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when the United States Coast Guard

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cooperates in the research project

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it goes all out this was a big one

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important enough to rate the services of

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three top-flight scientific brains

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it was newsworthy enough to attract top

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say no you never have people when you're

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sitting on top of a big story now who

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told you about that VI that and a

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woman's instinct mine works overtime

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when Mike Nelson is involved someday his

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scales may dry out long enough for me to

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put a ring in his nose is he younger

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right at the end of that cable as usual

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well I'll see him when he comes up

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you're gonna<font color="

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three days what kind of a gag is this

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that's the experts come on I'll

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introduce

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gentleman gentleman this is Dorothy

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at our youngest Pulitzer Prize winner no

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she's the<font color="

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Darlie this is dr. Dain Navy's best

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diving decision how do you do

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dick Jennings project engineer hi hi and

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professor Anton Riccardi specialist

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high-pressure gases and breathing

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mixture how would you do do so this

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professor I'm familiar with your work

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but I don't see how Mike and standing

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for three days

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he hasn't grown gills has he much of the

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only a gas formula professor some

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detailed the scooper sphere scuba sphere

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pressure chamber with its own supply

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pressure keeps the water out even when

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the entrance door is open so come in

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without decompression a pressure chamber

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I don't see an airline it is self

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Fontaine he supplied with a helium

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automatically as regards pressure in

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according with my formula

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Mike's<font color="

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helium liquid oxygen how do you busy 250

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feet at least that's where the chamber

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is nobody has tried to stay in deep

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waters for more than an hour - even with

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days anything can happen it is only the

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human element of this concerns me

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unfortunately emotions cannot yet be

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accurately anticipated and measured or

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control professor if those gadgets of

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yours where's dependable is Mike Nelson

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we got no words

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I was out working I had been four hours

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so I headed home now to Riccardi scuba

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sphere

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that's when I heard the alarm mill

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telling me to get inside and answer the

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doing yeah I am Ike I am making it as a

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spaceman like an astronaut on orbit

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why the panic button nothing serious

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radio reports a tropical storm headed

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this way

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Oh rough up there not not do a petal

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looks like in the morning huh Oh since

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quitting unless it gets bad okay stay

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close to home oh I don't have to come

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looking for you don't worry I mag enough

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right now<font color="

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samples I'm hitting the sack hey Mike

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there's a friend of yours up here oh is

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that lonesome down there

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oh is this hi lover boy hey duddy I've

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three days darling hi why you

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I was glad when I wound up my first

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day's work 250 feet underwater now for

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hammock looked comfortable to me and

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even felt that way

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this time of night topside I generally

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rained the refrigerator down here the

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only snack available was concentrated

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liquid protein nourishing sure but not

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I didn't have much else to complain

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about almost wished I had just to break

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them or nothing but as far as I could

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tell down here my chief problem would be

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keeping awake during daylight upstairs

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hey what's going<font color="

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dancing to cheek

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you see lepak oven boy we've got a real

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holler moving in slack off of the cable

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fool around the storm will get real

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nasty before long I want you on deck had

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was worse than it looked

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the dogs the metal clamps that seal the

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chamber was the same as outside a

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tapestry which was why no water

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atmosphere with the<font color="

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way if they had to pull me up fast

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because of the storm the difference in

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pressures would kill me my one chance

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was to force the clamps back in the line

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and seal the door keep it sealed

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upstairs while the pressure was lowered

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graduate a coelom

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fella can't hold us here for him what is

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it doctor - Matt wait doctor dick he's

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engineer

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mic up yet doctors we gotta get the ship

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can't get the door closed dragon the

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hook now I'm trying to hold it with

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power how much longer would take gonna

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make a new door you can't fix it

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to get this chamber off the bottom

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before we pound it to pieces

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I can't maneuver booming that thing over

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we cut him loose captain that's the

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choice that's a choice

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dick Jennings the engineer done a

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remarkable construction job the chamber

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came through intact its skin was

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scratched but not broken

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even the cable my lifeline to the cutter

