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Disappointing a <u>big</u> girl!
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You've asked why I stay a bachelor? There goes the best reason I know!
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Huh?
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I might have a son like <u>that!</u>
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I guess Skipper Neilsen re tired before you enrolled at the Academy, didn't he?
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I guess.
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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.
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So?
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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!'
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A lot of people think like that.
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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.
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Have you ever talked to Carl tried to see his side?
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'His' side? I've seen it, all right. A nice, bright yellow!
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Cyclops?
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Sounds like it! Distress call, from a small freighter, between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. One mayday, then...nothing.
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We're stuck tight!
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Skipper! Look at the depth gauge!
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You've got to let us try, Skipper
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'Us?'
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Reef and I can take the Explorer down, clamp it around the eye, and
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You all wait here. I'm going inside, take a look.
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Not <u>alone</u>, you're not!
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How about that! The bow drove half through her, but she sealed herself right up.
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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!
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I think you're right.
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Go back and tell Dr. Neilsen. Have him report to the Skipper.
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Yeah?
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Listen! Hear that?
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I don't hear anything. Maybe you've been down here too long. Why don't you go back up and
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Strange you didn't hear it. OMIT 274F
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Hey you know somethin'? It's getting lighter in here!
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You know it <u>is</u>?
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And if I didn't <u>know</u> better I'd swear we were moving!
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Let's get back to work, and maybe we <u>will</u> be, soon.
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You hear that?
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The sound again?
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Where do you think the voice you heard was coming from?
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Somewhere down there?
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Wonder where Powell and Carney are?
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We'll have to look for them later.
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Well?
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I'm with <u>you!</u>
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Here keep these. It wants me to come alone.
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Oh it does???
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Dave !
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What's goin' on in here, Lad? What ?
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I should have suspectcd, when I heard that 'Doctor.' I thought it was your father.
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It was supposed to be. Dad had a heart attack, two days ago.
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How is he ?
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It was moderate. He'll be all right. But it was out of the question, his coming along.
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And they thought <u>you</u> could re place the Skipper?
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You could train someone else.
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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!
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What is it?
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Your 'out.' This came for you.
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My father! He's not ?
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Dead? Matter of fact, he's much better. He's left the hospital.
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What did you mean: I'm 'out?'
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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...
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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!
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<u>You</u> said it. But I won't argue
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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...
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We're <u>all</u> risking our lives!
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That may be. But Dad stays where <u>he</u> is, and I'm staying here!
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You're really a mixedup oddball, aren't you?
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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!
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You mean <u>nothing</u> is worth fighting for?
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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!
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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!
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Unidentified Flying Objects.
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Then...this is a 'flying saucer?'
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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 !
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any more than being the son of Captain Neilsen does!
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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
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I'd sooner swim!
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They're so remote cold beautiful, the stars. But now I wonder
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Yes?
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Which is the one we have to worry about?
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Maybe just 'maybe' when their ship doesn't return they'll decide not to come here, after all.
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But if they <u>do</u>?
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I don't know.
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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
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And his 'egghead' son! We'll give 'em a <u>rough</u> <u>reception</u>, won't we?
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Dan. And he's taking Alice with him pretty good dive Yvonne. You've been practicing.
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Two hours a day, six days a week.
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Vomit?
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Faint.
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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?!
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Mark...
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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!
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I can't listen to this.
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It's okay.
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Stick around, please?
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You, too?
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He invited me to his house last night.
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These things are wild... What do you think?
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Makes you look like a nun
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All right kids, I tell you what we're gonna do. I've got swimming practice until sixthirty today...
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Yeah...
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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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