WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.200 Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:11.679 life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:14.320 We offer you. 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:24.280 Escape, Escape design to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:27.000 of to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.320 You are somewhere in the Pacific, out of Letty in 7 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:50.000 the Philippines, charting a course of south by southeast, when 8 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.399 out of the deep of the sea a new volcano 9 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.960 is born, and your ship is caught in the middle 10 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.759 of it, from which there is no escape. 11 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.200 Listen now as Escape brings you Vincent mceugh's story The 12 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:24.599 Boiling Sea. 13 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:30.799 It you would have been an easy trip. It was 14 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.640 the spring of forty five, the war was almost over, 15 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.280 and what few Japs were left that far south didn't 16 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.879 figure to give us any trouble. I was first made 17 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:42.599 of the Hope by Victory, hauling cargo with the Landings 18 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.239 and the Philippines. But this trip we detoured south to 19 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.159 the Tailee Island of Karazuti and the Malocas to pick 20 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.040 up a detachment of rangers, a demolition team, and bring 21 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.719 them up to Samar. We cleared for another about eighteen 22 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.920 thirty hours, and his darkness fell. I went out of 23 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.760 there I found Lieutenant Drury the range of CEO and 24 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:07.040 the stop sergeant watching gam Kamora, the volcano over on 25 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:07.480 the island. 26 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.199 I'm McCallum eating mate. Quite a sight, isn't it? 27 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.159 Sure is? But thenver get better. 28 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:20.759 We passed closer to it after Nati and the dog. 29 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.759 You can see the lava spouting like fourth of July. 30 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.159 We got a look at a small one back on 31 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:29.599 Casuuti inactive. So wle group of violins on both sides 32 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.280 of the strait is volcanic, you're telling. 33 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.840 Me, tryumph Now you can have my share them. That 34 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.599 big baby there used to keep us awake nights rumbling. 35 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.719 They aren't exactly conducing to peace of mind, I'll admit, sergeant, 36 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.039 but they're very interesting. I'd like a chance to study 37 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.800 one more closely. Not for me, Lieutenant, Well, probably won't 38 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:48.560 get another chance. 39 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:52.120 Now. The men all comfortable, Sergeant, Well. 40 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.560 It ain't the Queen Mary, sir, but they're okay. 41 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.120 Sorry, this baby wasn't meant but troop transplant, no matter. 42 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.240 We're used to improvising. 43 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.199 Well night, gentlemen. 44 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:08.319 Nice sharing, nice guy, the best one of them. 45 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:13.680 Guys with principles serious, you know, educating them kind usually 46 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.599 get clobbered first thing, but he's come through, bloody. You 47 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:21.599 have a time back there in not much Jap radio station, 48 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.319 half starved out already. Of course they put up a fight, 49 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:25.639 they always do, but. 50 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:26.639 Not so bad. 51 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.919 Hey, look at that thing Belgian smoke a mile high, flashing. 52 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.039 Like yeah, spectacular? 53 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:40.280 All right, Hey, lieutenant, could I could I interest you 54 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.000 in a human scalp tand with mangrove bark got me 55 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.039 a couple of extra back there someone cheap? 56 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.680 Oh, thanks Sigon. I got one scalp. I hope that'll 57 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:49.360 last me the rout. 58 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.599 That night, for the first time since we left home, 59 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:56.319 I couldn't. 60 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.719 Get to sleep, and tried reading a while and gave 61 00:03:58.759 --> 00:03:59.280 that up too. 62 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.879 Finally I got a cup of coffee and took one 63 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:03.919 up to Hannigan. 64 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:04.199 On the bridge. 65 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.479 Hey, thanks Mac, just what I needed. 66 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:10.719 We sipped our coffee quietly. Bosum stood silently at the wheel. 67 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:13.919 The time is over four twenty five hours. We were 68 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.959 steaming up through the Maluka passage, of course, one degree 69 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:22.040 true speed, eighteen knots, a smooth, gentle swell. The phosphorescence 70 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:24.199 in the bower wash was brightened enough to show hands 71 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:25.839 and faces it was peaceful. 72 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:34.079 Hey mac ay mac, you smell anything coffee? No, come here, 73 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:41.680 stand over here. Yeah, little sulfur and something that smells. 74 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:43.680 Like wet does That's what I thought too, sir. 75 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:45.199 Well, couldn't it say? 76 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.480 Isn't there a volcano over there on Helmhera or you 77 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:48.800 might be getting a little land breeze? 78 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.600 Yeah, but we passed it an hour back. I'll take it. 79 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.959 I got them, you guys spitting over the sat up there. 