Unknown Broadcast | The Boiling Sea: An Undersea Volcano Traps a Wartime Cargo Ship in the Pacific

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Ah, happy to see you back. Glad you didn't mind fiddling with that

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radio knob of yours until you could
find me. I know, I know,

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I wish I could broadcast in the
same place every night, but some

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things are beyond my control. My
dear, what's that? What's that?

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Oh? No, no, no, everything's good here what what? Oh?

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Oh my goodness, yes, oh
yes, that's the reason I have

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that painting up there the specifically for
that reason. You're very observing. I

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appreciate you. Tonight we're going on
the high seat because well, I don't

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get out as much as i'd like, so a little escape here and there

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can go a long way. So
get comfortable. Your tea is almost ready,

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and let's listen together together to this
one, this one right now.

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Tired of the every day grind,
have a dream of a life of romantic

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adventure. I want to get away
from it all. We offer you escape,

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escape designed to free you from the
four walls of today for a half

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hour of high adventure. You are
somewhere in the Pacific, out of Lady

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in the Philippines, a course of
south by southeast went out of the deep

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of the sea. A new volcano
was born and your ship is caught in

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the middle of it, from which
there is no escape. Listen now as

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escape brings you, Vincent McHugh Storry
the boiling Sea. You would have been

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an easy trip. It was the
spring of forty five. The war was

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almost over, and what few Japs
were left that far south didn't figure to

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give us any trouble. I was
first made of the hope by Victory hauling

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cargo with the Landings and the Philippines. But this trip we detoured south to

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the Tailee Island of Karazuti and the
Malucas to pick up a detachment of Range

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as a demolition team and bring them
up to Samar. We cleared for another

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about eighteen thirty hours, and his
darkness fell. I went out on deck.

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There I found Lieutenant Drury, the
Ranger CEO, and he stopped sergeant

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watching gam Kamura the volcano over on
the island. I'm McCallum eating mate.

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Quite a sight, isn't it?
Sure it is? But then'll get better.

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We passed closer to it after Nati
and the dark you can see the

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lava spouting. Like fourth of July. We got a look at a small

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one back on Kazuuti inactive. Sole
group of violands on both sides of the

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strait is volcanic eelling Trent. Now
you can have my share them. That

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big baby there used to keep us
awake nights rumbling, and they aren't exactly

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conducing to peace of mind, I'll
admit, sergeant, but they're very interesting.

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I'd like a chance to study one
more closely. Not for me,

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well, probably won't get another chance. Now. The men all comfortable,

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sergeant. Well it ain't the Queen
Mary, sir, but they're okay.

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Sorry, this baby wasn't meant for
troop transplant, no matter. We're used

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to improvising. Well night, gentlemen. Nice sharing, nice guy, the

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best one of them, guys with
principles, serious, you know, educating

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them kind usually get clovered first thing. But he's come through Blundy. You

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have a time back there on cas
Not much Jap radio station, half starved

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out already. Of course they put
up a fight, they always do,

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but not so bad. Hey,
look at that thing Belchian smoke a mile

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high, flashing like yeah, spectacular. All right, Hey, lieutenant,

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could I could I interest you in
a human scalp tand with mangrove bark got

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me a couple of extra back there
gentone cheaps. Oh thanks Sagan, I

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got one scalp. I hope that'll
ast me the run. That night,

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for the first time since we left
home, I couldn't get to sleep,

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and tried reading a while and gave
that up too. Finally I got a

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cup of coffee and took one up
to Hannigan on the bridge. Hey,

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thanks Mac, just what I needed. We sipped our coffee quietly. Bosum

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stood silently at the wheel. The
time is over four twenty five hours.

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We were steaming up through the Maluka
passage, of course, one degree true

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speed, eighteen knots, the smooth, gentle swell. The phosphorescence in the

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bower wash was brightened enough to show
our hands and faces. It was peaceful.

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Hey Mac, a Mac, you
smell anything? Coffee? Come here?

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Stand over here? Yeah, little
sulfur and something that smells like wet

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dust. That's what I thought too, sir, Well, couldn't it say?

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Isn't there a volcano over there in
hal Mahara? Or you might be

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getting a little land breeze? Yeah, but we've passed it an hour back.

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I'll take it. I got him. You guys spitting over the sat

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up there. What's the matter,
bron I just happened to notice my intake

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water is heating up very much.
Well, it's supposed to be about twenty

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five degrees centigrade around here. It's
twenty nine. Now we're pulling sludge too.

