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- I don't like anything about it. - Neither do I.

The president's right, they need to be told.

We go public on this thing, we're dead.

- Nobody is talking about going public. - It's secret or it's not secret.

- You can trust these people. - I don't trust anybody.

This Russian thing hits the papers, the whole project can blow sky high.

Let's worry about that when it happens.

Jesus, I can't believe it Jim.

Let me get this straight.

You're saying there's an American on the island of Svardlov, and you can't locate it.

And where the hell is Svardlov?

It's a small island near the Arctic circle.

Every country that's done an exploration there claims it for its own.

The Russians even put troops there, From time to time

And now you're telling us, you've lost this man on

Svardlov and you may've lost him to some Russians.

I'm telling you we have a deviation with the plan.

Our man is four days overdue at the pickup point.

Why didn't you let us handle it. We do that kind of stuff all the time.

Man had to be a mining engineer. - So why're you telling us now?

Because If there is an incident we'll need all the help we can get.

Gentlemen, if you'll follow me.

How the hell did we get ourselves into a crap like this?

I engineered this thing and I'll take the blame.

- What is this project, Jim? - The Sicilian Project.

We believe it could be The ultimate defense system.

I know you're all familiar with laser technology, that's what we're involved with.

Each one of those lights could be a power station.

Each station, when it's activated ...

will project a beam from ground to infinity.

These beams fan out and connect - make an invisible screen, like a wall.

No missile can penetrate it.

Is this theory you're talking about, or does it work?

Yes It works. There's only one catch.

In order to install the system to make it function

we need a self contain power source, a large one.

The success of our project is dependent upon

our locating a specific mineral, byzanium.

Byzanium? I've never even heard of it.

I'm not surprised, very few people have.

And you think there may be some one Svardlov is that it?

- That's what we think. - So we sent a man in.

Well, let's hope you get him out, because if

you don't, if the Russians pick him up . . .

we're going to be kissing ass in the Kremlin for the next five years.

Washington Central, this is Unit 23 requesting toll service at Jefferson Memorial.

The Sicilian Project? - Yes, captain that's what KGB calls it.

Would you read me that report again? please.

Americans interested in rare minerals, may be related to military operations.

- Code name, The Sicilian Project. - What could be so precious...

that Americans risk this kind of adventure?

Are you a chess player?

I played a little when I was a student. Why?

Do you know the name Isaac Boleslavsky?

- Of course I know him. - He was a great chess master.

Maybe the greatest of them all.

Many of the significant variations in the game were conceived by Boleslavsky ...

and one of them was called the Sicilian Defense.

All right , Marganin, let's leave it for now. We talk again tomorrow .

You know, if it wasn't for Dirk Pitt we would

be back at square one and that mining engineer

would be stretched out dead on a Russian island.

Who is Dirk Pitt?

All of a sudden he's involved in The Sicilian Project and I've never heard of him.

Used to be a Navy man.

Put his time in and retired early and since then

he and I have tackled quite a few things together.

He works for you?

Well Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't.

Depends on the job.

Looks like something that can't be done, chances are he'll take a crack at it .

Otherwise dump down.

You mean he only works when he feels like it.

Yeah, that's right.

Pardon my expression, Admiral, but he sounds like a pain in the ass.

Welcome home.

- Glad to see you Dirk. - Good to see you, Jim.

Hey, bring a gurney over. Where you going?

- See the man you brought in. - Later.

- How is he? - Lousy. He's got a hole in him that big.

We patched him up before we left Norway, but he's

lost a lot of blood and he's doped to the gills.

He can still talk can't he? I have to ask him some questions.

May be you didn't understood me.

We have to get this guy to the hospital as fast as we can.

Come on, Gene. Come on.

The mine had been stripped he said, but he was sure there was byzanium there once.

They took out five hundred pounds, maybe half a ton of the stuff.

That means the Russians got it.

No, he said the mine was worked by Americans.

He found tools and equipment that had been shipped from Colorado ...

and a copy of the Rocky Mountain News dated sometime in 1911.

- 1911? - And he found a corpse, frozen stiff.

Someone had burned his name into a board and left it with the body.

Here lies Sergeant Jake Hobart, United States Army ...

frozen in a storm, February 10, 1912.

Are you telling me the Army sent a guy up there

seventy years ago to get a half a ton of byzanium?

I am not telling you anything, I'm just repeating what Koplin told me.

What happened to you? I gave up on you three hours ago.

Oh, I got hung up. Sorry.

I don't like the look I see on your face. You look like somebody stole your popsicle.

I wish I could tell you.

Give me the headlines, Leave out the names and places.

