Speaker 1: Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a
Speaker 1: life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, Escape design to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of to day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are somewhere in the Pacific, out of Letty in
Speaker 1: the Philippines, charting a course of south by southeast, when
Speaker 1: out of the deep of the sea a new volcano
Speaker 1: is born, and your ship is caught in the middle
Speaker 1: of it, from which there is no escape.
Speaker 3: Listen now as Escape brings you Vincent mceugh's story The
Speaker 3: Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4: It you would have been an easy trip. It was
Speaker 4: the spring of forty five, the war was almost over,
Speaker 4: and what few Japs were left that far south didn't
Speaker 4: figure to give us any trouble. I was first made
Speaker 4: of the Hope by Victory, hauling cargo with the Landings
Speaker 4: and the Philippines. But this trip we detoured south to
Speaker 4: the Tailee Island of Karazuti and the Malocas to pick
Speaker 4: up a detachment of rangers, a demolition team, and bring
Speaker 4: them up to Samar. We cleared for another about eighteen
Speaker 4: thirty hours, and his darkness fell. I went out of
Speaker 4: there I found Lieutenant Drury the range of CEO and
Speaker 4: the stop sergeant watching gam Kamora, the volcano over on
Speaker 4: the island.
Speaker 5: I'm McCallum eating mate. Quite a sight, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Sure is? But thenver get better.
Speaker 4: We passed closer to it after Nati and the dog.
Speaker 4: You can see the lava spouting like fourth of July.
Speaker 5: We got a look at a small one back on
Speaker 5: Casuuti inactive. So wle group of violins on both sides
Speaker 5: of the strait is volcanic, you're telling.
Speaker 6: Me, tryumph Now you can have my share them. That
Speaker 6: big baby there used to keep us awake nights rumbling.
Speaker 5: They aren't exactly conducing to peace of mind, I'll admit, sergeant,
Speaker 5: but they're very interesting. I'd like a chance to study
Speaker 5: one more closely. Not for me, Lieutenant, Well, probably won't
Speaker 5: get another chance.
Speaker 7: Now. The men all comfortable, Sergeant, Well.
Speaker 6: It ain't the Queen Mary, sir, but they're okay.
Speaker 2: Sorry, this baby wasn't meant but troop transplant, no matter.
Speaker 7: We're used to improvising.
Speaker 5: Well night, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Nice sharing, nice guy, the best one of them.
Speaker 6: Guys with principles serious, you know, educating them kind usually
Speaker 6: get clobbered first thing, but he's come through, bloody. You
Speaker 6: have a time back there in not much Jap radio station,
Speaker 6: half starved out already. Of course they put up a fight,
Speaker 6: they always do, but.
Speaker 2: Not so bad.
Speaker 6: Hey, look at that thing Belgian smoke a mile high, flashing.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, spectacular?
Speaker 6: All right, Hey, lieutenant, could I could I interest you
Speaker 6: in a human scalp tand with mangrove bark got me
Speaker 6: a couple of extra back there someone cheap?
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks Sigon. I got one scalp. I hope that'll
Speaker 2: last me the rout.
Speaker 4: That night, for the first time since we left home,
Speaker 4: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Get to sleep, and tried reading a while and gave
Speaker 2: that up too.
Speaker 4: Finally I got a cup of coffee and took one
Speaker 4: up to Hannigan.
Speaker 2: On the bridge.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks Mac, just what I needed.
Speaker 4: We sipped our coffee quietly. Bosum stood silently at the wheel.
Speaker 4: The time is over four twenty five hours. We were
Speaker 4: steaming up through the Maluka passage, of course, one degree
Speaker 4: true speed, eighteen knots, a smooth, gentle swell. The phosphorescence
Speaker 4: in the bower wash was brightened enough to show hands
Speaker 4: and faces it was peaceful.
Speaker 2: Hey mac ay mac, you smell anything coffee? No, come here,
Speaker 2: stand over here. Yeah, little sulfur and something that smells.
