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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are somewhere in the Pacific, out of Letty in
the Philippines, charting a course of south by southeast, when
out of the deep of the sea a new volcano
is born, and your ship is caught in the middle
of it, from which there is no escape.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Listen now as Escape brings you Vincent mceugh's story The
Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It you would have been an easy trip. It was
the spring of forty five, the war was almost over,
and what few Japs were left that far south didn't
figure to give us any trouble. I was first made
of the Hope by Victory, hauling cargo with the Landings
and the Philippines. But this trip we detoured south to
the Tailee Island of Karazuti and the Malocas to pick
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up a detachment of rangers, a demolition team, and bring
them up to Samar. We cleared for another about eighteen
thirty hours, and his darkness fell. I went out of
there I found Lieutenant Drury the range of CEO and
the stop sergeant watching gam Kamora, the volcano over on
the island.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I'm McCallum eating mate. Quite a sight, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Sure is? But thenver get better.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We passed closer to it after Nati and the dog.
You can see the lava spouting like fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
We got a look at a small one back on
Casuuti inactive. So wle group of violins on both sides
of the strait is volcanic, you're telling.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Me, tryumph Now you can have my share them. That
big baby there used to keep us awake nights rumbling.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They aren't exactly conducing to peace of mind, I'll admit, sergeant,
but they're very interesting. I'd like a chance to study
one more closely. Not for me, Lieutenant, Well, probably won't
get another chance.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Now. The men all comfortable, Sergeant, Well, it ain't the
Queen Mary, sir, but they're okay.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sorry, this baby.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Wasn't meant but troop transplant, no matter. We're used to improvising.
Well night, gentlemen. Nice sharing, nice guy, the best one
of them.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Guys with principles serious, you know, educating them kind usually
get clobbered first thing, but he's come through, bloody. You
have a time back there in not much Jap radio station,
half starved out already. Of course they put up a fight,
they always do.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But not so bad.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Hey, look at that thing Belchian smoke a mile high, flashing.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Like yeah, spectacular.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
All right, Hey, lieutenant, could I could I interest you
in a human scalp tand with mangrove bark got me
a couple of extra back there someone cheap?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh, thanks Sigon. I got one scalp. I hope that'll
last me the rout.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That night, for the first time since we left home,
I couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To sleep, and tried reading a while and gave that
up too.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Finally I got a cup of coffee and took one
up to Hannigan.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
On the bridge.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Hey, thanks Mac, just what I needed.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We sipped our coffee quietly. Bosum stood silently at the wheel.
The time is over four twenty five hours. We were
steaming up through the Maluka passage, of course, one degree
true speed, eighteen knots, a smooth, gentle swell. The phosphorescence
in the bower wash was brightened enough to show hands
and faces.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was peaceful. Hey, mac, ay mac, you smell anything coffee? No,
come here, stand over here.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, little sulfur and something that smells like wet does.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's what I thought too, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Well, couldn't it say?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Isn't there a volcano over there on Helmhera or you
might be getting a little land breeze?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, but we passed it an hour back. I'll take it.
I got them, you guys spitting over the sat up there.
What's the matter, Brian, I just.
Speaker 10 (04:58):
Happened to notice my intake more is heating up very much. Well,
it's supposed to be about twenty five degrees centigrade around here.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's twenty nine. Now we're pulling sludge too.
Speaker 10 (05:08):
Looks like pumas.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Okay, I guess you better call the captain Hagan smell that, captain.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yes, you check the ships to account, Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sir, Boyd and Parman went over to nothing wrong.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Yes, well stop the engines. Yes, mister Hannigan, you check our.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Position, Yes, Captain, it's verified here on the.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Chart sonic depth finder on mister Greene.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Yes, Sir turned it out right away, reads one one.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Four three fables. I'll see here this is where we
are about thirty five miles west of Kumbakia, and how
the hero nautical miles that is? Yes, over here you
see less than three miles northwest. You've got a bigea.
Somebody reported the show there once, hasn't been found again since.