Can't even do that.

I thought you were a nice, solid guy,

a scholar and a scientist ...

home at six, pipe and slippers.

Now, all of a sudden you've turned into Charlie Chan.

This is not funny.

Who said it was funny? Did I say it was funny?

I think I just saw five years of work go down the drain.

Have you ever heard Of a guy named Dirk Pitt?

- Who? - Dirk Pitt.

Ring a bell?

No I don't think so. Why do you ask?

Oh, I just met him. It's not important.

Well hallelujah, there's a little life in the old guy after all.

You got to put the worm on the hook.

- You know I can't do that part. - What kind of a fisher person are you?

I'm a dynamite fisher person. I just can't put the wormy on the hooky.

Very Funny.

I've got a bad conscience.

- I told a fib. - What about?

About Dirk Pitt. I do know him.

I met him when I first came to Washington. He was with the Naval Intelligence then.

- Why'd you tell me you didn't know? - I don't know.

I guess you took me by surprise. I haven't heard his name in a long time.

- Did you use to date him? - No, no, nothing like that.

No, he was too high-powered for me.

What does that mean?

Just that. He takes up all the air in the room.

Dirk Pitt. What kind of a name is that?

Sounds like a pirate.

Dr. Seagram? Are you Dr. Seagram?

I'm supposed to bring you back to Washington, Admiral Sandecker's orders.

I don't believe it. You got to be kidding.

- How did he know we were here? - I told him.

Brilliant. We'll bring him with us next time.

The Hobart file mentioned the name Brewster, Arthur Brewster ...

A con man and a mining expert.

In 1910 he discovered byzanium on the island of

Svardlov and he took at right to the U.S. Army.

Even then they saw it might have military possibilities.

So they gave him some money and some Army engineers to help...

and he hires a Norwegian whaler.

The ship delivers Brewster, Jake Hobart and the

rest of the Colorado miners to the island.

Makes a date to pick him up after they've mined the byzanium.

- What happened? - The ship picked them up on schedule.

The only problem was two days out of Svardlov

they spot a Russian cruiser tailing them.

But Brewster sticks to his plan and the whaler drops him off ...

on the coast of Scotland, north of Aberdeen and they start overland.

Plan was to get the ore to Southampton and send it home by commercial ship.

Did they make it?

They gave it a pretty good shot. They had Russian agents coming out their ears.

They fought a running gun battle all the way from Aberdeen to Southampton.

Somehow, Brewster made it and he had the ore with him .

- What happened to the other men? - All dead, except one ...

a man named Southby.

Matter of fact, the final report Brewster sent

home to the U.S. Army, all he wrote was ...

- thank God for Southby. - Then what?

He put the ore in a vault and saw it lowered into the hold of a ship.

And on April 10th, 1912 the ship sailed.

- Southampton to New York? - Right.

Brewster started home on the Titanic.

So that's where we are.

Spent five years on research and development ...

We're a kiss away from the end.

We need 200 ounces of a measly mineral we can't find ...

and when we do find it where is it?

It's at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

But at least we know where it is now, it's not just some

place, it's in one spot, waiting for us to come and get.

You're talking about 12,500 feet under water, more than two miles down.

We can't get divers down that deep.

That's right sir, we can't get divers down to the Titanic.

- Which leaves us with only one choice. - And what's that?

We don't go to the mountain, the mountain comes to us.

Are you talking about raising the Titanic.?

Yeah.

Can it be done? A ship that big, down that deep?

It's never been done before, no question about that.

But we did raise that nuclear sub a couple of year ago.

Nowhere near the same size and only a third as far down.

Admiral, I am not saying it's gonna be easy.

The odds are terrible; it'll cost a ton of money. But it's not impossible, sir.

If we get full cooperation from the Navy.

What if you did have Navy cooperation and you could get the funding?

We'd have a chance. Lots of problems and lots of risks.

We have submersibles that can go down that deep but we don't know for how long.

We have others in development that can go even deeper,

but they haven't been tested so every trip would be a gamble.

But, if we're lucky ...

we could make nuclear warfare obsolete.

- What about it, Jim? - It's a ball breaker.

The biggest marine salvage operation anybody's heard of.

Dirk says he can handle it …

I'm willing to go to the president and do my best to push it through.

Seems we are back to you, Captain Pitt.

Well, like Jim said ...

it's the biggest job with the highest stakes anybody ever dreamt of.

How can you turn it down?

Have any time for an old friend?

I don't believe it.

- My God. Where did you come from? - I don't know.

Well, as you can see, nothing surprises me. I'm ...

perfectly calm and under control.