Speaker 8: Like wet does That's what I thought too, sir.
Speaker 5: Well, couldn't it say?
Speaker 9: Isn't there a volcano over there on Helmhera or you
Speaker 9: might be getting a little land breeze?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we passed it an hour back. I'll take it.
Speaker 2: I got them, you guys spitting over the sat up there.
Speaker 2: What's the matter, Brian, I just.
Speaker 10: Happened to notice my intake more is heating up very much. Well,
Speaker 10: it's supposed to be about twenty five degrees centigrade around here.
Speaker 8: It's twenty nine.
Speaker 10: Now we're pulling sludge too. Looks like pomus.
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess you better call the captain Hagan. Smell that, captain.
Speaker 7: Yes, you check the ships to account.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Boyd and Parman went over to nothing wrong.
Speaker 7: Yes, well stop the engines. Yes, mister Hannigan, you check our.
Speaker 11: Position, Yes, Captain, it's verified here on the chart sonic
Speaker 11: depth finder on mister greng Jane.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, turned it out right away, reads one one.
Speaker 7: Four three fables.
Speaker 11: I'll see here this is where we are about thirty
Speaker 11: five miles west of Kumbakia, and how the hero nautical
Speaker 11: miles that is? Yes, over here you see less than
Speaker 11: three miles northwest. You've got a bigea. Somebody reported the
Speaker 11: show there once, hasn't been found again since. Might be
Speaker 11: anywhere in the general vicinity I see here. It's marked
Speaker 11: eighteen fathoms he the existence stand for reported.
Speaker 2: February eighteen seventy one.
Speaker 5: And if there is something there, it can't be anything
Speaker 5: but a submarine mountain that those depths all around him.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's probably volcanic. One of those buggers that push up,
Speaker 11: you know, and sink back down again. Got some of
Speaker 11: them up in the burning. But all we've got to
Speaker 11: go on is this old captain that came through here
Speaker 11: in eighteen seventy one, probably a whaler. Didn't care where
Speaker 11: he was so long as he had his foot on
Speaker 11: a fish. You think he could have got his bearings
Speaker 11: and helm my hair.
Speaker 2: I can't tell.
Speaker 11: I suppose Now here's this old fellow dawdling through here.
Speaker 11: In February northwest monsoon at its height, fairly good winds,
Speaker 11: mostly north or western north current sets about two knights
Speaker 11: of the wind. So if he's out in his reckoning,
Speaker 11: you see, it's probably because he's farther over to the
Speaker 11: south of east than he thought.
Speaker 7: Like this, that puts us pretty close to the trouble.
Speaker 5: Go up to the southeast, because we don't know how
Speaker 5: far art he was.
Speaker 11: If he was out now here, we could go this way,
Speaker 11: but it seems foolish to backtack on our course and
Speaker 11: then go west to get fair. Don't see why we
Speaker 11: wouldn't be safe if we cut across the angle to
Speaker 11: the southwest. That sounds right to me, Kevin, Yes, we
Speaker 11: should be safe enough.
Speaker 2: Well, let's hope. So it's the Grand Jeans.
Speaker 11: Then by the death finder and sing out if again. Initially, yes, sir,
Speaker 11: the ship was a donge GQ. The engine stopped. The
Speaker 11: nearer ocean silence hung over everything.
Speaker 4: They're still dark, but a soft glimmer was beginning to
Speaker 4: show behind the peaks.
Speaker 2: And how maham, it's not the engines half speed?
Speaker 5: Yes, they're half speed.
Speaker 4: The returning pulse of the engines, like a reviving heartbeat,
Speaker 4: seemed to bring the ship back to LFE.
Speaker 7: You were about two twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 4: Five our by victory began to gather away, turning. The
Speaker 4: person got her around, met her and settled on course.
Speaker 4: Haddigan stood by the bridge farm for minutes.
Speaker 2: We stood quietly, watching and waiting.