Might be anywhere in the general vicinity. I see here
it's marked eighteen fathoms he the existence stand for reported.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
February eighteen seventy one.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And if there is something there, it can't be anything
but a submarine mountain that we those depths all around him.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Yeah, it's probably volcanic. One of those buggers that push up,
you know, and sink back down again. Got some of
them up in the burnings. But all we've got to
go on is this old captain that came through here
in eighteen seventy one, probably a whaler. Didn't care where
he was so long as he had his foot on
a fish. You think he could have got his bearings
and helm my hair.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I can't tell.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I suppose now here's this old fellow dawdling through here
in February northwest monsoon at its height, fairly good winds
mostly north or western north current sets about two knots
of the wind. So if he's out in his reckoning,
you see, it's probably because he's farther over to the
south of east than he thought like this, that puts
us pretty close to the trouble.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Go up to the southeast, because we don't know how
far art he was.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
If he was out now here, we could go this way,
but it seems foolish to backtack on our course and
then go west to get fair. Don't see why we
wouldn't be safe if we cut across the angle to
the southwest. That sounds right to me, Kevin, Yes, we
should be safe enough.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, let's hope. So it's the Grand Jeans.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Then by the death finder and sing out if again. Initially, yes, sir,
the ship was a donge GQ. The engine stopped the
near the ocean. Silence hung over everything.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
They're still dark, but a soft glimmer was beginning to
show behind the peaks.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And how maham, it's not.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
The engines half speed?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Yes, they're half speed.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The returning pulse of the engines, like a reviving heartbeat,
seemed to bring the ship back to LFE.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
You were about two twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Five our by victory began to gather away, turning the
person got her around, met her and settled on course.
Haddigan stood by the bridge farm for minutes. We stood quietly,
watching and waiting. Now there was a rosy smear in
the east behind us, are glooming on the sea. I
could just make out the bow, and a man silhouetted
in the cross nest a bubble.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Ronnie engine Room says thirty two degrees.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Up, three degrees Yeah, stand the phonness to Hannigan, report
any change. Another few minutes we'll be able to see
a little more.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Captain man in the cross nest. He's waiting.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Tomina reads thirty eight craves rocks that had full left rudder,
full left rudder.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Who we could see it now, not five hundred yards ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Nothing in a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It had ever been so awful as that jagged rocky crest,
hunching and lifting like the back of a great dawn lizard.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
In the yellow light. It came fuming of the seas,
slimy with the first mud of creation. The slow swell
pitched up on it.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
We could fill its deep grumbling roar through the noise
of the engines.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The ship was turning. Now, No one spoke.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We stared with slow understanding of the horror that began
to form in all our minds.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The monster was not a single peak.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The ridge we'd seen coming up in the southwest was
extending itself in a long curve of points and benches
all across.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
The south caper turning, keeper turning.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
But it was already too late.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Clear across the red pink wash of dawn, a black
spur joined under the east, and when we looked north,
the swell was lipping up on a jag of blue
rocket thickened to the west and hooked on down into
the southwest. The happy victory was completely encircled. We were
trapped in the middle of an emerging wall came up.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You are listening to the Boiling Sea Tonight's presentation of escape.
Keep the family intact this holiday weekend by driving safely,
observe speed laws, stay on your side of the road,
and don't try to save time at the risk of
losing a lifetime. Driving's more relaxed, more fun that way,
and safer too. And now back to escape. And the
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second act of the Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Took a few seconds for the full impact of the situation,
hits encircle trapped in a crater of jagged rising peaks
on every quarter of the compass. Still nobody said anything
until Captain has It spoke in a quiet voice.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
All right, stop the engine.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Then we all know.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
The wires dropped away, and the hope by victory settled
floating dead, and a fuming, black brown lake that bubbles
like muddy coming to a boiled the terrible stony rumbling
jot up to the soles of my shoes.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Well I got you fellows into this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh no, cap you did the best you could.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
How could anyone know where an unshot at mountain would
come up out of the sea, Hagan.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
I don't want to get you fellas too excited up there,
but you better quit smoking. We're getting sixty eight degrees
centigrade on this thing. Got any anchine went boiled? What
is going on up there?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Brownie?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We're in a volcano.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Well, I always told you something like this would happen.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know, you gotta watch.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You're doing sixty eight degrees integrate, sir, Well Jonah made it.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a hole in it somewhere.
We can wait till it settles down, get the boats out.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Yes, by gully, I mean idea, mister McCallum, If we
do a good job of Savene, maybe they'll forgive us.
Or getting into it in the first place.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No one mentioned the chance that we might never get out.
We lived in the crater of a mountain interruption. We're
still working and thrusting, but its force had began to
die down.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
In the west and southwest.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Its highest peaks through maybe fifty sixty feet above the sea.
In the north and northwest much lower. We could see
the swell breaking over two places.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Sir Hannigan, you will check and recheck the position. Yes, Captain,
it's the Grand Gene. You will take bearings and measurements
of the rim, starting at zero degrees and working all
around the companies. Yes, Karen, you will pass the word
that we're I'm going to try getting out of here
just as soon as the first shark is over. I
don't wanted to think we're not doing anything. Yes, might
let the people down in the engine room now, and
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the gun crew and tell Lieutenant Drury and his rangers.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes him, all right, thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I carried the message to the other officers men were
hanging over the rail looking at the dead fish in
the Pubian water. Everybody was coughing sickly. Gases came up
in spurts and slow blobs. Here and there are small
guys that paddered down stones and mud on the water.
