Posted by Kelly on May 23, 1999 at 22:47:43: In Reply to: Read this, please! posted by Nebo on May 22, 1999 at 11:20:08:
Kelly
: Hi to all!!!
: Planning to translate my OG sites in English, I need someone who correct my translation: my English teacher is in vacance, so I thought to you. Please read my summary of 1st season (below) and tell me the errors (grammatical or about the contents)you'll find in it.
: Thank you very much,
: Nebo
: Jason (David Hoflin) and Brett (Jeffrey Walker) are the sons of Dianne Bates, an oceanic researcher who is coming to begin work at ORCA (Oceanic Research Centre of Australia), an underwater oceanic research centre which is situated close the Great Barrier Reef. Brett like to live in that futuristic place, and gets friends named Froggy and Zoe, contemporaries of him; but Jason doesn't like to miss his friends on the mainland and go live underwater.
: One day, to help his mother in her work, Jason had to launch on the head of a whale a little device, which will pick up the whale's recall. But, when Jason tries to launch the device, a girl dressed with rags appears in the ocean and asks him to not hurt the whale. Jason is astonished, and the girl disappeared, diving in the ocean.
: Of course no one believed this strange story, and Dianne thinks her son didn't launch the device because he wanted to boycott his mother's work at ORCA and return to the mainland.
: Vanessa Lane, a girl who is as intelligent as arrogant , comes to ORCA. Zoe, Froggy and Brett immediately play a joke on her; avenging herself, Vanessa waits till Brett gets up on a boat, and then she untied the rope which keep the boat close to the ORCA platform. Brett can't drive the boat, the radio doesn't run, and plus it rains, so it's impossible for the rescuers to find the boy. Next morning, the waves take the boat to an island. Brett has got a temperature, but a mysterious girl, who seems to live there, cures and rescues him. Before taking Brett back to the boat, where the ORCA rescuers will find him, the girl reveals her name:
: Neri (Marzena Godecki).
: Now Brett believes what happened to his brother some days ago,is true. Jason gets the licence to drive small boats, wanting to find the island where the girl lives. One day, Neri is imprisoned by one of the fishing-nets, put illegaly in the ocean by some fishermen, which Jason and Brett have to remove. He made the girl free, Jason asked her to let him and his brother come to where she lives, and Neri promised to reply to him the day after. The next day, Neri let Jason and Brett come to her island, saying Charley gave her permission.
: Charley is the way Neri calls the whale which is being studied by Dianne: Neri can talk with the whale and dive for a long time without breathing; she also has to get wet frequently or she'll get dehydrated. Jason and Brett start to go to Neri's island every day to play with her, keeping the secret of her existence from all.
: But Neri wants to see where her new friends live too, so Jason and Brett have to take her to ORCA. With a false access card made by Froggy (very skilled with computers) and one of Vanessa's uniforms, Neri can get into the research centre. Vanessa starts to annoy them and Damien (one of Jason's friends) falls in love with Neri.
: Dianne and her assistant/philosopher Winston Seth (who tells a lot of unknown proverbs) noticed on the radar a little mammalian (Neri) who can dive and talk to Charley. Jason and Brett try to hide Neri's existence from their mother; but when, during a dive, Dianne almost drowned, but she's rescued by Neri, under the sight of an astonished Winston.
: Dianne obtains Neri's permission to study the physiology of the girl and, despite what Jason and Brett were afraid of, she doesn't treat Neri as the object of an experiment, but as a daughter. And Neri repays, because she had never known her mother: she lived her childhood on the island only with her father, now dead.
: But at ORCA there's a spy of UBRI, which is a rival research centre; Billy, the spy's name, steals one of Dianne's tapes of Charley's recall. With that tape Dr. Hellegreen, leader of UBRI, draws Charley into a bay where he is imprisoned by an electric-net.
: Neri asks her friends to rescue Charley, so Jason and Brett, needing help, have to reveal Neri's secret to their friends: Froggy, Zoe, Damien, Jodie (a girl a little stupid, the only friend of Vanessa) and Lee (the Commander's daughter). Even Vanessa discovers the secret, and the kids have to take her with them.
: The day after, some of the ORCA kids get into the UBRI building and draw Dr. Hellegreen away from the controls of the electric-net; some other kids , helped by Billy (who doesn't like Hellegreen's real purpose with the whale) switch off the electricity of the net. Finally, the other kids cut the supports of the net, then Neri helps Charley to escape.
: But the happiness doesn't go on: winter is coming, and Neri has to migrate with Charley. She promise her friends she'll come back the next few years..
: END
So here you go. I made the corrections so everything should be as is. Hope this helps. Your friend,
Kelly