Speaker 4: Now there was a rosy smear in the east behind us,
Speaker 4: are glooming on the sea. I could just make out
Speaker 4: the bow, and a man silhouetted in the cross nest
Speaker 4: a bubble.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Ronnie engine Room says thirty two degree.
Speaker 2: Up, three degrees.
Speaker 11: Yeah, stand the phonness to Hannigan, report any change. Another
Speaker 11: few minutes we'll be able to see a little more.
Speaker 2: Captain man in the cross nest. He's waiting.
Speaker 3: Tomina reads thirty eight craves rocks that had full left rudder,
Speaker 3: full left rudder.
Speaker 4: We could see it now, not five hundred yards ahead.
Speaker 4: Nothing in a nightmare. It had ever been so awful
Speaker 4: as that jagged rocky crest, hunching and lifting like the
Speaker 4: back of a great dawn lizard.
Speaker 2: In the yellow light. It came fuming of the seas,
Speaker 2: slimy with the first mud of creation.
Speaker 4: The slow swell pitched up on it. We could fill
Speaker 4: its deep grumbling roar through the noise of the engines.
Speaker 4: The ship was turning now. No one spoke. We stared
Speaker 4: with slow understanding of the horror that began to form
Speaker 4: in all our minds. The monster was not a single peak.
Speaker 4: The ridge we'd seen coming up in the southwest was
Speaker 4: extending itself in a long curve of points and benches.
Speaker 2: All across the south caper turning, keeper turning. But it
Speaker 2: was already too late.
Speaker 4: Clear across the red pink wash of dawn, a black
Speaker 4: spur joined under the east, and when we looked north,
Speaker 4: the swell was lipping up on a jag of blue
Speaker 4: rocket thickened to the west and hooked on down into
Speaker 4: the southwest. The hawk by victory was completely encircled. We
Speaker 4: were trapped in the middle of an emerging wall came up.
Speaker 3: You are listening to The Boiling Sea tonight's presentation of escape.
Speaker 3: Keep the family intact this holiday weekend by driving safely,
Speaker 3: observe speed laws, stay on your side of the road,
Speaker 3: and don't try to save time at the risk of
Speaker 3: losing a lifetime. Driving's more relaxed, more fun that way,
Speaker 3: and safer too. And now back to escape And the
Speaker 3: second act of The Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4: Took a few seconds for the full impact of the
Speaker 4: situation that hits encircle, trapped in a crater of jagged
Speaker 4: rising peaks on every quarter of the compass.
Speaker 2: Still nobody said anything until Captain has It spoke in
Speaker 2: a quiet voice.
Speaker 7: All right, stop the engine.
Speaker 2: Then we all know. The wires dropped away, and the hope.
Speaker 4: By victory settled floating dead, and a fuming black brown
Speaker 4: lake that bubbles like muddy coming to a boiled the
Speaker 4: terrible stony rumbling jot up to the soles of my shoes.
Speaker 7: Well, I got you fellows into this.
Speaker 2: Oh no, cap you did the best you could.
Speaker 4: How could anyone know where an unshot at mountain would
Speaker 4: come up out of the sea, Hagan.
Speaker 10: I don't want to get you fellas too excited up there,
Speaker 10: but you better quit smoking. We're getting sixty eight degrees
Speaker 10: centigrade on this thing. Got any anchine went boiled? What
Speaker 10: is going on up there?
Speaker 2: Brownie?
Speaker 5: We're in a volcano.
Speaker 10: Well, I always told you something like this would happen.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta watch.
Speaker 9: You're doing sixty eight degrees integrate, sir, Well Jonah made it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a hole in it somewhere.
Speaker 2: We can wait till it settles down. Get the boats out.
Speaker 11: Yes, by gully, I mean idea, mister McCallum, if we
Speaker 11: do a good job of Savene, maybe they'll forgive us.
Speaker 7: Or getting into it in the first place.
Speaker 4: No one mentioned the chance that we might never get out.