There was a washer gloomy sun on the crags to
the west. Beyond lay the glimmer of the Molucca Passage.
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Like the whole of life itself, it seemed very distant now.
At breakfast, the captain was still cheer.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
All right, gentlemen, we may as well eat. May not
have another chance for a while. What do you think
so well? Looks as if the one is about over.
We get the boats out after breakfast. See if we
can't find a hole in it? Just a western omelet
for me mass. What if we can't do that, maybe
we can find a place to get the boats across,
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isn't father? I'm a hero, You know about thirty six miles,
But I'd hate to wish I knew more about how
these volcanoes behaved. Might sink down again in an hour
or two, or it might keep building up.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Could I make a suggestion, Captain hazard, Yes, go ahead,
Lieutenant Drury, My boys are training demolition.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Word we can find the right place.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I think we might be able to blast a hole
big enough of the ship to get through.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yes, thank you, lieutenant. Yes, we've been thinking the same thing.
Only trouble is a blast like that might set the
whole business off. I suppose we'd better wait till we've
tried everything else.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
First, we take the boats out right after breakfast.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yes, mister McCallum, you will take one and go north
to the rim. Follow it to the east. Mister Hannigan,
we'll take the other south and follow it west. Lieutenant Drury,
A detail of your rangers can go in each boat.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What about communications?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, too bad. We don't have radios in the boats.
We'll have to use flare guns. One flare if you
find a hole big enough for the ship, confirm it
with a handlead then two flares to come on the
usual recall signal. Well, gentlemen, we're in God's hands now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Fifty yards, sir, these are and slowly busting right into
the rocks.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Yes, sir, take a look at that water man, don't
see anything like its slimy gas bubbling up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm very inviting take a look at what's the head, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, it doesn't look like any rock I've ever seen before.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
It's something monstrous, something tortured about it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, all yours, lieutenant, Ready, Sergeant foutah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ready, sir easy.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Boston, alright, aldim steady.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
All right you guys go.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Okay, good now, I hand over with the pigs. Get
specimens of the rock. Bot all you're going up the
top and check.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yes, this doesn't look very promising.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
No, it's only twenty feet high, but we haven't got
enough explosive to blast through. Here must be gap somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
There's vota on top of it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Vota.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Can you see anything about?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
And he breaks to the east and to see any
head town for sure though, All right, come back, we'll
go down farther.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We cruise slowly along the rim through the dirty, brown,
black simmering water, stopping every few hundred yards to break
off specimens of rock. It was hot, We felt as
if our bodies were drenched in a heated grease. The
crater had a general downhill trend to the eastward in
the northeast sectory. It came to what appeared the lowest
point here the swell broke Claire across the shallow pitch.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
This is the best place for blasting we've seen yet.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, it doesn't look bad. It might be possible.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Let me take four of my men on those rocks
and try to find some likely openings for charges, just
in case.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Okay, moving class again, busting listen drawing.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Those rocks are wet and that's swell. There's plenty of power.
Watch yourselves.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Don't worry about us.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Maybe we don't mind wet feet.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Uh huh, center razy busson.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Okay, boys, horever we go. Come on, get the let
out a right man, spring up, look for.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
The cracks all off, Boston, Can you stand by with
the line secured, ready to toss him just in case?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
How about this?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Mate?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Do you think we'll have to try it?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Last? Is that?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I don't know what looks like? Maybe unless Hannigan found
something we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Blasting in this stuff is like letting a fire cracker
on a dynamite factory.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
May have to take the chance.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, yeah, look back there until the ship a dirty
yellow guck. We're going to break out the gas mass
we had, gas man?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What was that an explosion?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Underneath this.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The whole thing's going on sinking.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Look the man they're sinking from the line, los.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
And hurry, hey, dry, grab the line, get your man
on it.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
We'll pull you in. That's it, passing on out of
your hurry.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
All right, the wrong on, Hey, bring him in he
fast as you can.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay, his drawery, get it? Then hurry home on, Come on?
What's hurting the whole things?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Morning? Keep having foot? Where's moto?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I got him right here?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Come on up heat, God of Heaven, keep aligmantic for
all right, here's the next te to be hoisted in
us three? All right, coming easier.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Now let's hang me for Come on, fellow.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Cramp one more trouble man, all right, craig.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So we can get out of here. The line's coming too.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
First trouble, where's trouble?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
White? A little tennant?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Stop him holding drawery.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
You can't trouble us.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Tell him that you can't come back in without a
line tying around.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
His waist wall. I'm going to all right, but tying
to that line then we'll be able to hide you back.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
They went over the side, disappearing into the murk on
the sludgy water.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The shocks were increasing in violence. Now they jared their
teeth and my heads.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We looked toward this ship and saw the western rim
of the crater thrusting up in a great.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Wall behind it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Then Walt's head appeared close to the boat, his face black,
and he shook a hopeless no. He dived again two
or three times, and then let us pull him in.
