Fer-de-Lance

Russ Bogan:
What's the heading?

Chief Hughes:
108. 109. 110.

Russ Bogan:
Speed?

Chief Hughes:
16, slowing. 15. 14.

Russ Bogan:
What's the depth?

Chief Hughes:
Thousand fifty. Fifty-five.

Russ Bogan:
We're gonna run out of ocean.

Commander Kirk:
You know Lieutenant Scott. [Nicholson and Scott acknowledge one another] This is the Master at Arms, Russ Bogan.

Russ Bogan:
Lieutenant.

Commander Scott:
Russ here is Chief of the Boat, the COB.

Russ Bogan:
That means I'm in charge of the bomb.

Commander Kirk:
He also happens to be a charter member of the first underwater demolition team. The original frogman. He can help you handle the explosives.

Lieutenant Nicholson:
I need help right now, sir. I'm assigned as Weapons Officer, which means I know which page to look up in Knight's Modern Seamanship, and that's all.

Russ Bogan:
We can't move the boat. Move the rocks.

Joe Voit:
Those rocks must weigh more than a thousand tons.

Russ Bogan:
We'll set up a series of charges, enough to gouge out the load. All we need is a couple of inches.

Joe Voit:
How do you know the charges won't crack us open?

Russ Bogan:
Well, I don't. But if we sit here we're dead.

Joe Voit:
If the divers go out there, they're dead.

Russ Bogan:
Not necessarily. We've had divers out at a thousand feet before. We got deep water rigs, exotic air mixtures, helium, argon. And we're loaded with experts.

Joe Voit:
Russ, that current's blowing at more than 12 knots. It can rip off tanks, face masks. It'll sweep those guys around like pieces of kelp.

Russ Bogan:
We'll rig the gear with extra belts; hook up harnesses, cables to keep from being swept away. It's gotta be done.

Joe Voit:
Who's gonna do it?

Russ Bogan:
Me.

Joe Voit:
You?

Russ Bogan:
What do you mean, "you?" I got more time in a wetsuit than this whole group.

Joe Voit:
Yeah, that was a lot of hash marks ago.

Russ Bogan:
Thanks a lot.

Joe Voit:
Well, you don't bail out at over a thousand every day.

Russ Bogan:
Today's the day.

Russ Bogan:
This goes for the memory of those that have died, for us. I am the resurrection, and the life, sayeth the Lord. And he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Amen.