- Come on, let's go have a cup of coffee. - I can't, I'm late ...

I was just dropping somebody off.

Gene Seagram.

Yes, yes.

He is not good enough for you.

You never thought anybody was good enough for me, including yourself.

I was right.

- You look terrific. - Thank you.

So do you. I thought you left Washington. So what are you doing?

Fooling around.

Don't give me that. You were gonna fix the world.

Yeah, that was five years ago. I discovered that they had me out numbered.

- Not you. I don't believe that. - You can believe it.

Well I got to go. It's good to see you.

- Goodbye. - Take care.

Funny, you don't look like a scientist.

How's a scientist supposed to look like?

I don't know, but if I saw you walking down the street, I might take you for a ...

a country club tennis pro.

I'd never take you for a scientist.

Well, that makes us even. I wouldn't take you for a pirate.

Here he comes. That didn't take long.

It never takes long to say no.

No, and it doesn't take long to say yes either.

Yeah. We'll see.

Good afternoon, Admiral.

We're in business.

- Good to see you again. How you doin'? - Fine.

Don't try to hide behind that fuzz ...

- I'd know you any place - I'm just keeping warm.

Well, they warned me you're the boss of this operation ...

has he told you what we're after this time?

Uh, not yet. Silent Sam.

That's all right, I like that, I'll get us there.

I'll keep the coffee hot and you two can handle the tricky stuff.

What makes you think there's gonna be some tricky stuff?

Well, there has to be.

Nobody hires you for your good looks.

Sorry. This is Dr. Seagram. Captain Joe Burke and Master Chief Walker.

Good to meet you.

- Quite an operation here. - Yeah, we got some nice toys.

I was thinking, I may be able to speed things up by

feeding all Navy's navigational and meteorological data ...

- into my computer banks. - Well now, that sounds very interesting.

Good. You can reach me through Admiral Sandecker's office.

Fine, fine. Now If you'll excuse me, I've got three days work to do before lunch.

- See you later, Dirk. - So long. Take it easy.

Alright, let's get a couple of things straight then.

This is Captain Burke's operation ...

and he's an extremely competent Navy officer. I don't think he needs your help.

As for me, I took this job on two conditions.

One, that I handle a salvage end of it my way, and two, that you stay out of my hair.

Will you remember that?

If you're trying to make me sore, Pitt, it won't work.

- This project is too important. - Good, let's keep that in mind.

The Royal Mail Ship Titanic.

Where is she now and how do we get her up? That's our problem.

This was her course, this orange line.

A southwesterly track from Southampton to her final radio position.

Latitude 41 degrees 46 minutes north, longitude

50 degrees 15 minutes west. That's where she sank.

Didn't the two rescue ships report conflicting positions?

That's right.

You can see more clearly, here in this enlargement.

The Titanic thought she was here, Carpathia had her here and Mount Temple here.

So this will be our starting point, right in the middle of this triangle.

So, one way or another, we're in the ball park.

The trouble is sir, could wind up being a damn big ball park .

We're talking about two miles under water, maybe more.

Everything at that depth, is a mystery.

That hull could a wound up a couple of miles from where she disappeared.

- Or ten. - Let's hope not.

Dr. Silverstein's group will be handling the location problems.

Our submersibles will work in concentric circles around that point, as targeted.

Let me emphasize again the importance of security.

Only those who need to know have been briefed on this operation.

You will be operating under the direct control

of the CNO here, through CINCLANT Fleet.

Any further questions? Admiral?

All right, thank you very much, gentlemen, that's all.

We got all the stuff from the White Star Line, engineering

drawings and a complete structural design for the Titanic.

Good. How about a crew list?

Yeah, we got that too - and I think maybe we lucked out.

One of the survivors is a man named Bigalow.

He was junior third officer in charge of cargo and

he's living in England, some place in Cornwall.

It's an odd thing you know. I had a few ships

shot out from under me, more than my share.

Three in the 1914-18 fraca and two in 39-45 ...

but all anybody ever asked me about is the Titanic.

And now I am doing the same thing.

And you're lucky you came to the right man.

As I said, it was cargo hold number nine.

D-deck on port side.

- You sure of that location? - No question about it.

We all saw that vault when it was loaded aboard.

And we saw the passenger who owned it, not likely to forget him...

a bushy beard and eyes like a fox.

Even if he hadn't put a gun at me the way he did, I'd remember him alright.

The gun business. You say that happened when the Titanic was already goin' down?

Lifeboats in the water, only half filled ...

people scrambling all over. It was pathetic.

I was on my way up to the boat deck to give a hand ...