But Drury wouldn't give up. Come on, pull him in.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
He's fighting us.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We'll fight him back and get himmember this boat. Yes, sir, here,
I'll give you a hat.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
He let me cool. We gotta get the tubble, let
me go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You can't waste any more time. Yeah, it's no use, straw.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
But he's in there somewhere. We can't just let him
stay there. Man, No, no, honey, all right, laws and
take her off.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But I'm sorry if I'm trouble with tenort. But he
is one man. There are a hundred men back there
in the hold by victory. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Sorry, it's getting worse every minute.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'm gonna do anything.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
We gotta do it fair. Hey, look over there with
the rock sank.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That GAP's big enough for the ship. Yeah, maybe, but
is it deep enough?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
It's gotta be the whole thing. Make a one any
minute like a roll of chin.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, Boston fire, one flat. Walt got the hand lead,
I've got it. Who quote, don't have a drag at.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Ten fathoms a quarter across the gap, sing out if
you feel anything. The boat moved slowly across the old
edge of the crater and out into the open sea.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Walt, holding the lead line, shook his head at me.
He felt nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I turned carefully in the swell and carted back into
the crater. I could see the hope by Victory creeping
toward us. She'd recalled hanning It's boat and was dragging
ahead of her in a narrow s curve. They were
like vessels under shelfire. The whole center of the crater
was writhing with smoke and erupting guises of much in stone.
We can see rocks falling on the deck behind the ship.
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The western crags now jet a three hundred feet high,
lifting and working in black aggon.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The ship was coming on fast. We were the last chance.
Do you feel what they want? Nothing? Can they make it?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
They've gotten too fat.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Two flowers and we'll stand out to see him make
a target for him.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Hey, better hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There's things about the blow.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's top all right, here too all sad? What's that here?
You'll never make it.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
A GAP's too small, tight squeeze.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The captain's got it perfectly centered.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I'll be better.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
It's coming full speed.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
If he misses, heading it through now the minute, we'll know. Man.
If they crash, we'll have to.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Work fast, unless the shock is enough to set the
whole thing off.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Here they come, smells breaking on the bar.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's not slacking spade, and it's too small.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's too small.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
They're in. She's coming through, she's coming through. Chairs. We're
not out of this ship. He's not cunning his SPE's
he's not gonna leave us here. Hold on on. He's
turning between the two boats. You'll get us on one
side and handing it on the other.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Huck captain signaling the bridge person, give a fots fade,
give her everything at that parallel his course.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Where's the gifts wall?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Hang on, we'll pick you up later on.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You heard him old time jewry walk and they got
that line. When it's thrown down, I don't miss here
they are. I'll steady against the bow. Watch person holding alongside.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
All right, here comes the line.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Bak fast, hurry before we lose the snacker, and they
get good and fast. Give to the wortch person.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Hollo, we're fine, brother, just in time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, person, you'd cut the engine. We're under tone.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Man, man, So we ain't gonna sleep on a bed
of colds tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Brother.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I ain't never felt anything so good as the pull
on that line.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
It's funny nuts, full speed, pulling us away fast, maybe
two miles already.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It can't be too fast for me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Just look at that thing. Whether it's an inferno, yes,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
The whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It did blow its top wall. Help the mountain with
a towel, holder in. Grab guys who drury, help me
matter back as far as we can. Then stay down, everybody,
stay down. There's a wave coming, a tidal wave.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Come on, come on, pull all right, get down, everybody
kick down.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
We thought we were saved. It's fifty sixty maybe one
hundred feet. It'll take the whole ship.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Everything, keep down and hang on none.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Here it comes here, it comes.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
We're not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Everybody all right. I don't know how, but we're all right.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Man, had wave that lifted us to the level of
the rail of the Hopi Victory. But a seismic wave
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does not crest an open sea. So it came as
one great smooth swell that lifted as high and passed.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And let us swoop back down again.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
A few minutes later the ship picked us up, and
we all paused to look back at the emblem of
fire we left behind us.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Well, I guess maybe the captain was right. We must
have been in the hands of God. All accept trouble, Yeah,
all accept trouble. Well, looks you wanted to study a
volcano close to.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Did I.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Will remind me to cross that study off my list.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are somewhere in the Pacific, out of Letty in
the Philippines, charting a course of south by southeast, when
out of the deep of the sea a new volcano
is born, and your ship is caught in the middle
of it, from which there is no escape.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Listen now as Escape brings you Vincent mceugh's story The
Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It you would have been an easy trip. It was
the spring of forty five, the war was almost over,
and what few Japs were left that far south didn't
figure to give us any trouble. I was first made
of the Hope by Victory, hauling cargo with the Landings
and the Philippines. But this trip we detoured south to
the Tailee Island of Karazuti and the Malocas to pick
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up a detachment of rangers, a demolition team, and bring
them up to Samar. We cleared for another about eighteen
thirty hours, and his darkness fell. I went out of
there I found Lieutenant Drury the range of CEO and
the stop sergeant watching gam Kamora, the volcano over on
the island.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I'm McCallum eating mate. Quite a sight, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Sure is? But thenver get better.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We passed closer to it after Nati and the dog.
