Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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Come with me

Come with me

On a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

In the sea

on blue green

We will find love at

the bottom of the sea

Unbelievable, inconceivable,

fantastic it will seem

But we'll be the first, the very first

to live such a strange new dream

There will be lost and free

on our Voyage to the

Bottom of the Sea

[CHORUS]

Come with me

On our Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

[CHORUS]

Come with me...

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BEEPING]

Today's top of the news

comes from the top of the world.

The unpredictable

Admiral Harriman Nelson has done it again.

His brain-child,

a fantastic atomic submarine...

with an amazing glass nose...

is now undergoing final tests

below the ice at the North Pole.

To sit in judgment on the final test...

the Bureau of Marine Exploration

has sent a seaplane...

with its top officer,

the former vice admiral B.J. Crawford...

to rendezvous with

the submarine Seaview in the Arctic.

Flying with him is the congressional

watchdog of the budget...

penny-pinching congressman

Llewellyn Parker...

who had fought a losing fight

against what he had termed...

"Nelson's Folly."

And so the question of the day

comes to this...

Will the final test

on the U.S. O.S. Seaview...

turn it into "Nelson's Folly"...

or will it be another triumph

of a great man...

a great inventor who,

despite his oddball reputation...

may yet emerge as the predominant

scientific genius of our time?

So bon voyage, Admiral Nelson.

Good luck, Seaview.

Well, gentlemen, modesty forbids

my adding anything to that.

- Shall we take her down, Captain?

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Let's make it 90 feet at the start.

- Aye, sir.

[KLAXON BLARING]

Diving stations.

Diving stations.

- Any time you're ready, Mr. Thompson.

[ON SPEAKER] Aye, aye, sir.

- Stand by.

[KLAXON BLARING]

Clear the decks, Mr. Thompson.

[THOMPSON ON SPEAKER] Decks clear.

- Decks clear.

Prepare to dive.

MAN:
Close all main ballast tank vents.

MAN 2:
Stand by to blow tanks.

Ballast tanks full.

- Close the vent.

- Flood negative.

Full dive on the planes.

Fifteen degrees down bubble.

Secure the air.

- All agreed?

- All agreed.

Dive! All dive!

- Pressure in the boat.

- Up scope.

9-0 feet.

MAN:
Level off at 9-0 feet.

Down scope. All ahead two-thirds.

All ahead two-thirds.

- Final trim, Captain.

- Carry on.

Well, final trim, sir.

Depth:
9-0 feet. Speed: Two-thirds.

Well, Lee, it's been a long, tough haul...

from conception to execution...

but, my boy, we've done it.

You've done it, sir. It bears out

what you taught us at Annapolis.

"The wild dreams of today...

are the practical realities of tomorrow."

I'm glad you remembered

one of my more temperate quotes.

[Chuckling]

Some of our colleagues haven't

been quite so diplomatic.

Say, speaking of diplomacy,

we've got some guests to entertain.

I've met 'em. Now it's your turn.

And just remember, they hold

the purse strings to this "folly" of ours.

- Shall we dress?

- Dress?

Black tie.

Let's go.

- Take the conn, Ed. I'll be fore.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Beautiful, isn't it?

It's the most exotic thing I've ever seen.

No more, thank you.

Admiral. Nice to see you, sir.

- Captain Crane, Dr. Hiller.

- How do you do?

- Congressman Parker.

- How do you do, sir?

You have an expensive toy here, Admiral.

Though it is suitable for sightseeing.

Quite right, sir. We hope to

see sights never before seen by man...

and by seeing, solve some

of the mysteries of the deep.

Sorry for the brief hello

when you came aboard...

but this toy of mine is a demanding lady.

Aren't we all.

Washington probably thought

you needed a woman's touch around here.

[CHUCKLES] Research project, isn't it?

- That's right.

The reaction of crewmen under

conditions of lengthy confinement?

Yes, Admiral, and I appreciate

the honor of being the only woman aboard.

- Ah, but you're not. We have another one.

- Oh?

You'll meet her.

Shall we see the rest of the ship?

Well, I did think that was

the purpose of our visit.

- Doctor.

- Congressman.

The control room the brain of the sub.

Over here, we have our chauffeurs.

It takes two to run this toy

helmsman and planesman.

Now, on a submarine,

it's always Christmas.

That's what I've been telling Congress.

Wrong deduction, sir.

That's our Christmas tree.

Tells us when we can dive.

Now, if we go down before

all those lights are green...

we start bailing.

Over here...

we have our ballast control.

- How does it work?

- Like an elevator system, doctor.

Takes us up and lets us down.

Now, on this side...

that is radar.

This is sonar. Sonar keeps us from

running into anything under the water.

- Radar does the same thing on the surface.

[LEAD ON PENCIL BREAKS]

Try this one, Congressman.

Two "S"s in "progress."

Now if you'll come down here, doctor.

This is our missile tracking tape.

If we have to shoot, at least

we like to know where the missile's going.

And if we do shoot,

over there are the buttons.

The trick is to know which one.

Suppose the other fella shoots first?

In that event, sir, that's the way out.

This way, doctor, please.

And watch your step here.

The radio shack. Lee?

- Excuse me. This way, please.

- Sparks?

Make that Washington call

in exactly 11 minutes.

Aye, aye, sir.

Not even Jules Verne

dreamed of anything like this.

- The world's only undersea aquarium.

- What on earth is he doing?

- Shark walking.

DR. HILLER:
Shark walking?

Come on, Bessie. Come on.

You want to get well, don't you?

For ages, man has been trying

to learn the secret of the fish.

Now we have a perfect

underwater laboratory.

Well, Lucius,

back with your fish again, I see.

B.J. It's nice to see you.

Commodore Emery, this is

Dr. Hiller and Congressman Parker.

How do you do, Commodore?

I still don't understand what he's doing.

The commodore regards

all sea creatures as personal friends.

He'd rather be remembered

for his discovery of a new fish...

than as one of the leading

physicists of our time.

- May I explain?

- I wish you would.

My little friend Bessie here, we had

to drug her in order to do some tests.

Now I'm trying to force some water

through her gills so she doesn't drown.

In her present condition,

she wouldn't even bite a congressman.

Well, then she's the only one

on board who wouldn't.

Oh, you're much too sensitive,

Congressman.

Right you are, doctor.

- Come along, everybody.

- See you later, Lucius, I hope.

Come on! Hup, two, three.

Come on. Get going.

Watch your step there.

You've seen the brain of the sub.

In here is the heart...

- the atomic motor room.

[ALARM RINGS]

- Careful, sir. That's our warning system.

- Disregard.

No one is allowed in there,

not even congressmen.

You understand. For your own safety.

[ALARM RINGS]

Now, down here you'll find

the sting of the ship.

In fact, there are more stings in here

than in a hornet's nest.

The missile and escape room.

Congressman, there is more

destructive force in this room...

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