Alien Boat. Isolated Showers, #7

Drake has found evidence of extraterrestrial life, and now it's on a little orange disc. He's a technician aboard an advanced sonar-radar system on an oil rig, where life is so hard that it's hard to want to follow orders. And of course his orders are to destroy the evidence. Now the fate of the planet is in the hands of a depressed young man who feels like he has nothing to lose. Matthew Atkinson sets sail with a psychological, sea-salty SHORT STORY from his collection, Isolated Showers, in which minds can get screwed harder than bodies.