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We chose the "Ares"

for the giant A-frame at her stern.

Its massive hydraulic cylinders

can lift the sub off the deck

and out over the water with ease.

It's one of the safest ways

to launch a large payload off of any ship,

and we constantly tested our procedures

until we had everything dialed in

for the upcoming four-sub dive.

All right, let's do this,

All stations, let's do this,

I'm gonna need everybody

to keep their ears open, be observant,

Keep your eyes open

for the lights of the other submersibles,

And, you know, it's gonna be challenging,

But I think we can pull it off,

All right, here we go,

Jacks up!

Finally, everything was in motion.

And in the middle of the North Atlantic,

a thousand miles from the nearest land,

our little expedition

was about to make history.

We're in motion,

We're in motion,

Nice and slow, blue winch,

Nice and slow,

- Now we're gunnin' runnin', huh?

- Yeah,

At least, that was the plan.

All stop, all stop, All stop,

I copy you, Lima Charlie.

The only problem we have right now

is the A-frame. Over.

I'll let you know

as soon as the crew gets it sorted.

About an hour and 15 minutes

ago, we had a safety stop,

Uh, what we know

is the A-frame went south,

It's a complete breakdown of the cylinder,

It ultimately amounts to a cold stop,

These bolts all shot,

And all this paint that's been here forever

busts loose because of that situation,

And it happened on that one as well,

Yeah, right, I mean, we're in the

middle of the ocean with a broken A-frame,

That's what it sounds like to me,

How you gonna get that fixed up?

Call A-frames"R"Us? You know,

have their little service ship come by?

Thousand miles from shore?

We don't have to move on it immediately,

but it's at least something

we need to start processing,

Well, I mean,

if they can't fix this,

and we don't have an alternate way

of launching the sub, it's over,

the expedition's over,

If you are going to explore,

you have to accept the fact

that on the one hand there's risk.

You have to stay up all night long

thinking about every single factor

that's involved in what you're doing,

and making sure that

you've thought of everything.

'Cause if you can eliminate

all the things you can think of,

you've eliminated nine-tenths

of what can go wrong,

That way, when that last one-tenth

pops up, and you're in the middle of it,

you don't have to worry about all the

other stuff 'cause you've dealt with that,

Look, to be completely serious, your idea

about cutting that bulwark away at the side

is the best idea I've heard

for an alternate plan yet,

Just cut the side right out of the ship,

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