Doomwatch story
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
7 total · 4 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| environmentalism | major | Del Shaw worked as an investigator from the British ecological watchdog group nicknamed Doomwatch. |
| human vs. affliction | major | Contaminated fish caused acromegaly in a number of Balfe island villagers. |
| pollution in society | major | Del Shaw uncovered that a disposal company had illegally dumped an experimental pituitary growth hormone in the sea which ended up causing madness and acromegaly in the Balfe villagers via the eating of contaminated fish. |
| xenophobia in society | major | The villagers shunned Del Shaw, and it took them two years to warm up to Victoria, so on gets the impression they are a xenophobia lot. |
| divine retribution | minor | Some of the villagers though that God had brought their plight upon them as a punishment. |
| oil spills in society | minor | Del Shaw went to investigate an oil tanker spill on a remote isolated village on the island of Balfe. |
| toxic waste management | minor | A British admiral had authorized the dumping of radioactive waste into the sea off the coast of the island of Balfe. |