Phantom Page #4

- Stand by to launch countermeasures.

- MAN:
Aye, sir. Standing by.

- Countermeasures loaded.

- Sonar, one ping for range. Mark.

(PING SOUNDING)

(LOW PING ECHOING)

Con, sonar. Submerged contact,

bearing zero-six- zero,

12,000 meters at 30 knots.

Must be a Skipjack fast attack.

Americans, always with

their snouts in the trough.

All ahead one-third,

left full rudder, emergency deep.

Make your depth 160 meters. Report

when we've reached the thermocline.

Emergency dive. Twenty degrees down

on the forward dive planes.

- MAN (O VER RADIO): Emergency dive...

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Release countermeasures.

- MAN 1:
Countermeasures, aye.

- MAN 2:
Firing.

(DEMI SIGHING)

Noisemakers blind the Americans,

but they blind us, too.

Captain, entering the thermocline.

PAVLO V:
The temperature inversion

reflects American sonar,

- so they won't be able to hear us.

- Won't they follow us?

They'll pick a bearing and make a guess.

Their chances are one in 360.

Old submariner trick.

BRUNl:
Your father was Nikolai Zubov.

Commanded the 1 st Submarine

Brigade of the Baltic Fleet.

That's right.

- Make your heading one-seven-five.

- One-seven-five. Aye, sir.

This man's father wrote

the book on submarine warfare.

- MAN:
One-seven-five.

- PAVLOV:
The legacy of

the captain's family is very

well known throughout the Navy.

Awarded a "Hero of the Soviet Union"

for sinking

the Kriegsmarine ship, Goya,

during the war. Do I have that right?

Gentlemen,

we're in the middle of operations.

He was decorated, yeah.

Sent 6,000 miserable Wehrmacht

and Nazi sympathizers

to the bottom of Gdansk Bay.

If the acorn doesn't

fall too far from the tree,

our captain should be able

to dodge a Yank sub or two.

Port and starboard motors, all stop.

Silent motor ahead, standard.

- MAN 1:
Port and starboard motors stop.

- Make your course one-two-zero.

- MAN 1:
Silent motor ahead.

- MAN 2:
One-two-zero. Aye, sir.

(BUTTON BEEPING)

From Squadron Commander

Vladimir Markov:

"To the crew of B-67: Proceed south

to patrol box Lima-Foxtrot

and monitor American Naval activities.

When conditions permit, commence

system testing of classified equipment

for operational readiness,

maintaining alert status.

Returning to Rybachiy

on or about June 6th. "

- This is the executive officer.

- (LOW MUTTERS)

(BEEPING)

Greg, you may post the orders

in the enlisted men's mess.

Aye, sir.

(DOOR SLIDING OPEN, CLOSED)

What conditions?

(CHIRPING)

Simulate hydrogen leak,

battery compartment one.

Hydrogen leak, battery deck one.

This is a drill.

Simulate flooding in compartments

13 and 14.

- (BELL RINGING)

- Flooding in compartments 13 and 14.

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