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Disappointing a <u>big</u> girl! |
You've asked why I stay a bachelor? There goes the best reason I know! |
Huh? |
I might have a son like <u>that!</u> |
I guess Skipper Neilsen re tired before you enrolled at the Academy, didn't he? |
I guess. |
One of the finest men, and officers, alive. A real hero in the best sense of the word in World War Two. He taught us Engineering and Design. Fought like a demon to develop atom subs. |
So? |
So all of a sudden his only son drops out of school, be gins making noises like a pacifist. A real egghead, dogooder, and crackpot! 'Ban the atom tests! Junk the nuclear subs! Spend the mili tary budgetfor peace!' |
A lot of people think like that. |
But <u>they're</u> not Skipper Neilsen's son! It broke his heart. Then when some newspapers called Carl 'the honest, sincere son of a warmongering father' Captain Neilsen resigned from the Navy. Oh, he still keeps his hand in playing around with projects like the 'Lungfish' but it broke him, all the same. |
Have you ever talked to Carl tried to see his side? |
'His' side? I've seen it, all right. A nice, bright yellow! |
Cyclops? |
Sounds like it! Distress call, from a small freighter, between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. One mayday, then...nothing. |
We're stuck tight! |
Skipper! Look at the depth gauge! |
You've got to let us try, Skipper |
'Us?' |
Reef and I can take the Explorer down, clamp it around the eye, and |
You all wait here. I'm going inside, take a look. |
Not <u>alone</u>, you're not! |
How about that! The bow drove half through her, but she sealed herself right up. |
What's more important there's our problem. The bow ram the sawteeth are holding the Shark in the break. If we can cut the ram, the Shark can pull herself loose! |
I think you're right. |
Go back and tell Dr. Neilsen. Have him report to the Skipper. |
Yeah? |
Listen! Hear that? |
I don't hear anything. Maybe you've been down here too long. Why don't you go back up and |
Strange you didn't hear it. OMIT 274F |
Hey you know somethin'? It's getting lighter in here! |
You know it <u>is</u>? |
And if I didn't <u>know</u> better I'd swear we were moving! |
Let's get back to work, and maybe we <u>will</u> be, soon. |
You hear that? |
The sound again? |
Where do you think the voice you heard was coming from? |
Somewhere down there? |
Wonder where Powell and Carney are? |
We'll have to look for them later. |
Well? |
I'm with <u>you!</u> |
Here keep these. It wants me to come alone. |
Oh it does??? |
Dave ! |
What's goin' on in here, Lad? What ? |
I should have suspectcd, when I heard that 'Doctor.' I thought it was your father. |
It was supposed to be. Dad had a heart attack, two days ago. |
How is he ? |
It was moderate. He'll be all right. But it was out of the question, his coming along. |
And they thought <u>you</u> could re place the Skipper? |
You could train someone else. |
Not in two days. Look: Do you think I <u>wanted</u> to come? If it didn't mean so much to Dad proving his depthexplorer it's the last thing I'd want! |
What is it? |
Your 'out.' This came for you. |
My father! He's not ? |
Dead? Matter of fact, he's much better. He's left the hospital. |
What did you mean: I'm 'out?' |
Your father can be in Nome, Alaska, tomorrow. We have two choices: Ask them to send him out in a 'copter', and take you off, or the Shark can put back into Nome... |
You 'trade school boys' are all alike, aren't you? Anybody who doesn't happen to think like a little goldbraided puppet is, ipso facto, a coward! |
<u>You</u> said it. But I won't argue |
Wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, <u>Commander</u>! It just so happens I'm <u>not</u> a coward physical or mental and before I'd risk my father's life... |
We're <u>all</u> risking our lives! |
That may be. But Dad stays where <u>he</u> is, and I'm staying here! |
You're really a mixedup oddball, aren't you? |
Perhaps. But the idea of willingly going to <u>school</u> to spend my <u>life</u> at a Paleozoic pastime that should have disappeared with the thunderlizards I'm referring to War <u>that</u> strikes me as the <u>worst</u> cowardice of all being spiritually yellow! |
You mean <u>nothing</u> is worth fighting for? |
Peace the dignity of man the destiny of the human spirit! Show me a man who says you win <u>those</u> by fighting wars, and <u>I'll</u> show you an idiot! |
You may not <u>win</u> them. But without men like your father, to 'degrade' himself by fighting to preserve them or as much as we have of them they'd have disappeared, <u>long</u> ago! |
Unidentified Flying Objects. |
Then...this is a 'flying saucer?' |
That's enough, Holloway. I've told you before, wearing boards on your shoulders, and parading with a stiff spine doesn't auto matically endow you with back bone ! |
any more than being the son of Captain Neilsen does! |
However our ideas disagree, as I've said before, I'm <u>not</u> a coward! And it happens you've got no choice: Either <u>I</u> take you down there, in the Lungfish, or you don't get there |
I'd sooner swim! |
They're so remote cold beautiful, the stars. But now I wonder |
Yes? |
Which is the one we have to worry about? |
Maybe just 'maybe' when their ship doesn't return they'll decide not to come here, after all. |
But if they <u>do</u>? |
I don't know. |
I wouldn't worry. So long as we have boats like the Tiger Shark and people like you, the Skipper, Dave, Kent, Sir Ian and my father |
And his 'egghead' son! We'll give 'em a <u>rough</u> <u>reception</u>, won't we? |
Dan. And he's taking Alice with him pretty good dive Yvonne. You've been practicing. |
Two hours a day, six days a week. |
Vomit? |
Faint. |
Why don't you shut up and let her talk! Two of us died in the last two days, does that strike you as particularly normal?! |
Mark... |
I'm not finished I loved Greta. A lot. And if maybe, just maybe, someone or some thing killed her, I'd like to hear about it! |
I can't listen to this. |
It's okay. |
Stick around, please? |
You, too? |
He invited me to his house last night. |
These things are wild... What do you think? |
Makes you look like a nun |
All right kids, I tell you what we're gonna do. I've got swimming practice until sixthirty today... |
Yeah... |
That means they're gonna give me the key to the pool so I can lock up when I'm done. |
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