When this crazy little fellow shoves a gun in my face.

Wanted to go to cargo hold number nine ...

and if I wouldn't take him, he'd shoot me in my tracks.

That's what he said.

Well I was a young fellow then...

wanted to live as long as I could, so I took him.

As it turned out, number nine was the only hold not already flooded.

Once he got in there, spotted what he was looking for, he was happy.

When I have nightmares about that lovely ship going

down I always see that crazy old man with the gun.

That was the last time you saw him, down there in the hold?

That's right. He wouldn't leave.

He went up to that vault of his, oh, a huge thing ...

eight foot square, and patted it as if it was a dog, muttering to himself.

- And you remember what it was he said? - The same thing over and over.

Thanks to God for ...

Southby. Thank God for Southby.

This must be a pretty quiet life for a man like you

God help a man who can't live by himself.

We all end up in a single way, sooner or later.

Ay, here he is then, the proprietor himself.

I had almost given ye up.

What do you have, a whiskey or a nice pint of bitter?

Just a moment, Sarah.

This is Sarah Martindale , a woman of substance, a beauty and a warm heart.

And this is Captain Pitt, of the United States Navy.

Retired, like myself.

Retired mighty early, if I may say so.

Keep your hands off him Sarah and give us two large pink gins.

Full measure and don't skimp the Angostura.

Sarah talk's big ... but the

fact is she is frightened silly of men.

Those of us who know her best, suspect she's still a maiden.

Oh my God, the man's gone off.

Come under the quarterdeck.

This is my Titanic collection.

All that's left of her, except for memories.

What a lovely thing she was . . .

standing as high in the water as one of your skyscrapers.

Longer than two rugby fields ...

and furnishing to match the finest mansions in England.

She was one of a kind, no question about it ...

and God himself, they said, couldn't sink her.

Then in two hours she was gone...

and fifteen hundred souls with her.

I took the pennant off her before she went down.

If you manage to bring her up again ...

maybe you'd put it back, where it belongs.

Control, this is Deep Quest at 8,000 feet, searching section 22.

Visibility fair, negative contacts. Out.

This is Turtle, depth 9,200 feet. No contacts. Out.

This is Starfish at 10,000 feet, conducting sonar search section 24. No contacts.

- Depth? - 11,420.

6000 pound per square inch.

One of these days the water gonna squash us like bug.

- What are you bitchin' about, Merker? - I got plenty of reasons to bitch.

Cruisin' around down here in this tin can ... looking for what?

We're looking for whatever's down here

Hey guys, hate to spoil your fun, we're going up. Pitt's coming in.

Well good, maybe we can find out what we're looking for.

Marine Air Base One to Three.

Three Marine.

Wind is coming from 220 degrees at 18 knots.

Roger. 220 at 18 knots.

Helo three you're cleared

- Anything happening down there? - No, nothing yet.

Which brings up a point, I think the sub crews

should be told what they're looking for..

- It'd help morale. - Yeah, sounds like a good idea to me.

Why don't we hold a briefing this afternoon?

We have a visitor, did you notice?

Yeah, I spotted the Russian flag as we were coming in.

Looks like a marine research vessel.

That means they only got maybe half a dozen gun crews aboard.

Oh, they're just nosing around.

They don't know what we're looking for.

Not yet, anyway.

Deep Quest, this is Starfish. Have sonar contact in section 26 at depth 12,700 feet.

Request permission to investigate.

This is Deep Quest. Negative. Maintain present depth.

You are only certified to 12,000 feet. We'll check it out.

This is Turtle, depth 11,400 feet. Searches Section 36 complete without contact.

Starfish, this is Deep Quest. Request you conduct sonar

search section 33 at maximum depth of 12,000 feet.

This is Starfish. Roger. Out.

This is Starfish, approaching 12,000 feet. Continuing sonar search. Over.

This is Control. Do not exceed 12,000 foot depth limit. Out.

Lieutenant.

Control, this is Starfish.

- Bridge, Control. - Bridge, aye.

The Starfish reports she's flooding. We're trying to get more information.

- Release the battery pods. - Battery pods away.

Control, this is Starfish, we're flooding, trying to surface.

Repeat, this is Starfish, we're flooding, trying to surface. Over

Starfish ...

Control, this is Starfish ...

It's gone dead.

Starfish ...

Starfish, this is control.

It's dead. We lost contact.

Where's the Turtle?

In the water -- 11,000 feet, heading for the Starfish's position.

This is Turtle. We have Starfish in visual contact.

She's going down fast, they've got to lose some weight.

- We have taken on too much water. - Hit the panic switch, release the sphere.