80 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.680 What's the matter, Brian, I just. 81 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.879 Happened to notice my intake more is heating up very much. Well, 82 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.839 it's supposed to be about twenty five degrees centigrade around here. 83 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:06.040 It's twenty nine. 84 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:09.439 Now we're pulling sludge too. Looks like pomus. 85 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:27.800 Okay, I guess you better call the captain Hagan. Smell that, captain. 86 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.279 Yes, you check the ships to account. 87 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.240 Yes, sir, Boyd and Parman went over to nothing wrong. 88 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:43.560 Yes, well stop the engines. Yes, mister Hannigan, you check our. 89 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.079 Position, Yes, Captain, it's verified here on the chart sonic 90 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:47.720 depth finder on mister greng Jane. 91 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.680 Yes, sir, turned it out right away, reads one one. 92 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:51.639 Four three fables. 93 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.279 I'll see here this is where we are about thirty 94 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.680 five miles west of Kumbakia, and how the hero nautical 95 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.600 miles that is? Yes, over here you see less than 96 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.079 three miles northwest. You've got a bigea. Somebody reported the 97 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.319 show there once, hasn't been found again since. Might be 98 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.120 anywhere in the general vicinity I see here. It's marked 99 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:15.160 eighteen fathoms he the existence stand for reported. 100 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.319 February eighteen seventy one. 101 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.079 And if there is something there, it can't be anything 102 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.519 but a submarine mountain that those depths all around him. 103 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.399 Yeah, it's probably volcanic. One of those buggers that push up, 104 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.120 you know, and sink back down again. Got some of 105 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.480 them up in the burning. But all we've got to 106 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.360 go on is this old captain that came through here 107 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.920 in eighteen seventy one, probably a whaler. Didn't care where 108 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:36.360 he was so long as he had his foot on 109 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.040 a fish. You think he could have got his bearings 110 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:38.600 and helm my hair. 111 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:39.399 I can't tell. 112 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.319 I suppose Now here's this old fellow dawdling through here. 113 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.480 In February northwest monsoon at its height, fairly good winds, 114 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.240 mostly north or western north current sets about two knights 115 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.360 of the wind. So if he's out in his reckoning, 116 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.360 you see, it's probably because he's farther over to the 117 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:54.560 south of east than he thought. 118 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.920 Like this, that puts us pretty close to the trouble. 119 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.560 Go up to the southeast, because we don't know how 120 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:02.199 far art he was. 121 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:06.480 If he was out now here, we could go this way, 122 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.879 but it seems foolish to backtack on our course and 123 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.160 then go west to get fair. Don't see why we 124 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.480 wouldn't be safe if we cut across the angle to 125 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.079 the southwest. That sounds right to me, Kevin, Yes, we 126 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:17.800 should be safe enough. 127 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:19.360 Well, let's hope. So it's the Grand Jeans. 128 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:22.279 Then by the death finder and sing out if again. Initially, yes, sir, 129 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.160 the ship was a donge GQ. The engine stopped. The 130 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:33.480 nearer ocean silence hung over everything. 131 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.879 They're still dark, but a soft glimmer was beginning to 132 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:37.879 show behind the peaks. 133 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:39.920 And how maham, it's not the engines half speed? 134 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:40.920 Yes, they're half speed. 135 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.920 The returning pulse of the engines, like a reviving heartbeat, 136 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:52.720 seemed to bring the ship back to LFE. 137 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:55.040 You were about two twenty five to twenty. 138 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.399 Five our by victory began to gather away, turning. The 139 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:00.879 person got her around, met her and settled on course. 140 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.680 Haddigan stood by the bridge farm for minutes. 141 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.720 We stood quietly, watching and waiting. 142 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.240 Now there was a rosy smear in the east behind us, 143 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.839 are glooming on the sea. I could just make out 144 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:13.959 the bow, and a man silhouetted in the cross nest 145 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:14.560 a bubble. 146 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:19.240 Right. 147 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.920 Ronnie engine Room says thirty two degree. 148 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:23.680 Up, three degrees. 149 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:29.360 Yeah, stand the phonness to Hannigan, report any change. Another 150 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.600 few minutes we'll be able to see a little more. 151 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.159 Captain man in the cross nest. He's waiting. 152 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.159 Tomina reads thirty eight craves rocks that had full left rudder, 153 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:41.279 full left rudder. 154 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.799 We could see it now, not five hundred yards ahead. 155 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.879 Nothing in a nightmare. It had ever been so awful 156 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.000 as that jagged rocky crest, hunching and lifting like the 157 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:57.399 back of a great dawn lizard. 158 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.720 In the yellow light. It came fuming of the seas, 159 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:02.559 slimy with the first mud of creation. 