Speaker 4: We lived in the crater of a mountain interruption. We're
Speaker 4: still working and thrusting, but its force had began to
Speaker 4: die down.
Speaker 2: In the west and southwest.
Speaker 4: Its highest peaks through maybe fifty sixty feet above the sea.
Speaker 4: In the north and northwest much lower. We could see
Speaker 4: the swell breaking over two places.
Speaker 7: Sir Hannigan, you will check and recheck the position.
Speaker 11: Yes, Captain, it's the Grand Gene. You will take bearings
Speaker 11: and measurements of the rim, starting at zero degrees and
Speaker 11: working all around the companies. Yes, Karen, you will pass
Speaker 11: the word that we're I'm going to try getting out
Speaker 11: of here just as soon as the first shark is over.
Speaker 11: I don't wanted to think we're not doing anything. Yes,
Speaker 11: might let the people down in the engine room now,
Speaker 11: and the gun crew and tell Lieutenant Drury and his rangers.
Speaker 2: Yes him, all right, thank you, gentlemen. I carried the
Speaker 2: message to the other officers.
Speaker 4: Men were hanging over the rail, looking at the dead
Speaker 4: fish in the Pubian water. Everybody was coughing sickly. Gases
Speaker 4: came up in spurts and slow blobs. Here and there
Speaker 4: are small guys that paddered down stones and mud on
Speaker 4: the water. There was a washer gloomy sun on the
Speaker 4: crags to the west. Beyond lay the glimmer of the
Speaker 4: Molucca Passage. Like the whole of life itself, it seemed
Speaker 4: very distant.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: At breakfast, the captain was still cheer.
Speaker 11: All right, gentlemen, we may as well eat. May not
Speaker 11: have another chance for a while. What do you think
Speaker 11: so well?
Speaker 7: Looks as if the one is about over.
Speaker 11: We get the boats out after breakfast. See if we
Speaker 11: can't find a hole in it? Just a western omelet
Speaker 11: for me mass. What if we can't do that, maybe
Speaker 11: we can find a place to get the boats across,
Speaker 11: isn't father? I'm a hero, you know about thirty six miles,
Speaker 11: But I'd hate to wish I knew more about how
Speaker 11: these volcanoes behaved. Might sink down again in an hour
Speaker 11: or two, or it might keep building up.
Speaker 5: Could I make a suggestion, Captain Hazard, Yes, go ahead,
Speaker 5: Lieutenant Drury my boys are training demolition. Word we can
Speaker 5: find the right place. I think we might be able
Speaker 5: to blast a hole big enough of the ship to
Speaker 5: get through.
Speaker 11: Yes, thank you, Lieutenant. Yes, we've been thinking the same thing.
Speaker 11: Only trouble is a blast like that might set the
Speaker 11: whole business off. I suppose we'd better wait till we've
Speaker 11: tried everything else.
Speaker 7: First.
Speaker 2: We take the boats out right after breakfast.
Speaker 11: Yes, mister McCallum, you will take one and go north
Speaker 11: to the rim, follow it to the east. Mister Hannigan,
Speaker 11: we'll take the other south and follow it west. Lieutenant Drury,
Speaker 11: a detail of your rangers can go in each boat.
Speaker 2: What about communications?
Speaker 11: Yeah, too bad. We don't have radios in the boats.
Speaker 11: We'll have to use flare guns. One flare if you
Speaker 11: find a hole big enough for the ship, confirm it
Speaker 11: with a handlead then two flares to come on the
Speaker 11: usual recall signal. Well, gentlemen, we're in God's hands now.
Speaker 8: Fifty yard sir.
Speaker 2: These are and slowly busting right into the rocks.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, take a look at that water man, don't
Speaker 9: see anything like its slimy gas bubbling up.
Speaker 2: I'm very inviting. Take a look at what's the head, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't look like any rock I've ever seen before.
Speaker 5: It's something monstrous, something tortured about it. Yeah, all yours, lieutenant, Ready,
Speaker 5: Sergeant Fata ready.