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Looks like pumus. Okay, I
guess you better call the captain Hannigan.

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Smell lad captain, Yes, you
check the ship, mister the count.

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Yes, Sir Boyd and Parman went
over to nothing wrong, Yes,

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well stop the engines. Yes,
he's a Hannigan. You check our position,

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yes, Captain, it is verified
here on the chart depth finder on

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mister Grengjene. Yes, turned it
out right away, reads one, one,

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four or three fathoms. I see
here. This is where we are,

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about thirty five miles west of Gombaki. And how my hero nautical miles?

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That is? Yes, over here
you see less than three miles northwest.

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You've got a Fijia. Somebody reported
the show there once hasn't been found

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again since, might be anywhere in
the general vicinity. I see here it's

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marked eighteen fathoms. The existence stamp
from reported February eighteen seventy one. But

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if there is something there, it
can't be anything but a submarine mountain that

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well, it's depths all around him. Yeah, it's probably volcanic. One

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of those buggers that push up,
you know, and sink back down again.

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Got some of them up in the
Bonnies. But all we've got to

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go on is this old captain that
came through here in eighteen seventy one,

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probably a whaler. Didn't care where
he was so long as he had his

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foot down a fish. I think
he could have got his bearings in hel

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my hair. You can't tell.
I suppose. Now here's this old fellow

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dawdling through here in February, northwest
monsoon at its height, fairly good winds,

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mostly north for western north current sets
about two knots of the wind.

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So if he's out in his rckoning, you see, it's probably because he's

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farther over to the south and east
than he thought. Like this, that

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puts us pretty close to the trouble. We can't go up to the southeast

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because we don't know how far art
he was. If he was out now

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here, we could go this way, but it seems foolish to backtack on

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our course. We don't go west
to get clear. Don't see why we

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wouldn't be safe if we cut across
the angle to the south west. That

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sounds right to me, Kevin,
Yes, we should be safe enough.

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Well, let's hope so it's the
Grand Jeans. Then by the deathfinder and

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sing out if again. Initially,
yes, sir, the ship was a

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donge GQ. The engine stopped the
near the ocean silence hung over everything.

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They're still dark, but the soft
glimmer was beginning to show behind the peaks.

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And how maham not the engines half
speed? Yes, their half speed.

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The returning pulse of the engines,
like a reviving heartbeat, seemed to

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bring the ship back to life.
You were about two twenty five twenty five

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up by Victory began to gather away, turning the person got her around,

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met her and settled on course.
Haddigan stood by the bridge farm for minutes.

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We stood quietly, watching and waiting. Now there was a rosy smear

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in the east behind us at gloaming
on the sea. I could just make

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out the bow and a man silhouetted
in the cross nester bubble. Right,

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Brownie engine room, says thirty two
degrees. Cegrate happen up three degrees?

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Yeah, stand the phone, mister
Hanigan. Report any changed. Another few

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minutes, we'll be able to see
a little more. Captain man in the

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cross nest. He's waiting. Captain
Tomna reached thirty eight crads, rocks that

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had full left rudder, full left
rudder. Oh, we could see it

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now, not five hundred yards ahead. Nothing in a nightmare. It had

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ever been so awful as that jagged
rocky crest, hunching and lifting like the

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back of a great dawn lizard in
the yellow light. It came fuming out

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of the seas, slimy with a
first mud of creation. The slow swell

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pitched up on it. We could
fill its deep grumbling roar through the noise

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of the engines. The ship was
turning now. No one spoke. We

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stared with slow understanding of the horror
that began to form in all our minds.

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The monster was not a single peak. The ridge we'd seen coming up

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in the southwest was extending itself in
a long curve of points and benches all

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across the south, caper turning,
caper turning. But it was already too

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late. Clear across the red pink
wash of dawn, a black spur joined

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under the east, and when we
looked north, the swell was slipping up

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on a jag of blue rocket thickened
to the west and hooked on down into

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the southwest. The Hapey Victory was
completely encircled. We were trapped in the

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middle of an You are listening to
the Boiling Seed tonight's presentation of escape.

