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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.