You can see the lava spouting like fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
We got a look at a small one back on
Casuuti inactive. So wle group of violins on both sides
of the strait is volcanic, you're telling.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Me, tryumph Now you can have my share them. That
big baby there used to keep us awake nights rumbling.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They aren't exactly conducing to peace of mind, I'll admit, sergeant,
but they're very interesting. I'd like a chance to study
one more closely. Not for me, Lieutenant, Well, probably won't
get another chance.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Now. The men all comfortable, Sergeant, Well, it ain't the
Queen Mary, sir, but they're okay.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sorry, this baby.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Wasn't meant but troop transplant, no matter. We're used to improvising.
Well night, gentlemen. Nice sharing, nice guy, the best one
of them.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Guys with principles serious, you know, educating them kind usually
get clobbered first thing, but he's come through, bloody. You
have a time back there in not much Jap radio station,
half starved out already. Of course they put up a fight,
they always do.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But not so bad.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Hey, look at that thing Belchian smoke a mile high, flashing.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Like yeah, spectacular.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
All right, Hey, lieutenant, could I could I interest you
in a human scalp tand with mangrove bark got me
a couple of extra back there someone cheap?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh, thanks Sigon. I got one scalp. I hope that'll
last me the rout.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That night, for the first time since we left home,
I couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To sleep, and tried reading a while and gave that
up too.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Finally I got a cup of coffee and took one
up to Hannigan.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
On the bridge.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Hey, thanks Mac, just what I needed.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We sipped our coffee quietly. Bosum stood silently at the wheel.
The time is over four twenty five hours. We were
steaming up through the Maluka passage, of course, one degree
true speed, eighteen knots, a smooth, gentle swell. The phosphorescence
in the bower wash was brightened enough to show hands
and faces.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was peaceful. Hey, mac, ay mac, you smell anything coffee? No,
come here, stand over here.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, little sulfur and something that smells like wet does.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's what I thought too, sir.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Well, couldn't it say?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Isn't there a volcano over there on Helmhera or you
might be getting a little land breeze?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, but we passed it an hour back. I'll take it.
I got them, you guys spitting over the sat up there.
What's the matter, Brian, I just.
Speaker 10 (04:58):
Happened to notice my intake more is heating up very much. Well,
it's supposed to be about twenty five degrees centigrade around here.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's twenty nine. Now we're pulling sludge too.
Speaker 10 (05:08):
Looks like pumas.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Okay, I guess you better call the captain Hagan smell that, captain.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yes, you check the ships to account, Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sir, Boyd and Parman went over to nothing wrong.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Yes, well stop the engines. Yes, mister Hannigan, you check our.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Position, Yes, Captain, it's verified here on the.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Chart sonic depth finder on mister Greene.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Yes, Sir turned it out right away, reads one one.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Four three fables. I'll see here this is where we
are about thirty five miles west of Kumbakia, and how
the hero nautical miles that is? Yes, over here you
see less than three miles northwest. You've got a bigea.
Somebody reported the show there once, hasn't been found again since.
Might be anywhere in the general vicinity. I see here
it's marked eighteen fathoms he the existence stand for reported.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
February eighteen seventy one.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And if there is something there, it can't be anything
but a submarine mountain that we those depths all around him.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Yeah, it's probably volcanic. One of those buggers that push up,
you know, and sink back down again. Got some of
them up in the burnings. But all we've got to
go on is this old captain that came through here
in eighteen seventy one, probably a whaler. Didn't care where
he was so long as he had his foot on
a fish. You think he could have got his bearings
and helm my hair.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I can't tell.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I suppose now here's this old fellow dawdling through here
in February northwest monsoon at its height, fairly good winds
mostly north or western north current sets about two knots
of the wind. So if he's out in his reckoning,
you see, it's probably because he's farther over to the
south of east than he thought like this, that puts
us pretty close to the trouble.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Go up to the southeast, because we don't know how
far art he was.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
If he was out now here, we could go this way,
but it seems foolish to backtack on our course and
then go west to get fair. Don't see why we
wouldn't be safe if we cut across the angle to
the southwest. That sounds right to me, Kevin, Yes, we
should be safe enough.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, let's hope. So it's the Grand Jeans.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Then by the death finder and sing out if again. Initially, yes, sir,
the ship was a donge GQ. The engine stopped the
near the ocean. Silence hung over everything.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
They're still dark, but a soft glimmer was beginning to
show behind the peaks.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And how maham, it's not.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
The engines half speed?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Yes, they're half speed.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The returning pulse of the engines, like a reviving heartbeat,
seemed to bring the ship back to LFE.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
You were about two twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Five our by victory began to gather away, turning the
person got her around, met her and settled on course.
