Bad Water (2)
(seaQuest DSV - Sea Deck)
Bridger: (enters) What happened?
Darwin: Loud light.
Bridger: The lightning.
Levin: It would have been like being inside a bass drum. The concussion would have been deafening.
Darwin: Lucas.
Bridger: You found Lucas.
Darwin: Yes.
Bridger: They're alive. He's blistering, it's the fresh water.
Darwin: Bad water, deep hole, people, lights.
Bridger: You found the French submarine? Where? Where are they? Oooh.
( Sargasso Sea - Life Raft)
Westphalen: How're you doing? I'm pretty scared myself. I think it's OK to be afraid.
Lucas: Well, they're not.
Westphalen: Is that what you think?
Lucas: My hands are shaking.
Westphalen: How can you tell? (hugs Lucas) All right, you'd better get back on with that camera.
Lucas: Yeah.
(French sightseeing submarine)
Teacher: (Claire still sending mayday in French, teacher comes over, in French) I can't keep them calm much longer.
Claire: (in French) You have to, no one knows we're here. Have courage. (returns to mayday in French)
(seaQuest DSV - Hallway, just outside the bridge)
Crocker: WSKR'll be ready to test in a few minutes, Cap.
Bridger: I'll be there. How's the bridge crew?
Crocker: Well, I, uh, I taught them every sea shanty I know. Anything in the conduit system survive the lightning strike?
Bridger: No, they've all melted and fused together. Two million volts. It's a mess…my mess.
Crocker: Permission to talk freely, sir?
Bridger: Sure.
Crocker: You can't blame yourself.
Bridger: I know. At the time it was an acceptable risk.
Crocker: I'm not talking about that, I mean Lucas.
Bridger: He's only sixteen, shouldn't have been aboard that launch.
Crocker: He wanted to help, Captain. Now it would've been wrong to have stopped him. There's no way in the world you could've anticipated all this stuff happening.
Bridger: I can't not think about going to find him. You know how it feels.
Crocker: Yeah, I know, you feel responsible for him. Hell, Cap, you feel responsible for everybody on this boat, but that only goes so far. We all knew the risk.
Bridger: Not Lucas, at his age you don't see the danger.
Crocker: I'd give my life to get those people back, and I know damn well you would too. Well if we just keep our chin up, maybe the Triangle will give us that opportunity.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Hitchcock: We're ready to test it out, sir.
Bridger: (walking over) Who's first?
Hitchcock: Communications.
Bridger: You might wanna stand clear, Mr. O'Neill.
O'Neill: Right, sir. (stands up, screen comes on, O'Neill nods)
Bridger: (happily) Thirty seconds per station.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge, later)
Bridger: You have a weather report for me?
O'Neill: Caught a fragment of the WSKRS antenna. Hurricane Sheila's on category three, winds topping one fourteen, moving northwest at thirty-five miles per hour.
Hitchcock: Time's up, Mr. Ortiz.
Ortiz: Wait a minute. Sinkhole profile, sir.
Bridger: Put Mr. Ortiz on the center screen.
Ortiz: WSKR tethered at six hundred yards, switching to phased-array view. Elevating WSKR.
Crocker: Look at all those sinkholes, Cap.
Bridger: Fresh water readings?
Ortiz: None, sir, but I've only analyzed the first two sinkholes. The others are beyond range.
Bridger: I can't afford to cut the last WSKR loose. We'll have to move the seaQuest from hole to hole.
O'Neill: With only one screen up at a time, sir?
Hitchcock: Captain, that could take days.
Bridger: No, it's only gonna take two hours, because after that, those kids run out of air.
( Sargasso Sea - Life Raft)
Westphalen: (bailing water) We haven't even seen the worst of it yet.
Krieg: Kristin, I'm sorry.
Westphalen: I knew it. I knew you ate those lobsters.
Krieg: I didn't know they were an experiment.
Westphalen: What else would they be for?
Krieg: They were in the galley refrigerator.
Westphalen: To slow their metabolism, not to eat. Were they good?
Krieg: Yeah. (Westphalen laughs)
Lucas: I got it. It works.
Ford: Great. (grabs camera and presses the button.)
Krieg: M … R … seven.
Westphalen: Morse code, that is brilliant.
Lucas: Do you think they'll hear us?
Ford: It's a long shot, but it's a shot. (puts camera in water)
(French sightseeing submarine)
(A teacher comforts kids, then gets up and opens last oxygen container)
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Hitchcock: (O'Neill speaking French into radio) Time's up.
Bridger: Anything?
O'Neill: No, sir.
Bridger: Upstairs?
O'Neill: The last search planes returned to Florida, low on fuel.
Ortiz: Another fresh water sink hole, Captain.
Bridger: Topographical map, Mr. Ortiz.