- Release the damn sphere. - I'm trying to.

Control, the Starfish just imploded. Request permission to surface.

Yeah, Klink.

Come on up.

Doctor Silverstein and I have completely reworked the data.

Oh bullshit. I've heard that story a dozen times.

While you're busy here screwing around with your computers

we been out there five weeks -- we have found nothing.

Meanwhile, I just lost three men.

I think they found the answer now, Dirk.

Go on.

The new projections based on a theory that all the

reported positions were slightly off and most important

we failed to take into account the smoke stack

that cracked off as the Titanic went down.

We built a scale model of the Titanic, perfectly

weighted and balanced in exact proportion.

In two hundred experiments the trajectory of the descent

didn't vary by more than one tenth of one degree ...

and it landed exactly where your submersibles have been looking.

Then we did it without the smoke stack and we hit a completely different position.

Four hundred times we repeated this process ...

and every time it landed within inches of the same spot.

Every single time.

Bingo ... as we read it the Titanic's almost ten miles southeast of where ...

Ten miles!

That's right. We've got to move the entire salvage operation to this new location.

That's not going to be easy Gene, you just can't leapfrog over ten miles of ocean.

For all we know, the Titanic could be dead center in the area we're bypassing.

If it is, we'll find it as we work our way back.

- Find it as we work back ... - We gotta take the gamble.

We can't do any worse than we're doing.

I know I'm right about this new position. I'm sure of it.

I hope so.

Another couple of weeks under water and those

submersible crews will come after you with a harpoon.

Looks like we passed over something metallic. The metal detector picked it up.

Ok, stay on it. Give us a fix.

- There. But it's just below us. - Roger, now we'll hover here.

Stay on the magnetometer. Sing out if you see anything.

- Wait a minute. - What, you saw something?

Yeah, I think so, but it's about three o clock. See that funny shape there?

It's wedged between two rocks.

Okay, stand by the manipulator.

Here we come.

Got it.

What is it?

Looks like some kind of a horn.

May I, Doctor Vogel? - Oh yes, certainly.

Please.

Presented to Graham Farley by the grateful management of the White Star Line.

Now the White Star did some checking through their

records and it turns out that Graham Farley ...

was a musician for three years on a ship called the Olympic. Then he was transferred.

Graham Farley was the cornet player in the Titanic's orchestra.

Are you sure of that?

No question, no question, it's all documented.

That means we're looking in the right place, at least we're getting close.

It also means that the Titanic must be in excellent condition.

Wait a minute, don't break out the champagne yet.

This is a step in the right direction, but we're not looking for cornets ...

we're looking for a ship 900 feet long -- we still can't find it.

Where the hell is she? She disappear?

Very disturbing.

- Are these sources totally reliable? - Absolutely.

Is such a defense system possible?

We put that question to our military scientists in Moscow.

They say it is feasible, but it would take a very strong power source.

And you say that power source locked in a cargo hold of the Titanic?

All signs points to that. I believe it.

- Bridge, Radio. - Bridge, aye.

Yes sir, Captain. We're picking up that interference again on the VHF.

- Roger. you taping it? - Yes sir.

There's not much pattern to it, sounds like static. It's only on one frequency.

Keep on it. Call me back when it stops.

Aye aye, sir.

What the hell is that all about?

We're picking up some kind of strange interference at night.

Schenectady and Carpenter hear it too, but not as loud as we do.

They're goin' crazy on the Seacliff. They found something.

What?

I don't know but they're getting a big bounce in sonar.

Seacliff, this is Pitt. What's up?

This is Seacliff. I think we're smelling something.

Our metal detector is going bananas.

Good, stay on it. We're coming over.

Seacliff, this is Deep Quest. We have you in sight at nine o'clock.

This is Seacliff. Roger. Do you have sonar contact with target?

Roger. Coming in strong and getting stronger.

There it is. Something dead ahead.

Bohannon, can you make it out?

Well, whatever it is, it's got about ten layers of sea critters on it.

- It's a smoke stack for Christ's sake. - Could be.

Bulls eye.

Looks like Seagram was right for once.

Control, this is Deep Quest.

We just spotted a smoke stack.

Mark our position.

This is Control. Roger. Position marked. Out.

- What do you think? - I think maybe we're gonna get lucky.

- Seacliff, anything over there? - Negative.

Keep your eyes open.

Let's stay on this course.

- Whata ya got now on the metal detector? - Nothing ahead.

Wait a minute, what the hell is that?

It's a straight drop to nowhere.

Control, this is Deep Quest.

The ocean floor just disappeared.

We're going down till we can find it again.