160 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:06.200 The slow swell pitched up on it. We could fill 161 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.879 its deep grumbling roar through the noise of the engines. 162 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.200 The ship was turning now. No one spoke. We stared 163 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.960 with slow understanding of the horror that began to form 164 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.080 in all our minds. The monster was not a single peak. 165 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:20.759 The ridge we'd seen coming up in the southwest was 166 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.919 extending itself in a long curve of points and benches. 167 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.240 All across the south caper turning, keeper turning. But it 168 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:27.320 was already too late. 169 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.759 Clear across the red pink wash of dawn, a black 170 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.879 spur joined under the east, and when we looked north, 171 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.960 the swell was lipping up on a jag of blue 172 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:38.600 rocket thickened to the west and hooked on down into 173 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:43.600 the southwest. The hawk by victory was completely encircled. We 174 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:47.080 were trapped in the middle of an emerging wall came up. 175 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.480 You are listening to The Boiling Sea tonight's presentation of escape. 176 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.279 Keep the family intact this holiday weekend by driving safely, 177 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.360 observe speed laws, stay on your side of the road, 178 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.639 and don't try to save time at the risk of 179 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.879 losing a lifetime. Driving's more relaxed, more fun that way, 180 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.360 and safer too. And now back to escape And the 181 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:45.799 second act of The Boiling Sea. 182 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:52.840 Took a few seconds for the full impact of the 183 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:57.600 situation that hits encircle, trapped in a crater of jagged 184 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.879 rising peaks on every quarter of the compass. 185 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.279 Still nobody said anything until Captain has It spoke in 186 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:04.519 a quiet voice. 187 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.360 All right, stop the engine. 188 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.480 Then we all know. The wires dropped away, and the hope. 189 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:15.759 By victory settled floating dead, and a fuming black brown 190 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.279 lake that bubbles like muddy coming to a boiled the 191 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.120 terrible stony rumbling jot up to the soles of my shoes. 192 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.559 Well, I got you fellows into this. 193 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:33.440 Oh no, cap you did the best you could. 194 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.519 How could anyone know where an unshot at mountain would 195 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:40.480 come up out of the sea, Hagan. 196 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.200 I don't want to get you fellas too excited up there, 197 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.360 but you better quit smoking. We're getting sixty eight degrees 198 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.279 centigrade on this thing. Got any anchine went boiled? What 199 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:51.919 is going on up there? 200 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:53.039 Brownie? 201 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:54.039 We're in a volcano. 202 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.120 Well, I always told you something like this would happen. 203 00:11:58.559 --> 00:11:59.759 You know, you gotta watch. 204 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:07.480 You're doing sixty eight degrees integrate, sir, Well Jonah made it. 205 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.600 Yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a hole in it somewhere. 206 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.960 We can wait till it settles down. Get the boats out. 207 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.919 Yes, by gully, I mean idea, mister McCallum, if we 208 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.039 do a good job of Savene, maybe they'll forgive us. 209 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:21.840 Or getting into it in the first place. 210 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.080 No one mentioned the chance that we might never get out. 211 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.840 We lived in the crater of a mountain interruption. We're 212 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.000 still working and thrusting, but its force had began to 213 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:40.519 die down. 214 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.360 In the west and southwest. 215 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:46.159 Its highest peaks through maybe fifty sixty feet above the sea. 216 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.600 In the north and northwest much lower. We could see 217 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.120 the swell breaking over two places. 218 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.480 Sir Hannigan, you will check and recheck the position. 219 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:54.720 Yes, Captain, it's the Grand Gene. You will take bearings 220 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.639 and measurements of the rim, starting at zero degrees and 221 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.120 working all around the companies. Yes, Karen, you will pass 222 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.279 the word that we're I'm going to try getting out 223 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.440 of here just as soon as the first shark is over. 224 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.480 I don't wanted to think we're not doing anything. Yes, 225 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.120 might let the people down in the engine room now, 226 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:14.279 and the gun crew and tell Lieutenant Drury and his rangers. 227 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:26.080 Yes him, all right, thank you, gentlemen. I carried the 228 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:27.639 message to the other officers. 229 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.919 Men were hanging over the rail, looking at the dead 230 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:34.039 fish in the Pubian water. Everybody was coughing sickly. Gases 231 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.240 came up in spurts and slow blobs. Here and there 232 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.759 are small guys that paddered down stones and mud on 233 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.720 the water. There was a washer gloomy sun on the 234 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.399 crags to the west. Beyond lay the glimmer of the 235 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.799 Molucca Passage. Like the whole of life itself, it seemed 236 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:49.480 very distant. 