Speaker 12: Sir easy Boston, All right, old, steady, all.
Speaker 13: Right, you guys go.
Speaker 5: Okay, good now, I hand over with the pigs. Get
Speaker 5: specimens of the rock.
Speaker 13: Botell.
Speaker 5: You're going up the top and check.
Speaker 2: Yes, this doesn't look very promising.
Speaker 5: No, it's only twenty feet high, but we haven't got
Speaker 5: enough explosive to blast through. Here must be gap somewhere.
Speaker 2: There's vota on top of it.
Speaker 13: Vota can you see anything? And he breaks to the
Speaker 13: east and to see any head?
Speaker 5: Talk for sure though, All right, come back, we'll go
Speaker 5: down farther.
Speaker 4: We cruise slowly along the rim through the dirty, brown,
Speaker 4: black simmering water, stopping every few hundred yards to break
Speaker 4: off specimens of rock. It was hot, we felt as
Speaker 4: if our bodies were drenched in a heated grease. The
Speaker 4: crater had a general downhill trend to the eastward in
Speaker 4: the northeast sectory. It came to what appeared the lowest
Speaker 4: point here, the swell broke Claire across the shallow pitch.
Speaker 5: This is the best place for blasting we've seen yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't look bad. It might be possible.
Speaker 5: Let me take four of my men on those rocks
Speaker 5: and try to find some likely openings for charges, just
Speaker 5: in case.
Speaker 4: Okay, moving class again, busting listen drawing.
Speaker 2: Those rocks are wet and that's swell. There's plenty of power.
Speaker 2: Watch yourselves.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about us. Maybe we don't mind wet feet.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, center razy busson.
Speaker 13: Okay, boys, horever we go. Come on, get the let
Speaker 13: out a right man, spring up.
Speaker 2: Look for the cracks, all off, Boston.
Speaker 4: Can you stand by with the line secured, ready to
Speaker 4: toss him just in case?
Speaker 5: How about this, mate?
Speaker 7: Do you think we'll have to try it?
Speaker 2: Last? Is that?
Speaker 4: I don't know what looks like? Maybe unless Hannigan found
Speaker 4: something we shouldn't.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Blasting in this stuff is like letting a fire cracker
Speaker 9: on a dynamite factory.
Speaker 2: May have to take the chance.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, look back there until the ship a dirty
Speaker 9: yellow guck. We're going to break out the gas mass
Speaker 9: we had gas man, What was.
Speaker 8: That an explosion?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 8: Underneath this the whole thing's going on sinking.
Speaker 13: Look the man they're sinking from the line, los and hurry, hey,
Speaker 13: dry grab the line, get.
Speaker 2: Your man on it.
Speaker 13: We'll pull you in. That's it, passing on out of
Speaker 13: your hurry.
Speaker 14: All right, the wrong on?
Speaker 13: Hey, bring him in he fast as you can. Okay,
Speaker 13: his drawery, get it, then hurry home?
Speaker 9: On? Come on?
Speaker 13: What's hurting the whole things?
Speaker 2: Morning?
Speaker 13: Keep having foot?
Speaker 8: Where's moto?
Speaker 13: I got him right here?
Speaker 11: Come on up.
Speaker 13: Heat, God of Heaven, keep a lgmantic for all right.
Speaker 15: Here's the next te to be hoisted in us three?
Speaker 15: All right, coming easier, now, let's hang me foro. Come on,
Speaker 15: fellow cramp one more trouble man, all right, craig, so
Speaker 15: we can.
Speaker 13: Get out of here.
Speaker 8: The line's coming too.
Speaker 13: First trouble, where's trouble? White little tennant? Stop him holding drawery.
Speaker 8: You can't trouble us.
Speaker 16: Tell him that you can't come back in without a
Speaker 16: line tying around his waist wall.
Speaker 13: I'm going to all right, but tying to that line
Speaker 13: then we'll be able to.
Speaker 2: Hide you back.