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anything were wrong now was the time to

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reported topside before the storm set

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the cutter reeling again

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something was wrong all right terribly

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wrong but I couldn't report it my

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telephone connection with the cutter was

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Hager and clear Mike Blair we can't hold

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I had to make sure that I didn't lose my

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slammed into the next week I started to

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lie some additional rows around the

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cable but the cutter dragged anchor

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again and took the chamber with it

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how hoping against hope that I'd have

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enough time the strain from upstairs was

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too much the eye of the cable opened and

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away it went it's free like that clear

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2/3 overhead I could hear the cutter

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moving out and close to full power

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the see around me was new empty too cold

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for comfort now I wanted the nearest

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and a roof over my head

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cracker something wrong here we're not

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dragging my spear tech the cable sure

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check the cable fell this is we haven't

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he's right we<font color="

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was night again my second night and

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would have become a chamber of horrors

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for the first time in my life the world

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in the water was a fearful place

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oppressively still disturbingly lonesome

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at that moment doll of his voice<font color="

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have been the sweetest music ever heard

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on land or in the sea and a

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companionship would have been worth

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anything to me even that ring that she

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wanted to put through my nose the storm

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had gone now<font color="

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hours the three-day supply of helium

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oxygen in the chamber would be gone also

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trying for the surface was out I might

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need more than a half a day to come up

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case of the bends

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you know professor you don't have to

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sell me on the importance of research I

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do think you let Mike take too much of a

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risk the risk was justified say the

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as outer space

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we must have the rare mineral existing

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in the water you shouldn't have let him

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try to ride out the storm you couldn't

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be sure your scuba sphere would come

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cannot control human element

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what's human about a storm or banged up

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door nothing if Mike pulls through it'll

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be because some men can survive in spite

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of a lot of mechanical brains well we

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find me I had to help them find me they

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might see a float if I could get one up

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to the surface none of my signal

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equipment had been designed for this

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need it I tried the standard inflatable

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market the eight atmosphere pressure

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down here was too great wouldn't even

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pressure so I managed to inflate a

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market balloon myself it took off for

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the top and great style but the higher @

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pressure diminished that's what would

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without waiting for hours at a dozen

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different stages

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there was one thing that I could inflate

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that wouldn't explode a pair of denim

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work pants

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but I didn't have much hope that the air

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would stay in them that is topside long

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enough for anyone to spot

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they lasted less than a minute that

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couldn't be long enough

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left full rudder take down the run over

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rudder sir

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that was it my luck had finally run out

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ditto for my ideas I couldn't think of

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another thing to do except get back

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inside the chamber conserve my hair till

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I'll admit it I was licked physically

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and mentally but something kept my mind

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from quitting on me entirely deep deep

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down inside it a childhood memory slowly

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learned in my Cub Scout days I did have

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something that would float I was wearing

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it was cold without the shirt cold is

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it I had something much much more

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important going for me and it went

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brother how it went

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it's like I can tell it's a shirt Dave

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right full rudder sir

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dick Jennings didn't lose any time

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sending a new door down to me along with

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you cable and phone connections he was

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rough work wrestling the door all the

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said plenty of time to make a hook up I

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found it too late without that shirt

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after attaching the<font color="

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phone line and I was ready to join the

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human race

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upstairs again

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send a diver down might sound sick I'm

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just cold

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lost my shirt someplace as soon as I get

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clear it may bring about them I wasn't

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able to join up in a hurry though I was

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so exhausted that I didn't even want to

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I slept through the endless hours of

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decompression once the chamber was

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safely landed on deck<font color="

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regardez finish decompressing you you

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can come out now come on out yeah yeah

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be right there

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are you alright this must be heaven

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you're the angel admin dreamin about

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what is it what's wrong

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yeah look at a<font color="

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must have been underwater for at least

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10 years

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well then let's um try to catch up

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hi there I'm Lloyd Bridges

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skin-diving is<font color="

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full of adventure see some more of it

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again next week huh there'll be another

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excursion into that fabulous underwater

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world of sea on

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you

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you