Are you gentlemen thinking what I'm thinking?

If she's down in this hole, no wonder we couldn't find her.

We got something.

- Deep Quest, this is Seacliff. - Look at that.

We're getting strong signals on all our equipment.

Roger, so are we.

Ease over this way.

The metal detector's jumped of its track.

Deep Quest, this is the Seacliff. I think we're on to something, dead ahead.

Roger. You sure are. Hang in there.

I think we hit the jackpot.

Holly Christ ...

Are you absolutely certain?

No question. A direct report to our ship standing by there.

All right, here is what we do.

See that the press gets the story, only one paper ...

And make sure that Admiral Sandecker's name is prominent in the list of facts.

Just the Titanic story?

No, the byzanium too.

Let's see what kind of explanation they come up with, eh?

Yes sir.

This story from today's Washington Star.

The Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage April 14, 1912, has been found ...

over two miles down at the bottom of the Atlantic.

No official announcements yet, but one thing is certain ...

the imaginations of millions of people will be stimulated.

In world history there is only one Titanic ...

Rumors persist that the Navy plans to raise her.

Why are they doing this ... we don't know ...

but we understand there is a defense plan, called The Sicilian Project ...

and a little known mineral, more powerful than uranium ...

with the unusual name of byzanium.

This is Sandor Vanocur, in Washington.

Of course I wrote that story. Why shouldn't I?

The information came in and I wrote it up. That's my job.

What about my job? It looks like I gave you the information.

- Everybody in here's gonna think that. - Who cares what anybody thinks?

You know you didn't tell me anything and so do I.

I didn't even connect it with you. I still don't know what you're up to.

You trying to tell me that this story just flew in through the window?

No, I am not telling you that. I have lots of sources.

That's what I mean. Who told you?

I can't tell, you that. I won't tell you that and you know it.

Dana, you have to. It's critical. If there's a leak, we have to stop.

What do you mean by a leak? I don't even know what you're talking about.

The hell you don't. It was a secret. That's what I'm telling you. Nobody knew about it.

Hardly anybody knew about it.

It has to be somebody on the inside who told you. Busby? Huh? Nicholson?

How about your old friend, Pitt?

Did he tell ya?

So that's what this is all about.

That's what this is really about, it's about Pitt.

- Oh for Christ sake ... - It is and you know it.

You have been looking for an excuse to unload

on me ever since you met him ... ever since ...

I don't give a damn about him.

The hell you don't, you can't get him out of your head.

What?

So let's just get it straight once and for all.

I lived with him for two years and I was crazy about him.

That's terrific, that's just terrific. If you were so

damn crazy about him, why didn't you stay with him?

Because I was stupid.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

Sir, after all this time won't the Titanic be rusted away to nothing?

We don't think so. At a depth of more than two miles ...

there's less oxygen, the water is much colder ...

and there are fewer destructive marine organisms.

She may be surprisingly sound.

The Titanic ... she sank because the ice ripped a huge hole in her hull.

Now how is she supposed to float with the hole still there?

Well, she can't. So we're going to patch it with special metal plates...

and to make her buoyant...

we're going to fill her lower compartments with synthetic foam.

pumped in through hoses placed in position by our submersible crews.

As the foam goes in, the water in the hull is forced out ...

giving us 22 thousand tons of lift.

Will all this foam bring the Titanic to the surface?

No, we're going need additional lift. Now this will be supplied by these tanks ...

filled with hydrazine gas under high pressure

and anchored to the Titanic's hull.

Then explosives charges will be placed on the sea

bottom around the hull and when they are detonated

the hull will be jarred loose from the bottom suction,

and the Titanic will come to the surface.

If and when you raise it, then what?

Then we will hold another press conference.

Thank you all very much.

Are you sure you can't tell us something about this mineral, byzanium?

I mean how does it fit into this whole operation?

I've given you all the information I have on that.

Sir, they say it's more powerful than plutonium. Is that true?

- I've no further comment on that. - What about The Sicilian Project?

Is it really a code name for a defense system ...

or a super bomb with the biggest warhead yet?

No comment.

Is it true that byzanium could fuel a bomb ...

a thousand times more powerful than bomb of Hiroshima?

That's it, gentlemen. I've given you everything I can for now.

- What do you think, Vinnie? - Doesn't sound like any code I ever heard.

And you know the tapes we made had a much higher intensity ...

than the ones they recorded on Schenectady and Carpenter.

Yeah, makes you think that the signal, whatever it is,

originates here on the Denver.

Damn sure does.

Any word from Naval Intelligence?

Sandecker says he'll have a report by tomorrow.