Speaker 4: They went over the side, disappearing into the murk on
Speaker 4: the sludgy water.
Speaker 2: The shocks were increasing in violence. Now they jared their
Speaker 2: teeth and my heads.
Speaker 4: We looked toward this ship and saw the western rim
Speaker 4: of the crater thrusting up in a great.
Speaker 2: Wall behind it.
Speaker 4: Then Walt's head appeared close to the boat, his face black,
Speaker 4: and he shook a hopeless no. He dived again two
Speaker 4: or three times, and then let us pull him in.
Speaker 4: But Drury wouldn't give up. Come on, pull him in.
Speaker 8: He's fighting us.
Speaker 13: We'll fight him back and get him inmber this boat. Yes, sir, here,
Speaker 13: I'll give you a hat. He let me cool.
Speaker 8: We gotta get the bubble.
Speaker 13: Let me go. You can't waste any more time. Yeah,
Speaker 13: it's no use, straw.
Speaker 5: But he's in there somewhere.
Speaker 13: We can't just let him stay there. Man, No, no, honey,
Speaker 13: all right, laws and take her off.
Speaker 2: But I'm sorry if I'm trouble with Tenor. But he
Speaker 2: is one man.
Speaker 13: There are a hundred men back there in the hold
Speaker 13: by victory.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Sorry, it's getting worse every minute.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do anything.
Speaker 13: We gotta do it fair. Hey, look over there with
Speaker 13: the rock sank.
Speaker 2: That GAP's big enough for the ship. Yeah maybe, but
Speaker 2: is it deep enough.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be the whole thing. Make a one any
Speaker 5: minute like a roll of chin.
Speaker 2: All right, Boston fire, one flat. Walt got the hand lead,
Speaker 2: I've got it. Who quote, don't have a drag at.
Speaker 4: Ten fathoms a quarter across the gap, sing out if
Speaker 4: you feel anything. The boat moved slowly across the old
Speaker 4: edge of the crater and out into the open sea.
Speaker 2: Walt, holding the lead line, shook his head at me.
Speaker 2: He felt nothing.
Speaker 4: I turned carefully in the swell and carted back into
Speaker 4: the crater. I could see the hope by Victory creeping
Speaker 4: toward us. She'd recalled hanning it's boat and was dragging
Speaker 4: ahead of her in a narrow s curve. They were
Speaker 4: like vessels under shelfire. The whole center of the crater
Speaker 4: was writhing with smoke.
Speaker 2: And erupting guises of much in stone. We can see
Speaker 2: rocks falling on the deck behind the ship.
Speaker 4: The western crags now jet a three hundred feet high,
Speaker 4: lifting and working in black agger.
Speaker 2: The ship was coming on fast. We were the last chance.
Speaker 2: Do you feel what they want?
Speaker 8: Nothing? Can they make it?
Speaker 9: Sir?
Speaker 2: They've gotten too fat.
Speaker 4: Two flowers and we'll stand out to see him, make
Speaker 4: a target for him.
Speaker 8: Hey better hurry, there's things about the blow.
Speaker 2: It's top.
Speaker 8: All right here too all send what's that here?
Speaker 9: You'll never make it.
Speaker 2: A GAP's too small, you tight squeeze. The captain's got
Speaker 2: it perfectly centered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be better.
Speaker 9: It's coming full speed.
Speaker 13: If he misses, heading it through now the minute, we'll know.
Speaker 2: Man. If they crash, we'll have.
Speaker 5: To work fast, unless the shock is enough to set
Speaker 5: the whole thing off.
Speaker 8: Here they come, smells breaking on the bar.
Speaker 13: It's not slacking spade, and it's too small. It's too small.
Speaker 8: They're in.
Speaker 2: She's coming through.
Speaker 13: She's coming through.
Speaker 14: Chairs.
Speaker 2: We're not out of this ship.
Speaker 13: He's not cunning his spee. He's not gonna leave us here.
Speaker 2: Hold on on. He's turning between the two boats. You'll
Speaker 2: get us on one side and handing it on the other. Huck.