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Keep the family intact this holiday weekend
by driving safely, observe speed laws,

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stay on your side of the road, and don't try to save time at

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the risk of losing a lifetime.
Driving's more relaxed, more fun that way,

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and safer too. And now back
to escape And the second act of

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the Boiling Sea. Took a few
seconds for the full impact of the situation

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to hit us, and circled trapped
in a crater of jagged rising peaks on

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every quarter of the compass. Still
nobody said anything until Captain has It spoke

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in a quiet voice, all right, stop the engine. Then we all

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know there dropped away, and the
hope By Victory settled floating dead and a

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fuming black brown lake that bubbles like
muddy coming to a boiled the terrible stony

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rumbling jot up to the soles of
my shoes. Well I got you Fellas

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into this. Oh no, cap
you did the best you could. How

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could anyone know where an unshot at
mountain would come up out of the sea,

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Hagan, I don't want to get
you Fellas too excited up there,

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but your better quit smoking. We're
getting sixty eight restegrate on this thing.

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Got any ancient went boiled? What
is going on up there? Brownie?

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We're in a volcano? Well,
I always told you something like this.

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What happened? You know? You
gotta watch what you're doing. Sixty eight

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degrees integrate, sir, Well Jonah
made it. Yeah, we don't know.

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Maybe there's a hole in it somewhere. We can wait till it settles

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down. Get the boats out,
Yes, by Gully, I mean I

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did, Miss McCallum. If we
do a good job of sylvene, maybe

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they'll forgive us. Or getting you
do it in the first place. No

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one mentioned the chance that we might
never get out. We lived in the

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crater of a mountain interruption. We're
still working and thrusting, but its force

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had began to die down in the
west and southwest its highest peak from maybe

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fifty sixty feet above the sea.
In the north and northwest much lower.

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We could see the swell breaking over
it in places. Sir Hanigan, you

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will check and recheck the position.
Yes, Captain, it's the grand gene.

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You will take bearings and measurements of
the rim, starting at zero degrees

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and working all around the companys.
Yes, mister McCallum, you will pass

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the word that we're going to try
getting out of here just as soon as

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the first shark is over. I
don't want them to think we're not doing

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anything. Yes, might let the
people down in the engine room no,

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and the gun crew and tell Lieutenant
Drury and his rangers. Yes, all

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right, thank you, gentlemen.
I carried the message to the other officers.

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Men were hanging over the rail looking
at the dead fish in the pubrid

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water. Everybody was coughing sickly.
Gases came up in spurts and slow blobs

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here and there are small guys that
paddered down stones and mud on the water.

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There was a washer gloomy sun on
the crags to the west. Beyond

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lay the glimmer of the Molucca passag
like I hope my life itself seemed very

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distant now at breakfast, the captain
was still checked. All right, gentlemen,

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we may as well eat. May
not have another chance for a while.

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What do you think so well?
Look as if the first one is

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about over, we get the boats
out after breakfast. See if we can't

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find a hole in it, just
a western omelet for me, mats.

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What if we can't do that,
sir, Maybe we can find a place

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to get the boats across, isn't
father, I'm a hero, you know

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about thirty six miles, But I'd
hate to wish I knew more about how

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these volcanoes behave might sink down again
in an hour or two, or it

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might keep building up. Could I
make a suggestion, Captain Hazard, Yes,

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go ahead, Lieutenant Drury. My
boys are training demolition work. We

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can find the right place. I
think we might be able to blast a

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hole big enough of the ship to
get through. Yes, thank you,

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Lieutenant. Yes, we've been thinking
the same thing. Only trouble is a

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blast like that might set the whole
business off. I suppose we'd better wait

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till we've tried everything else first.
We take the boats out right after breakfast.

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Yes, mister McCallum, you will
take one and go north to the

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rim, follow it to the east. Mister Hannigan will take the other south

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and follow it west. Lieutenant Drury, a detail of your rangers can go

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in each boat. What about communications? Too bad? We don't have radios

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in the boats. We'll have to
use flare guns. One flare if you

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find a hole big enough for the
ship, confirm it with a handlet,

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then two flares to command the usual
recall signal. Yes, well, gentlemen,

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we're in God's hands now. Fifty
yard, sir, is a Boston

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right into the rocks? Yes,
sir, take a look at that water

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man, never seeing anything like its
slimy gas bubbling up. I'm very inviting.

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Take a look at what's the head
lets on him? Yeah, it

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doesn't look like any rock I've ever
seen before. It's something monstrous, something

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tortured about it. Yeah, are
yours? Looks at him? Ready?

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Side you? Fatas a Boston?
All right? All that steady? All

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right you guys, Okay, good
now, hand over the pigs. Get

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specimens of the rock. Tall you're
going up the top and check. Yes,

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This doesn't look very promising. No, it's only twenty feet high,

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but we haven't got enough explosive to
blast through. Here must be gap somewhere.