237 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:49.679 Now. 238 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:52.600 At breakfast, the captain was still cheer. 239 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:55.960 All right, gentlemen, we may as well eat. May not 240 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.639 have another chance for a while. What do you think 241 00:13:58.679 --> 00:13:59.159 so well? 242 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:00.919 Looks as if the one is about over. 243 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.639 We get the boats out after breakfast. See if we 244 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:08.159 can't find a hole in it? Just a western omelet 245 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.240 for me mass. What if we can't do that, maybe 246 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.320 we can find a place to get the boats across, 247 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.919 isn't father? I'm a hero, you know about thirty six miles, 248 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:21.440 But I'd hate to wish I knew more about how 249 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.279 these volcanoes behaved. Might sink down again in an hour 250 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.080 or two, or it might keep building up. 251 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.879 Could I make a suggestion, Captain Hazard, Yes, go ahead, 252 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:34.840 Lieutenant Drury my boys are training demolition. Word we can 253 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:36.559 find the right place. I think we might be able 254 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.159 to blast a hole big enough of the ship to 255 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:38.600 get through. 256 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.600 Yes, thank you, Lieutenant. Yes, we've been thinking the same thing. 257 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.080 Only trouble is a blast like that might set the 258 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.000 whole business off. I suppose we'd better wait till we've 259 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:47.960 tried everything else. 260 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:48.279 First. 261 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:49.960 We take the boats out right after breakfast. 262 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.559 Yes, mister McCallum, you will take one and go north 263 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:54.720 to the rim, follow it to the east. Mister Hannigan, 264 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.320 we'll take the other south and follow it west. Lieutenant Drury, 265 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.960 a detail of your rangers can go in each boat. 266 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.159 What about communications? 267 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.679 Yeah, too bad. We don't have radios in the boats. 268 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.919 We'll have to use flare guns. One flare if you 269 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.279 find a hole big enough for the ship, confirm it 270 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.200 with a handlead then two flares to come on the 271 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:22.840 usual recall signal. Well, gentlemen, we're in God's hands now. 272 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:45.200 Fifty yard sir. 273 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:47.399 These are and slowly busting right into the rocks. 274 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:55.639 Yes, sir, take a look at that water man, don't 275 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:58.960 see anything like its slimy gas bubbling up. 276 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:03.200 I'm very inviting. Take a look at what's the head, Lieutenant. 277 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.720 Yeah, it doesn't look like any rock I've ever seen before. 278 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:14.720 It's something monstrous, something tortured about it. Yeah, all yours, lieutenant, Ready, 279 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:16.320 Sergeant Fata ready. 280 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:29.559 Sir easy Boston, All right, old, steady, all. 281 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:30.840 Right, you guys go. 282 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.960 Okay, good now, I hand over with the pigs. Get 283 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.000 specimens of the rock. 284 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:46.320 Botell. 285 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:47.559 You're going up the top and check. 286 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:56.519 Yes, this doesn't look very promising. 287 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:58.879 No, it's only twenty feet high, but we haven't got 288 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.600 enough explosive to blast through. Here must be gap somewhere. 289 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.240 There's vota on top of it. 290 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:11.880 Vota can you see anything? And he breaks to the 291 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.359 east and to see any head? 292 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.519 Talk for sure though, All right, come back, we'll go 293 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:20.160 down farther. 294 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.519 We cruise slowly along the rim through the dirty, brown, 295 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.000 black simmering water, stopping every few hundred yards to break 296 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.519 off specimens of rock. It was hot, we felt as 297 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.000 if our bodies were drenched in a heated grease. The 298 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.119 crater had a general downhill trend to the eastward in 299 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.880 the northeast sectory. It came to what appeared the lowest 300 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.359 point here, the swell broke Claire across the shallow pitch. 301 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.039 This is the best place for blasting we've seen yet. 302 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:55.079 Yeah, it doesn't look bad. It might be possible. 303 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.079 Let me take four of my men on those rocks 304 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.559 and try to find some likely openings for charges, just 305 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:00.000 in case. 306 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.880 Okay, moving class again, busting listen drawing. 307 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.440 Those rocks are wet and that's swell. There's plenty of power. 308 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:07.079 Watch yourselves. 309 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.039 Don't worry about us. Maybe we don't mind wet feet. 310 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:11.759 Uh huh, center razy busson. 311 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:18.759 Okay, boys, horever we go. Come on, get the let 312 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.559 out a right man, spring up. 313 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:23.720 Look for the cracks, all off, Boston. 