Speaker 16: Captain signaling the bridge person, give a fots fade, give
Speaker 16: her everything at that parallel his course.
Speaker 8: Where's the gifts wall?
Speaker 13: Hang on, we'll pick you up later on. You heard
Speaker 13: him old time jewry walk and they got that line.
Speaker 2: When it's thrown down, I don't miss.
Speaker 5: Here they are.
Speaker 16: I'll steady against the bow watch person holding alongside all
Speaker 16: right here comes the line. Bak fast, hurry before we
Speaker 16: lose the snacker, and they get good and fast. Give
Speaker 16: to the wortch person, hollo.
Speaker 13: We're fine, brother, just in time.
Speaker 2: All right, person, you'd cut the engine. We're under tone.
Speaker 9: Man, man, so we ain't gonna sleep on a bed
Speaker 9: of colds tonight.
Speaker 6: Brother. I ain't never felt anything so good as the
Speaker 6: pull on that line.
Speaker 9: It's funny nuts, full speed, pulling us away fast, maybe
Speaker 9: two miles already.
Speaker 2: It can't be too fast for me.
Speaker 5: Just look at that thing. Whether it's an inferno, yes.
Speaker 14: Suh, all of it, the whole thing.
Speaker 8: It did blow.
Speaker 2: Its top wall.
Speaker 4: Help the mountain with a towel holder in. Grab guys
Speaker 4: who drury, help me matter back as far as we can.
Speaker 4: Then stay down, everybody, stay down. There's a wave coming,
Speaker 4: a tidal wave.
Speaker 8: Look at it.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come.
Speaker 13: All right, get down, everybody kick down.
Speaker 5: We thought we were saved. It's fifty sixty maybe one
Speaker 5: hundred feet.
Speaker 13: We'll take the whole ship. Everything, keep down and hang
Speaker 13: on none.
Speaker 8: Here it comes, here, it comes.
Speaker 10: We're not.
Speaker 2: Everybody all right. I don't know how, but we're all right.
Speaker 4: Man, had wave that lifted us to the level of
Speaker 4: the rail of the Hopi Victory. But a seismic wave
Speaker 4: does not crest an open sea. So it came as
Speaker 4: one great smooth swell that lifted as high and passed
Speaker 4: and let us swoop back down again. A few minutes
Speaker 4: later the ship picked us up, and we all paused
Speaker 4: to look back at the emblem of fire we left
Speaker 4: behind us.
Speaker 9: Well, I guess maybe the captain was right. We must
Speaker 9: have been in the hands of God. All accept trouble, Yeah,
Speaker 9: all accept trouble.
Speaker 6: Well, look, you wanted to study a volcano close to did?
Speaker 5: I will remind me to cross that study off my list.
Speaker 3: Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine,
Speaker 3: has brought you The Boiling Sea, a story by Vincent
Speaker 3: mcew and adapted for radio by John Duncle. Featured in
Speaker 3: the cast were Ted Decrcia, Herb Butterfield, Harry Bartel, Herbellus
Speaker 3: and Tony Barrett. Also heard were Jack Moyles, Clayton Post
Speaker 3: and Jim Hayward. You're announcer Bill Anders. The special music
Speaker 3: for Escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1: Next week, you are stranded with a carnival just the
Speaker 1: side of the Iron culta'in when out of nowhere a
Speaker 1: fortune is within your grasp, Riding a number on a
Speaker 1: roulette wheel hundreds of feet high. Why at your shoulder,
Speaker 1: laughing at you, a killer clown from whom there is
Speaker 1: no escape.
Speaker 3: So listen next week when Kate brings you David Friedkin
Speaker 3: and Morton Fine Story Carnival in Vienna. Stay tuned now
Speaker 3: for Nightwatch, which follows immediately. Over most of these stations,
Speaker 3: there's Comedy with My Little Margie Sunday nights on the
Speaker 3: CBS Radio network.
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