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There's fota on top of it.
Vota, can you see anything about?

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And he breaks to the east and
see any head? Talk for sure

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though, All right, come back, we'll go down farther. We cruise

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slowly along the rim through the dirty, brown, black simmering water, stopping

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every few hundred yards to break off
specimens of rock. Throw was hot.

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We felt as if our bodies were
drenched in the heated grease. The crater

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had a general downhill trend to the
east in the northeast sectory. It came

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to what appeared the lowest point here
the swell broke. They're across the shadow

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peach. This is the best place
for blasting we've seen yet. Yeah,

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it doesn't look bad. It might
be possible. Let me take four of

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my men on those rocks and try
to find some likely openings for charges just

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in case. Okay, moving class
again, Boston. Listen, Drury,

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those rocks are wet, and that's
swell as plenty of power. Watch yourselves.

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Don't worry about us. Maybe we
don't mind wet feet. Uh huh,

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cerrazy Boston. Okay, boys over
we go, come on, get

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the let out right, Ben,
string up, look for cracks. All

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off, Boston. Can you stand
by with a line secured, ready to

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toss him just in case? How
about this night? I think we'll have

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to try it last result. I
don't know what looks like. Maybe unless

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Hannigan found something we shouldn't. I
don't know. Blasting in this stuff is

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like letting a fire cracker on a
dynamite factory. You may have to take

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the chance. Yeah, yeah,
look back there toil the ship a dirty

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yellow gut. We're gonna break out
the gas mess we had gas man,

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sat an explosion, sir, underneath
us. The whole thing's going on,

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sinking, love the man. They're
sinking, dram The line goes from hurry,

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head drawing, grab the line gets
you, then on it. We'll

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pull you in. That's it,
passing on out of your hurry all right,

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the roll on, Hey, bring
him in he ass as you can.

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Okay, here's drawelry, get a
man, hurry, come on,

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come on? What's happy? The
whole things morning? Keep having boot?

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Where's Moto? Got him right?
Here, come on up het God Heaven

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keep promig magic for all right.
Here's the next wat to be hoisting us

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three here, all right, it's
coming easier. Now here's another. Let's

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hangle, poor, come on full
the cramp. One more from all right,

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quick, so we can get out
of here. The line's coming too.

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First, trouble, where's trouble,
white little tan and stop him water

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hold of drewery. You can't treble
us. Tell him that you can't come

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back here without a line tying around
his waist wall. I'll go up to

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him, all right, but ty
into that line. Then we'll be able

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to hold you back. They went
over the side, disappearing into the murk

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on the sludgey water. The shocks
were increasing in violence. Now they dried

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their teeth and my heads. We
looked toward this ship and saw the western

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rim of the crater thrusting up in
a great wall behind it. Then Walt's

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head appeared close to the boat,
his face black, and he shook a

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hopeless no. He dived again two
or three times, and then let us

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pull him in. But Drury wouldn't
give up. Come on, pull him

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in. He's fighting you well fight
him back and get him remember this boat.

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Yes, sir, here, I'll
give you a hat. He let

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me cold. We've got to get
the pubble, let me go. You

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can't waste any more time. Yah, it's no use drawer, and he's

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in there somewhere. We can't just
let him stay there. Man, No,

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no, all right, laws and
take her off. But column,

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I'm sorry about trouble with Tenor,
But he's one man. There are a

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hundred men back there in the whole
five victory. Yeah, I'm sorry.

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It's getting worse every minute. We
gonna do anything. We gotta do it

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fair. Hey, look over there
with the rock sank. That GAP's big

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enough for the ship. Yeah,
maybe, but it's it deep enough.

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It's gotta be. The whole thing
may go up any minute like a Roman

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chin. All right, Boston,
file one flat, walt, get the

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hand lead, I've got it,
whole coil. Don't have a drag.

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At ten fathoms were quarter across the
gap. Sing out if you feel anything.