Ortiz: Switching from sonar to phased-array. WSKR approaching sinkhole rim, getting heave, reeling out tether, descending, approaching bottom. Tether locked at four hundred twelve feet. That's no French sub.
Hitchcock: What is that?
Ortiz: It looks like a locomotive.
Carlton: That's impossible.
Crocker: Not really. Probably fell off a cargo ship during a storm a hundred years ago.
Bridger: All that iron's screwing up our magnetic readings. You better bring that WSKR back in, Mr. Ortiz, we'll come back another time. Four fresh water sinkholes on the same axis, running north along the continental shelf of Florida. (looks at level) Come port side until I say stop.
Carlton: How will you know, sir?
Bridger: I'll just feel it, Mr. Carlton.
Carlton: Coming port, aye.
Crocker: Just like the old days, huh, Cap?
Bridger: Yeah. Stop.
Carlton: Stopping, aye.
Bridger: A little bit more.
Carlton: A little bit more, aye.
Bridger: Maintain that heading. Sniff me out some fresh water, Mr. Ortiz. (opens tank) Well, good to see you. Put on the vo-chorder.
Hitchcock: Aye, sir.
Bridger: We're looking for the submarine.
Darwin: Light in bad water hole.
Bridger: Do you remember where that was?
Darwin: Near sand, sand move.
Bridger: (thinking) Sand move … landslide!
Darwin: Near landslide.
Bridger: Mr. Ortiz?
Ortiz: Gulf Stream's scrubbed the bottom as flat as a parking lot sir, but there is a canyon two kilometers dead ahead. Right where you were taking us.
Bridger: Increase speed by one half. Look for a landslide on the edge of that canyon. That's where you'll find our sinkhole.
( Sargasso Sea - Life Raft)
Westphalen: Keep bailing.
Ford: The batteries are dying. Do we have any spares?
Lucas: No.
Westphalen: Commander, we are getting swamped. Any suggestions?
Ford: The raft will float, we won't sink. (gasps) Inflate your vests, Lucas. (wave hits raft)
Krieg: You all right?
Lucas: Yeah.
Krieg: Where's Ford?
Westphalen: Oh my God!
Krieg: Hang on to me. (leans out, pulls Ford in)
Ford: (looks at rope) Nice idea.
(Teacher singing to children, hears big noise)
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Ortiz: Got 'em, sir, grappling magnet in place.
Bridger: Put Mr. O'Neill on line.
O'Neill: They're alive, sir. (everyone claps)
Levin: Hey, hey. I need an immediate acoustic sounding. Captain, the cavern area is huge. If the ceiling collapses under our weight, we'll be completely engulfed in fresh water.
Hitchcock: We have to get off the bottom, Captain.
Bridger: No 'till Mr. Ortiz is ready.
Ortiz: We're heavy as it is sir, hooking up to their sub will only make it worse.
Bridger: We've got to pump out all those ballast tanks, one at a time. No forward thrust until that submarine is out of the sinkhole.
Levin: Limestone's cracking.
Bridger: Mr. Ortiz?
Ortiz: One more hook to go.
Levin: You do know where that debris is falling, don't you? (everyone on French sub is panicking)
Ortiz: French sub's secure.
Bridger: Pop out ballast.
Hitchcock: Ballast gone.
Crocker: Negative lift, sir, we're still heavy.
Carlton: We're frozen, sir.
Levin: Ceiling's collapsing.
Ortiz: Should I cut them free?
Bridger: (thinks) No. Wait, flood ballast.
Hitchcock: Sir?
Crocker: Cap, that'll just make us heavier.
Bridger: That's right. Excuse me. (sits down) Now, if we can collapse the ceiling that we're on, large enough chunks will fall in and the salt water will rush in to replace it.
Levin: It'll dissipate.
Hitchcock: But it could give us momentary buoyancy.
Bridger: And if we empty the ballasts at the same time, the salt water will give us a bounce, like a trampoline.
Hitchcock: Flooding all tanks. Here we go. (ships rocks)
Bridger: Pump ballasts, now.
Hitchcock: Away. (ship lifts)
Ortiz: Forty feet off the bottom, fifty feet, seventy, a hundred, three hundred fifty feet. She's clear, Captain, the French sub is clear.
Bridger: All ahead full.
Carlton: Aye, sir.
O'Neill: (talks to French sub in French, everyone on the French sub cheers, everyone on seaQuest cheers) I need quiet in here. Be quiet! We're rising into the sound channel. I'm picking up a signal, faint, but clear. (noise over loudspeaker)
Bridger: M … R … seven.
( Sargasso Sea - Life Raft)
Ford: That's it, batteries are dead.
Westphalen: I can hear something.
Lucas: I can hear it too.
Westphalen: Ben, wake up.
Lucas: (looks over the side of the raft) SeaQuest, it's the seaQuest!
(They all laugh and cheer excitedly.)