerged into the water. They all were waiting in suspense, nearly giving up all hope that they had any chance of finding the Royal Merchant. After all, there were a million other places that it could've been in the ocean and they were only looking at this one spot.