Haddigan stood by the bridge farm for minutes. We stood quietly,
watching and waiting. Now there was a rosy smear in
the east behind us, are glooming on the sea. I
could just make out the bow, and a man silhouetted
in the cross nest a bubble.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Ronnie engine Room says thirty two degrees.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Up, three degrees Yeah, stand the phonness to Hannigan, report
any change. Another few minutes we'll be able to see
a little more.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Captain man in the cross nest. He's waiting.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Tomina reads thirty eight craves rocks that had full left rudder,
full left rudder.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Who we could see it now, not five hundred yards ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Nothing in a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It had ever been so awful as that jagged rocky crest,
hunching and lifting like the back of a great dawn lizard.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
In the yellow light. It came fuming of the seas,
slimy with the first mud of creation. The slow swell
pitched up on it.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
We could fill its deep grumbling roar through the noise
of the engines.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The ship was turning. Now, No one spoke.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We stared with slow understanding of the horror that began
to form in all our minds.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The monster was not a single peak.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The ridge we'd seen coming up in the southwest was
extending itself in a long curve of points and benches
all across.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
The south caper turning, keeper turning.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
But it was already too late.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Clear across the red pink wash of dawn, a black
spur joined under the east, and when we looked north,
the swell was lipping up on a jag of blue
rocket thickened to the west and hooked on down into
the southwest. The happy victory was completely encircled. We were
trapped in the middle of an emerging wall came up.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
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second act of the Boiling Sea.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Took a few seconds for the full impact of the situation,
hits encircle trapped in a crater of jagged rising peaks
on every quarter of the compass. Still nobody said anything
until Captain has It spoke in a quiet voice.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
All right, stop the engine.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Then we all know.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
The wires dropped away, and the hope by victory settled
floating dead, and a fuming, black brown lake that bubbles
like muddy coming to a boiled the terrible stony rumbling
jot up to the soles of my shoes.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Well I got you fellows into this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh no, cap you did the best you could.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
How could anyone know where an unshot at mountain would
come up out of the sea, Hagan.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
I don't want to get you fellas too excited up there,
but you better quit smoking. We're getting sixty eight degrees
centigrade on this thing. Got any anchine went boiled? What
is going on up there?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Brownie?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We're in a volcano.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Well, I always told you something like this would happen.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know, you gotta watch.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You're doing sixty eight degrees integrate, sir, Well Jonah made it.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, we don't know. Maybe there's a hole in it somewhere.
We can wait till it settles down, get the boats out.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Yes, by gully, I mean idea, mister McCallum, If we
do a good job of Savene, maybe they'll forgive us.
Or getting into it in the first place.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No one mentioned the chance that we might never get out.
We lived in the crater of a mountain interruption. We're
still working and thrusting, but its force had began to
die down.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
In the west and southwest.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Its highest peaks through maybe fifty sixty feet above the sea.
In the north and northwest much lower. We could see
the swell breaking over two places.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Sir Hannigan, you will check and recheck the position. Yes, Captain,
it's the Grand Gene. You will take bearings and measurements
of the rim, starting at zero degrees and working all
around the companies. Yes, Karen, you will pass the word
that we're I'm going to try getting out of here
just as soon as the first shark is over. I
don't wanted to think we're not doing anything. Yes, might
let the people down in the engine room now, and
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the gun crew and tell Lieutenant Drury and his rangers.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes him, all right, thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I carried the message to the other officers men were
hanging over the rail looking at the dead fish in
the Pubian water. Everybody was coughing sickly. Gases came up
in spurts and slow blobs. Here and there are small
guys that paddered down stones and mud on the water.
There was a washer gloomy sun on the crags to
the west. Beyond lay the glimmer of the Molucca Passage.
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Like the whole of life itself, it seemed very distant now.
At breakfast, the captain was still cheer.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
All right, gentlemen, we may as well eat. May not
have another chance for a while. What do you think
so well? Looks as if the one is about over.