- What's it say about him? - Merker? He's all right.

He's got a good record.

He served as a civilian technician in Vietnam, got captured.

Spent two years in a prison camp ...

and another year in Japan to get over that. Married to a Japanese girl.

Yeah, that's what it says, only she wasn't Japanese.

She grew up in Nam Dinh.

Her family's still living in Haiphong and her brother

in the North Vietnam Army Intelligence.

How the hell did we miss that one?

It's painted over. We were supposed to miss it.

So they finally let you come down with us.

- I thought you'd never make it. - Neither did I.

There's no time like the first time. How's it look to you?

Nothing like I expected.

We're going to have a problem with that one.

Let's take a look.

It's hung up on the stack. We're gonna need help.

Try Deep Quest.

Deep Quest, this is Turtle. We need some help

with this hydrazine tank, it's hung up on the stack.

This is Deep Quest, can do. Be right there.

Alright, let's do it. Get the manipulators ready.

- This is Deep Quest, we're hooked up. - This is Turtle. You pull, we'll push.

It's moving.

It feels like it's stuck on something.

We gotta cushion the Deep Quest.

Stow the manipulator.

Son of a bitch, they got themselves hooked into that skylight.

Come on, baby.

Come on, you pretty little thing.

Get your Daddy out of this.

Come on ...

Indicates electrical fire on the left.

Battery acid. Put your mask on.

We're at too steep of an angle. Acid's running out of the emergency batteries.

I've lost half the power on the panel.

Can we break out these battle lanterns.

Right, knock off the power.

We're going up.

Bohannon, move on over here and standby Deep Quest.

Roger. We're on our way.

- How's it look down there? - No good.

Seagram picked a lousy day to go to sightseeing.

He's a scientist. Who the hell authorized him for submersible duty?

How bad is it?

Ah, they got themselves jammed into that skylight like a cork in a bottle.

We're fighting time. They lost almost all battery power ...

and they're gonna be running out of air. They're lucky if they have six hours left.

- What're their choices? - No choices.

If we can't cut loose that submersible ...

we gotta bring up the Titanic.

Six hours? How do we do that?

Target dates two weeks away.

Our target date just got changed.

Here's what we gotta do.

Eighty charges, each one containing a hundred pounds of explosives ...

at these key points under the hull. Why're you shaking your head?

I'm not shaking my head, I'm shaking all over.

Those charges are double what we planned.

If anything goes wrong we lose four men.

But if we don't bring 'em up, we lose 'em anyway.

They got two chances to die and one to live.

All right, now we're going to detonate the starboard charge first.

Eight seconds later, first one on the port side ...

another eight seconds we're back to starboard.

We alternate the explosions all the way down the hull ...

so's we setup a rocking motion like you do with a car when it's stuck in the mud.

Wait a minute, wouldn't it be better to put an extra large charge right under the bow

- That way we could jolt it loose. - Too dangerous.

This way we start the right movement with less risk to the men.

Carbon dioxide's going up.

- Can we get some more air? - No, we cannot.

I'm moving it down so we can conserve on energy.

- The less we talk, the longer we've got. - Exactly.

Everybody just sit down and relax.

Okay, arm it.

Control, this is Seacliff. Explosives secure.

- All clear. - Roger.

Control, this is Turtle. All charges secured.

Seacliff, Turtle, this is Control. Get the hell out of there.

Moving out.

This is Turtle. ETA on surface, 13:05. We're leaving the Titanic.

- Start the countdown. - Start the countdown. Aye aye, sir?

All stations, T minus 50.

Activating hydrazine generators.

Twelve, eleven, ten, nine ...

eight, seven six, five ...

- four, three, two, one. - Mark.

- Christ, what was that? - They're trying to blast us loose.

Can they do it?

They're going to blow the hell out of this sub.

It's just laying there. Move, you bastard, move.

What the hell is going on?

Late hits, the last two charges just went off.

Something's happening, something's moving down there.

Isn't that a beautiful son of a bitch.

It's incredible.

There she is.

Yeah ...

but where the hell's the Deep Quest?

The explosives must have jarred her loose.

There she is.

We can't budge this surface, hatch cover's just as jammed as the others.

Ah, you gonna need dynamite to get out of that mess.

Yeah, just forget it. Keep the pumps running.

We got to wait until we're towed to New York for the right equipment.

What's happened? Where's the Carpenter gone?

There's a distress call, there's a freighter in trouble.

We're in trouble, for Christ's sake. We need that ship.

- We can't ignore a distress call. - You wanna talk about distress?

