Posted by Nebo on May 22, 1999 at 11:20:08:
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 to 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 get friend of Froggy and Zoe, contemporaries of him; but Jason doesn't like to miss his friend on the mainland and go to live underwater.
A day, to help his mother in her work, Jason have to launch on the head of a whale a little device, which will pick up the whale's recall. But, when Jason try to launch the device, a girl dressed with rags appears in the ocean and ask him to hurt not the whale. Jason is astonished, and the girl disappear diving in the ocean.
Of course no one believe this strange story, and Dianne thinks her son didn't launch the device because he wants to boycott his mother's work at ORCA and return to the mainland.
Vanessa Lane, an as intelligent as arrogant girl, come to ORCA. Zoe, Froggy and Brett make immediately her a joke; avenging herself, Vanessa wait that Brett get up a boat, and then she untie the rope which keep the boat close 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 temperature, but a mysterious girl, who seems to live there, cures and rescues him. Before to take back Brett to the boat, where the ORCA rescuers will find him, the girl reveals her name:
Neri (Marzena Godecki).
Now Brett believe what happened ti his brother some days ago. Jason get the licence to drive small boats, wanting to find the island where the girl live. A day, Neri is imprisoned by one of the fishing-nets, putted illegaly in the ocean by some fishermen, which Jason and Brett have to remove. Made the girl free, Jason ask her to let him and his brother to come where she live, and Neri promise to reply him the day after. Next day, Neri let come Jason and Brett to her island, saying Charley give her the permission.
Charley is the way Neri call the whale which is being studied by Dianne: Neri can talk with the whale and dive for long times without breathing; she also have to wet frequently her skin or she'll get dehydrate. Jason and Brett start to go to Neri's island every day to play with her, and keeping secret her existence with 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 start to annoying and Damien (one of Jason's friends) fall in love for Neri.
Dianne and his assistant/philosopher Winston Seth (who tell a lot of unknew proverbs) notice on the radar a little mammalian (Neri) who dive and talk to Charley. Jason and Brett try to hide Neri's existence to their mother; but when, during a diving, Dianne risks to drown, 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 a the object of an experiment, but as a daughter. And Neri repay, 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, this is the spy's name, steals on of Dianne's tapes of Charley's recall. With that tape Dr. Hellegreen, leader of UBRI, draws Charley into a bay where it is imprisoned by an electrized-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 Vanessa's friend) 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 UBRI building and draw Dr. Hellegreen away of the controls of the electrized-net; some kids else, 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 thesupports of the net, then Neri help Charley to escape.
But the happiness doesn't go on: winter is incoming, and Neri has to migrate with Charley; she promise her friends she's going to come back the next years..
END