Ghosts of the Abyss Page #2

Pilots are gonna be

Genya Chernaiev, "Mir-2,"

Anatoly Sagalevitch, "Mir-1."

PAXTON:

Okay. Here's your checklist.

Have your last will

and testament in order,

make sure your insurance

is paid up,

write a final note

to your family.

These are the kind of things

you think about.

Next stop, "Titanic. "

Happy hunting.

Let's rock and roll.

The moment of truth.

See you in the sunshine.

PAXTON:
To get in

a three-man submersible

and descend 12,500 feet

down into the bottom

of the North Atlantic,

it just was maybe a little more

adventure than I wanted.

Oxygen?

Yeah.

That's good.

Yeah.

Be sure to turn that on.

Yeah, I can see how you get

kind of queasy sitting up here.

Look at the colors change.

[Speaking Russian]

Boy, that's fast.

This tells you the oxygen

up here, right?

Yes.

So it's at 21.

That's good.

Now, if that gets below 19,

then it's...

What's the number

you watch for?

It's 19.

It's good also.

It's good.

Yes.

But if it gets below what?

Does the battery sound okay?

It sounds sluggish like that?

- That's normal?

- Yes, it's normal.

Now, if you have

a real emergency

and everything fails,

I heard something about,

you can disengage,

drop the main battery?

Just...

Yes, we have many possibilities.

I hope we never drop battery,

because it's very expensive.

How much?

It's $250, 000, I think.

I mean, would you take a check?

Yes. 2, 000.

That's pretty deep.

[Rattling]

Something wrong?

It's okay?

Yes.

That's handy.

And it's fixed.

I adjust for them for later.

Oh, okay. Okay.

Good. Yeah.

"Mir-1," "Mir-1,"

this is "Mir-2."

What is your depth?

Over.

"Mir-2," "Mir-2,"

this is "Mir-1."

Depth is 3,353 meters.

See you on the bottom.

Jim out.

I see bottom.

It's bottom.

Oh, yeah.

You see it?

Yeah.

Just barely.

Bottom of the ocean.

Look at that.

Look at that.

It looks like

the dark side of the moon.

PAXTON:

It wasn't just the idea

of putting your faith

in these little submarines

and going to the bottom

of the sea.

There's thousands of tons

of pressure against you.

But where we were going,

where we were going.

We'll see more debris as we go.

There's a piece right there.

Yeah, look. There's some china.

See the china?

Yeah, we got her.

You want to see "Titanic"

on the sonar?

You're gonna love this.

- It's, like, there she is, baby.

- Oh, man.

Okay.

Bill, it's the bow.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, God.

There it is.

What a sight.

What a sight!

So Medusa is lighting it up.

Look at that.

Oh, man.

Oh, now you get a sense

of the size of this thing.

My God!

This was the "Titanic. "

This is the fabled liner

that lies in its grave

at the bottom

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