We get the boats out after breakfast. See if we
can't find a hole in it? Just a western omelet
for me mass. What if we can't do that, maybe
we can find a place to get the boats across,
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isn't father? I'm a hero, You know about thirty six miles,
But I'd hate to wish I knew more about how
these volcanoes behaved. Might sink down again in an hour
or two, or it might keep building up.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Could I make a suggestion, Captain hazard, Yes, go ahead,
Lieutenant Drury, My boys are training demolition.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Word we can find the right place.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I think we might be able to blast a hole
big enough of the ship to get through.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yes, thank you, lieutenant. Yes, we've been thinking the same thing.
Only trouble is a blast like that might set the
whole business off. I suppose we'd better wait till we've
tried everything else.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
First, we take the boats out right after breakfast.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yes, mister McCallum, you will take one and go north
to the rim. Follow it to the east. Mister Hannigan,
we'll take the other south and follow it west. Lieutenant Drury,
A detail of your rangers can go in each boat.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What about communications?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, too bad. We don't have radios in the boats.
We'll have to use flare guns. One flare if you
find a hole big enough for the ship, confirm it
with a handlead then two flares to come on the
usual recall signal. Well, gentlemen, we're in God's hands now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Fifty yards, sir, these are and slowly busting right into
the rocks.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Yes, sir, take a look at that water man, don't
see anything like its slimy gas bubbling up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm very inviting take a look at what's the head, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, it doesn't look like any rock I've ever seen before.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
It's something monstrous, something tortured about it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, all yours, lieutenant, Ready, Sergeant foutah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ready, sir easy.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Boston, alright, aldim steady.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
All right you guys go.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Okay, good now, I hand over with the pigs. Get
specimens of the rock. Bot all you're going up the
top and check.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yes, this doesn't look very promising.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
No, it's only twenty feet high, but we haven't got
enough explosive to blast through. Here must be gap somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
There's vota on top of it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Vota.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Can you see anything about?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
And he breaks to the east and to see any
head town for sure though, All right, come back, we'll
go down farther.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We cruise slowly along the rim through the dirty, brown,
black simmering water, stopping every few hundred yards to break
off specimens of rock. It was hot, We felt as
if our bodies were drenched in a heated grease. The
crater had a general downhill trend to the eastward in
the northeast sectory. It came to what appeared the lowest
point here the swell broke Claire across the shallow pitch.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
This is the best place for blasting we've seen yet.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, it doesn't look bad. It might be possible.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Let me take four of my men on those rocks
and try to find some likely openings for charges, just
in case.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Okay, moving class again, busting listen drawing.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Those rocks are wet and that's swell. There's plenty of power.
Watch yourselves.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Don't worry about us.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Maybe we don't mind wet feet.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Uh huh, center razy busson.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Okay, boys, horever we go. Come on, get the let
out a right man, spring up, look for.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
The cracks all off, Boston, Can you stand by with
the line secured, ready to toss him just in case?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
How about this?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Mate?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Do you think we'll have to try it?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Last? Is that?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I don't know what looks like? Maybe unless Hannigan found
something we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Blasting in this stuff is like letting a fire cracker
on a dynamite factory.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
May have to take the chance.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, yeah, look back there until the ship a dirty
yellow guck. We're going to break out the gas mass
we had, gas man?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What was that an explosion?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Underneath this.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The whole thing's going on sinking.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Look the man they're sinking from the line, los.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
And hurry, hey, dry, grab the line, get your man
on it.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
We'll pull you in. That's it, passing on out of
your hurry.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
All right, the wrong on, Hey, bring him in he
fast as you can.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay, his drawery, get it? Then hurry home on, Come on?
What's hurting the whole things?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Morning? Keep having foot? Where's moto?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I got him right here?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Come on up heat, God of Heaven, keep aligmantic for
all right, here's the next te to be hoisted in
us three? All right, coming easier.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Now let's hang me for Come on, fellow.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Cramp one more trouble man, all right, craig.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So we can get out of here. The line's coming too.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
First trouble, where's trouble?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
White? A little tennant?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Stop him holding drawery.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
You can't trouble us.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Tell him that you can't come back in without a
line tying around.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
His waist wall. I'm going to all right, but tying
to that line then we'll be able to hide you back.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
They went over the side, disappearing into the murk on
the sludgy water.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The shocks were increasing in violence. Now they jared their
teeth and my heads.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We looked toward this ship and saw the western rim
of the crater thrusting up in a great.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Wall behind it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Then Walt's head appeared close to the boat, his face black,
and he shook a hopeless no. He dived again two
or three times, and then let us pull him in.