We got Navy weather forecasting a force 12 storm

the Russians are looking down our throats...

we're on a ship never learned how to do anything but sink. That's distress.

From the Russian ship. They're asking for permission

to send a man over here, a Captain Prevlov.

What's that all about.

Well, they're offering give us a hand in case the weather gets bad.

Permission granted, Captain Prevlov can come aboard.

Admiral, you sure we want to do this?

Why not? We might as well listen to what he's got to say.

Welcome to the Titanic, Captain.

Our time is precious, so I'll come straight to the point.

We're offering you the safety of our ship.

My helicopter can carry ten men at a time.

Gee, that's very nice of you. Uh, what happens

to the Titanic if we accept your offer?

- An empty ship on an open sea. - What's the Russian word for piracy?

No, it's not question of piracy. It is a international law of marine salvage.

The hell it is.

We know about the byzanium.

Stolen from a mine on Russian territory.

You must trust me, gentlemen, what I tell you that we're

determined to take back what is morally and legally ours.

Mikhail Kurkov is a torpedo ship.

If her captain has no signal from me eight minutes from now...

he will sink this ship, that we are standing on.

What if you do get the byzanium, then what?

- It's worthless if you don't have ... - A Sicilian Defense system?

No, it's not worthless at all.

If this byzanium will produce a superior weapon ...

then Russia must have it to guarantee the security of her people.

We arm ourselves only ...

as a deterrent to war.

The clock keeps on ticking, gentlemen.

All right, Prevlov, I'll make it fast.

We knew you were coming aboard here today we knew what your pitch would be exactly.

This is Pitt. Bring on the surprise package.

Come on, I'll prove it to you.

Like I said, you don't have much choice, Captain.

I see.

Gentlemen ...

That's got it.

- No water. - Sealed tight.

Watch it.

And here lies Arthur Brewster, sunk with the Titanic.

All right. Let's get those boxes out of there and get 'em opened up.

Just like the others, gravel.

- It doesn't make sense. - A dead man and seven boxes of crap.

Arthur Brewster's papers.

Listen, we know that byzanium existed.

We know Brewster had it. It's gotta be some place.

We worked and sweat and come up with nothing.

Three men dead, the whole Sicilian Project tossed on the junk pile.

How the hell that we blow this thing?

There must be some kind of an answer, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.

I'm just as disappointed as you are, Gene.

I hate to quit on anything, but sometimes you have no choice.

If it makes you feel any better ...

I'll tell you something I didn't want to admit even to myself.

If we'd found the byzanium, I'm not sure we could hung on to it.

I don't think we could have tagged it for defense only and made it stick.

- We got the president's assurance of that. - Yeah , that's right, but ...

Presidents don't stay in office forever and even if they did circumstances change.

- What does that mean? - Well, it means that, uh ...

if the government falls in the Middle East or somewhere ...

they start bombing Pakistan or somewhere else...

It effects all of us.

What this got to do with The Sicilian Project?

Nothing. Maybe ...

I'm just saying that somewhere in the world in some think tank, right now...

they're figuring out a way to build a byzanium bomb.

Why, if you knew that...

in God's name why did you go along with this whole operation?

Because I believed in what we were trying to do.

And if it didn't work defensively ...

if somebody was going to make a byzanium bomb ...

I wanted it to be us.

He thinks just like you do. I don't understand that kind of thinking.

You're both couple of cynics. You think this is some kind of lousy game.

If I thought the way Sandecker does I wouldn't

started the damn project in the first place.

I'm glad we didn't find the stuff.

Are you?

Okay?

But I'm not got to let you wriggle off the hooks so easy, Seagram.

Not now.

Take a look at this.

It's a postcard. I saw it.

That's right. An English postcard. We all saw it.

Brewster must have bought it, stuck it in his briefcase and never mailed it.

Take a look at the fine print on the back. Come on, read it.

Uh ...typical country church and grave yard in

county of Hampshire near the village of Southby.

Southby?

Twenty miles from Southampton.

We were wrong.

We thought it was a man, but it's a place.

Thank God for Southby.

And this is the one. Jake Hobart.

I'll go get the shovels.

Excuse me.

Jackpot.

- Do you want us to dig it up? - I don't know.

You'll have to ask Doctor Seagram that question.

It's your decision, Gene. Whether you like it or not.

Don't you want us to dig it up?

No.

What's so funny?

- I knew a girl once . - I'll bet you did.

Years later I ran into her again, she says, what happened to you?

I thought you were going to change the world.

- What'd you say? - I said they had me out numbered.

Is that my lesson for the day?

No more lessons. No more lectures.

You mean school's out?

Yeah, you just graduated, professor.