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The boat moved slowly across the old
edge of the crater and out into

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the open sea wall. Holding the
lead line. Shook his head and he

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felt nothing. I turned carefully in
the swell, and a corded back into

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the crater. I could see the
Hope by Victory creeping tordous. She'd recall

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handing its boat, and it was
dragging ahead of her in a narrow s

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curve. They were like vessels under
the shelfire. The whole center of the

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cradle was writhing with smoke and erupting
guys as a mutt and stone. We

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could see rocks falling on the deck
behind the ship. The western crags now

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jetted three hundred feet high, lifting
and working in black aggon. The ship

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was coming on fast. Were the
last chance? Do you feel how they

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wants nothing? Can they make it? So? They've gone too fare two

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flowers and we'll stand out to sea
and make a target for him. Hey,

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better hurry, this thing's about to
blow its top. All right,

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are two boss? And what's that
here? You'll never make it had gaps

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till small, a tight squeeze.
The captain's got it perfectly centered. Yeah,

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it'll be better. It's come at
full speed. If he misses heading

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it through now the minute, we'll
know. Man. If they crash,

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we'll have to work fast. The
shock is enough to send the whole thing

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off they calmly smells breaking on the
bar. It's not slacking spade, and

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it's too small, it's too small. They're in. She's coming through.

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She's coming through. Chairs. We're
not out of the ship. He's not

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cutting his speed, he's he's not
gonna leave us here. Hold on.

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He's turning between the two boats.
You'll get us on one side and handing

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it on the other. Captain signaling
the bridge person, give a foots fade,

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give her everything at got parallel his
course. Where's the gift wall?

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And hang on, we'll pick you
up later. You heard them more time,

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durry walk, But they got that
line. When it's thrown down,

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I don't miss here. They are
bo't steady against the bow, wished person

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holding alongside. All right, here
comes the line, got it bad fast,

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hurry before we lose the snacking,
and I get goodn't fast go to

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the words bosson hollow red. We're
fine, brother, just in time.

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All right, boss, you got
the engine. We're under tone man man,

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so we ain't gonna sleep on a
bet of colds tonight. Brother.

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I ain't never felt anything so good
as the pull on that line. It's

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funny nuts, full speed pulling us
away fast, maybe two miles already.

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It can't be too fast for me. Just look at that thing. Well

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it's an inferno, yes, sure, look all of it, the whole

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thing. It did blow its top
wall. Help the person with a tiller

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holder in. Grab the guys who
ob dwelry, help me matter back as

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far as we can. Then stay
down, everybody, stay down. There's

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a wave coming, a tidal wave. Look at it. Come on,

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come on, poll all right,
get down. Everybody kick down. We

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thought we were saved fifty sixty maybe
one hundred feet, and take the whole

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ship. Everything, keep down and
hang on none here it comes here,

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it comes? What not? Everybody? All right? I don't know how.

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We're all right. That wave had
lifted us to the level of the

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rail of the HOPEI victory. But
a seismic wave does not crest an open

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sea. So it came as one
great smooth swell that lifted as high and

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passed and let us swoop back down
again. A few minutes later, the

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ship picked us up, and we
all paused to look back at the emblem

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of fire we left behind us.
Well, I guess maybe the captain was

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right. We must have been in
the hands of God. All accept trouble?

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Yeah, all accept trouble. Well, look Hennant. You wanted to

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study a volcano close to did?
I will remind me vo to cross that

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study off my list. Escape,
produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton

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Fine, has brought you The Boiling
Sea, a story by Vincent McHugh and

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adapted for radio by John Duncle.
Featured in the cast were Ted Decrcia,

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Herb Butterfield, Harry Bartel, Herbellas
and Tony Barrett. Also heard were Jack

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Moyles, Clayton Post and Jim Hayward. You're announcer Bill Anders. The special

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music for Escape is composed and conducted
by Leith Stevens. Next week, you

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are stranded with a carnival just the
side of the iron curtain went out of

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nowhere. A fortune is within your
grasp, riding a number on a roulette

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wheel hundreds of feet high. Why
at your shoulder, laughing at you,

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a killer clown from whom there is
no escape. So listen next week when

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Escape brings you David Friedkin and Morton
Fine story Carnival in Vienna. Stay tuned

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now for Nightwatch, which follows immediately
over most of these stations. There's comedy

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with My Little Margie Sunday nights on
the CBS Radio Network. Now that or

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some adventure I could definitely use on
a cold and lonely night like this.

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What about you? What about you? Did you enjoy it? Enjoy?

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Are you enjoying these stories I share? I assume you are because you you

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well, you keep coming back night
after night after night. But of course

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I keep showing up night after night, broadcasting to yourself. I guess we

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are two peas in a pod,
as it were. Well, if you

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want to let me know what you
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where I am. Anyway, my
dear, it's time for you to get

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to your cozy, warm bed,
and it's time for me too. Well

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go back to wherever it is I
came from until tomorrow, Have a good

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night, and appreciate what you hang
your rumbling, rumbling, lying, pregnant