314 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.799 Can you stand by with the line secured, ready to 315 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:26.920 toss him just in case? 316 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:29.119 How about this, mate? 317 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.480 Do you think we'll have to try it? 318 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:31.200 Last? Is that? 319 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:35.519 I don't know what looks like? Maybe unless Hannigan found 320 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:36.319 something we shouldn't. 321 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:37.079 I don't know. 322 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.759 Blasting in this stuff is like letting a fire cracker 323 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:41.839 on a dynamite factory. 324 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:43.799 May have to take the chance. 325 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.359 Yeah, yeah, look back there until the ship a dirty 326 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.480 yellow guck. We're going to break out the gas mass 327 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:58.000 we had gas man, What was. 328 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:59.160 That an explosion? 329 00:18:59.240 --> 00:18:59.400 Sir? 330 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.839 Underneath this the whole thing's going on sinking. 331 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.200 Look the man they're sinking from the line, los and hurry, hey, 332 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:09.839 dry grab the line, get. 333 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:10.279 Your man on it. 334 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.440 We'll pull you in. That's it, passing on out of 335 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:14.279 your hurry. 336 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:15.720 All right, the wrong on? 337 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:21.000 Hey, bring him in he fast as you can. Okay, 338 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.839 his drawery, get it, then hurry home? 339 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:24.680 On? Come on? 340 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.359 What's hurting the whole things? 341 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:28.720 Morning? 342 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:29.680 Keep having foot? 343 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:31.000 Where's moto? 344 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:31.799 I got him right here? 345 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:32.400 Come on up. 346 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:36.720 Heat, God of Heaven, keep a lgmantic for all right. 347 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.720 Here's the next te to be hoisted in us three? 348 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:43.720 All right, coming easier, now, let's hang me foro. Come on, 349 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.680 fellow cramp one more trouble man, all right, craig, so 350 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:48.079 we can. 351 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:48.519 Get out of here. 352 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:49.400 The line's coming too. 353 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:53.599 First trouble, where's trouble? White little tennant? Stop him holding drawery. 354 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:54.440 You can't trouble us. 355 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:56.480 Tell him that you can't come back in without a 356 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:57.920 line tying around his waist wall. 357 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:00.359 I'm going to all right, but tying to that line 358 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:01.119 then we'll be able to. 359 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:01.640 Hide you back. 360 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.000 They went over the side, disappearing into the murk on 361 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:09.880 the sludgy water. 362 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:12.839 The shocks were increasing in violence. Now they jared their 363 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:13.799 teeth and my heads. 364 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:16.240 We looked toward this ship and saw the western rim 365 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:18.000 of the crater thrusting up in a great. 366 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:18.440 Wall behind it. 367 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.480 Then Walt's head appeared close to the boat, his face black, 368 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:24.200 and he shook a hopeless no. He dived again two 369 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:25.759 or three times, and then let us pull him in. 370 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.880 But Drury wouldn't give up. Come on, pull him in. 371 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:29.839 He's fighting us. 372 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:33.240 We'll fight him back and get him inmber this boat. Yes, sir, here, 373 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.759 I'll give you a hat. He let me cool. 374 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:38.680 We gotta get the bubble. 375 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:41.440 Let me go. You can't waste any more time. Yeah, 376 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:42.480 it's no use, straw. 377 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:43.400 But he's in there somewhere. 378 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.359 We can't just let him stay there. Man, No, no, honey, 379 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:50.119 all right, laws and take her off. 380 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:52.960 But I'm sorry if I'm trouble with Tenor. But he 381 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:53.559 is one man. 382 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:55.160 There are a hundred men back there in the hold 383 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:55.720 by victory. 384 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:57.400 Yeah. 385 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:05.039 Sorry, it's getting worse every minute. 386 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:06.519 I'm gonna do anything. 387 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.640 We gotta do it fair. Hey, look over there with 388 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:09.319 the rock sank. 389 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.240 That GAP's big enough for the ship. Yeah maybe, but 390 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:13.039 is it deep enough. 391 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:15.039 It's gotta be the whole thing. Make a one any 392 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:16.119 minute like a roll of chin. 393 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:21.599 All right, Boston fire, one flat. Walt got the hand lead, 394 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.079 I've got it. Who quote, don't have a drag at. 395 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.880 Ten fathoms a quarter across the gap, sing out if 396 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:36.119 you feel anything. The boat moved slowly across the old 397 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:38.440 edge of the crater and out into the open sea. 398 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.359 Walt, holding the lead line, shook his head at me. 399 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:42.039 He felt nothing. 400 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:45.119 I turned carefully in the swell and carted back into 401 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.839