But Drury wouldn't give up. Come on, pull him in.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
He's fighting us.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We'll fight him back and get himmember this boat. Yes, sir, here,
I'll give you a hat.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
He let me cool. We gotta get the tubble, let
me go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You can't waste any more time. Yeah, it's no use, straw.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
But he's in there somewhere. We can't just let him
stay there. Man, No, no, honey, all right, laws and
take her off.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But I'm sorry if I'm trouble with tenort. But he
is one man. There are a hundred men back there
in the hold by victory. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Sorry, it's getting worse every minute.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'm gonna do anything.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
We gotta do it fair. Hey, look over there with
the rock sank.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That GAP's big enough for the ship. Yeah, maybe, but
is it deep enough?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
It's gotta be the whole thing. Make a one any
minute like a roll of chin.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, Boston fire, one flat. Walt got the hand lead,
I've got it. Who quote, don't have a drag at.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Ten fathoms a quarter across the gap, sing out if
you feel anything. The boat moved slowly across the old
edge of the crater and out into the open sea.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Walt, holding the lead line, shook his head at me.
He felt nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I turned carefully in the swell and carted back into
the crater. I could see the hope by Victory creeping
toward us. She'd recalled hanning It's boat and was dragging
ahead of her in a narrow s curve. They were
like vessels under shelfire. The whole center of the crater
was writhing with smoke and erupting guises of much in stone.
We can see rocks falling on the deck behind the ship.
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The western crags now jet a three hundred feet high,
lifting and working in black aggon.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The ship was coming on fast. We were the last chance.
Do you feel what they want? Nothing? Can they make it?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
They've gotten too fat.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Two flowers and we'll stand out to see him make
a target for him.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Hey, better hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There's things about the blow.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's top all right, here too all sad? What's that here?
You'll never make it.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
A GAP's too small, tight squeeze.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The captain's got it perfectly centered.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I'll be better.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
It's coming full speed.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
If he misses, heading it through now the minute, we'll know. Man.
If they crash, we'll have to.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Work fast, unless the shock is enough to set the
whole thing off.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Here they come, smells breaking on the bar.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's not slacking spade, and it's too small.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's too small.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
They're in. She's coming through, she's coming through. Chairs. We're
not out of this ship. He's not cunning his SPE's
he's not gonna leave us here. Hold on on. He's
turning between the two boats. You'll get us on one
side and handing it on the other.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Huck captain signaling the bridge person, give a fots fade,
give her everything at that parallel his course.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Where's the gifts wall?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Hang on, we'll pick you up later on.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You heard him old time jewry walk and they got
that line. When it's thrown down, I don't miss here
they are. I'll steady against the bow. Watch person holding alongside.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
All right, here comes the line.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Bak fast, hurry before we lose the snacker, and they
get good and fast. Give to the wortch person.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Hollo, we're fine, brother, just in time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, person, you'd cut the engine. We're under tone.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Man, man, So we ain't gonna sleep on a bed
of colds tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Brother.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I ain't never felt anything so good as the pull
on that line.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
It's funny nuts, full speed, pulling us away fast, maybe
two miles already.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It can't be too fast for me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Just look at that thing. Whether it's an inferno, yes,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
The whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It did blow its top wall. Help the mountain with
a towel, holder in. Grab guys who drury, help me
matter back as far as we can. Then stay down, everybody,
stay down. There's a wave coming, a tidal wave.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Come on, come on, pull all right, get down, everybody
kick down.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
We thought we were saved. It's fifty sixty maybe one
hundred feet. It'll take the whole ship.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Everything, keep down and hang on none.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Here it comes here, it comes.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
We're not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Everybody all right. I don't know how, but we're all right.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Man, had wave that lifted us to the level of
the rail of the Hopi Victory. But a seismic wave
(26:06):
does not crest an open sea. So it came as
one great smooth swell that lifted as high and passed.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And let us swoop back down again.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
A few minutes later the ship picked us up, and
we all paused to look back at the emblem of
fire we left behind us.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Well, I guess maybe the captain was right. We must
have been in the hands of God. All accept trouble, Yeah,
all accept trouble. Well, looks you wanted to study a
volcano close to.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Did I.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Will remind me to cross that study off my list.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine,
has brought you The Boiling Sea, a story by Vincent
mcew and adapted for radio by John Duncle. Featured in
the cast were Ted Decrcia, Herb Butterfield, Harry Bartel, Herbellus,
and Tony Barrett. Also heard were Jack Moyles, Clayton Post
and Jim Hayward. You're announcer Bill Anders. The special music
(27:24):
for Escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Next week, you are stranded with a carnival just the
side of the iron culta'in when out of nowhere a
fortune is within your grasp, Riding a number on a
roulette wheel hundreds of feet high. Why at your shoulder,
(27:50):
laughing at you, a killer clown from whom there is
no escape.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
So listen next week when Gate brings you David Friedkin
and Morton Fine Story Carnival in Vienna. Stay tuned now
(28:20):
for Nightwatch, which follows immediately. Over most of these stations,
there's Comedy with My Little Margie Sunday nights on the
CBS Radio Network
Speaker 10 (29:06):
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