Gray Lady Down Page #4
- PG
- Year:
- 1978
- 111 min
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clear that hatch, Bill?
- We have a small submersible that--
- It's a little bug, but
it might just do the job.
- It was developed on a shoestring budget.
But the man that designed it,
claims it'll do most anything.
- It has an arm, and I believe
it's television-equipped, isn't it?
- Well, yes, I think so.
- Well, nevertheless, it's
supposed to do a lot of things,
and clearing the earth off an escape hatch
could certainly be one of them.
But let me emphasize, sir,
it's still experimental.
It's called the, the Snark?
- Can we get it?
- Absolutely.
Well, that is if the
secretary will authorize it.
And I think Don Gates
should go along with it.
He's the young captain who's developed it.
- All right, I'll authorize it.
- Captain Gates!
Captain Gates!
Hey, sir!
You got a call from the office
of the Secretary of the Navy!
Hello!
A sub is down!
They wanna use the Snark!
- Hey, partner, how's that arm?
- Been doing better, sir.
- Feeling fine?
- Captain?
- Harris.
How you doing?
- I don't know what happened up there.
- You just did what we
all felt like doing.
- Yes, sir.
- Take it easy.
How you doing?
- Captain?
May I speak to you a moment, sir?
- What's up?
- Is that, um, whatchamacallit here yet?
- Not yet, should be along anytime.
Lieutenant Fowler's gonna help
you figure out a procedure
to get these people through
here to the escape hatch.
- You think it can dig us out, sir?
- Do you think so, sir?
- Yeah, I do.
- Have Lieutenant Bloome report
to me on the helo deck immediately.
- Aye, aye, sir.
- Captain Gates?
Hal Bennett. Welcome aboard!
- Don Gates!
Just secure her for now!
We'll dive in 20 minutes!
Can you show me to the com shack?
- Aye, aye, sir.
Right this way.
- Mickey.
- Sir.
- Everything working okay?
- Yeah.
You want set this up?
- Certainly. Excuse me.
Oh, uh.
These will have to go.
Here, take these.
Okay.
- We don't have power yet.
What I need is 110, AC.
- Yeah, right over there, Chief.
- TV monitor, talk back.
This'll be able to see
everything the Snark can see.
Get this set up, and before you know it,
you and me will be down
at the bottom of the sea
with that submarine.
- You betcha.
- Captain Gates.
Captain Gates?
I think we'll operate more efficiently
if we bear in mind who's in charge here.
- Yes, sir.
- The Snark is a two-man
vehicle, is that correct?
- Yes, I work it with Mickey here.
- This is Lieutenant Bloome, Gates.
You'll be working with him today.
- What?
- Have a good look at the
controls in that thing
before you go down, Bloome.
- Aye, sir.
- Just a minute.
- Captain Gates, Lieutenant
Bloome is a submersibles expert.
He's one of my team here.
- This is a unique vehicle.
There are no experts.
There's me and Mickey.
He planned it with me, built it for me.
- Sir, you see--
- Look, Captain Gates,
this is not a town meeting.
I said you will take Bloome.
He knows these waters.
When will you be ready to dive?
- We'll dive in 45 minutes.
- Bloome.
- Sir, would, um...
- Excuse us, gentlemen.
Okay, Bloome.
Now, you're down here
on your belly like this.
Now, to operate the nose
camera and the light,
both in sync, so wherever
you point the light,
camera goes there too.
- How about the mechanical arm?
- That works just like a crane.
- Uh-huh.
- Pull it back to retract it.
See the stick?
- Mm-hm.
- Side to side.
Nothing hard about it.
- How in the hell do you stay so calm?
- You know, I had this funny flash
when we were bottoming out, sir,
that I didn't give a damn
one way or the other.
- Hit me just the opposite.
Hit me just how much I
wanted to stay around,
especially with this boat and this crew.
And only yesterday I was
thinking, it's all over, isn't it?
- All set, Captain?
- All set.
- Lieutenant, you
understand this contraption?
- Yes, sir.
It's not all that different
from our own RV-1.
- Just remember, any problems,
you notify us immediately.
Two dead heroes won't help anyone.
- Now listen, don't try to
take off too much in one bite.
- Let's hit it.
- Good luck.
- Bye.
- Snark, do you read me?
Over.
Snark, do you read me?
Over.
Snark, do you read me?
Over.
- Of course I do.
- Have you got it?
- Yes, sir.
- No problems so far.
200 feet.
- Roger.
- 250 feet.
340 feet.
Water temperature, 48 degrees.
Passing 400 feet.
Looks good, Mickey.
- What's his angle of descent?
- Snark, what is your angle of descent?
Over.
- 10 degrees, increasing
one degree every 150 feet.
525 feet.
There's a little vibration.
Nothing to worry about, Bloome.
Coming up on 600 feet.
- That shouldn't bring him
down very far off, sir.
- Not too fast.
Go on your sonar now.
- Passing 1,000 feet.
- Go on.
- We're turning on the
cameras and going on sonar.
There she is.
- We have a sonar contact.
Do you read us up top?
We're taking a little beating down here.
- Current layer, sir, we're expecting--
- Yeah, that's okay.
Yeah, it's fine.
Sir, as long as it doesn't
go too deep, you know?
- Gates, this is Bennett.
Hold on till you get beneath that layer.
- Okay, Captain.
We're gonna hold on.
Uh-oh, we've lost contact.
- That layer must be
deflecting your sonar.
Decrease your rate of descent.
You'll have to make contact visually.
- Coming up on 1,300 feet.
Seems to be settling down.
- Neptune, are you getting all this?
- We hear it.
- Just take a little
longer, that's all, Paul.
- We'll be here.
You heard the man.
Relax.
- Relax. Yes, sir.
Are you relaxed?
- Yeah, I'm, we're relaxed.
I'm relaxed.
- We are relaxed.
- Yeah.
- Coming up on 1,400 feet.
And my sonar is saturated
with reverberations.
- Wait a second.
I think I see...
Damn, it's hard to see.
Light reflections.
There.
That must be it.
Hard to starboard.
- Do you see her?
- Yeah, Bloome thinks so.
We're moving in for a closer look.
It can't be this far off.
- Easy.
In a little closer.
Little closer.
There.
I do see it.
Yeah.
Oh, my God!
- Sorry, Paul.
What we thought was you
turned out to be an old sonar target.
- Captain Bennett,
I'm taking it back up.
- How far?
- All the way.
- We'll try again, Paul.
- Roger.
- Captain Gates, what happened?!
Why did you stop looking for her?!
- I gotta have
my own man down there!
- And you thought that's sufficient reason
to abandon the search?!
- When I'm steered to a
'52 De Soto, yes, sir!
It's not your fault.
You'd really get the hang of it
after a week of lying
on your belly looking
through those little peepholes.
But we haven't got a damn week!
- We haven't got time
for this either, Gates.
- I'm sorry.
- You have dived nowhere but
Nantucket Sound in that--
- Contraption.
No, sir.
- Captain, Lieutenant Bloome
He knows the currents, he
knows the rock formations.
- I don't mean to argue,
but, please, we can dig those guys out.
- Gates, how can you be sure that this man
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