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[Sonar Pinging ]
Sixty knots? No way, Barnes. The Reds don't have anything that fast.
Checked it twice. I mean, it's a real unique signature--
no cavitation, no reactor noise.
It doesn't even sound like screws.
-[Turns Up Volume ] - [ Hum Resonating ]
What the hell is it?
I'll tell you what it's not. It's not one of ours.
Sir, contact changing to heading 2-1-4,
Speed:
eighty knots.
Eighty knots,
Still diving, Depth, 900--
Still diving. Depth, 900 feet.
Port clearance, 1 50 feet from the cliffwall, sir.
- It's getting tight in here. - Yeah?
We can still give 'em a haircut.
Helm, come right to 0-6-niner, down five degrees.
Coming right 0-6-niner, down fve degrees, aye,
Port side clearance, 1 20 feet. Narrowing to 75.
-[Alarm Beeping] -Sir, we have a proximity warning light.
It's too damn close. We gotta back off.
[Barnes ] Sir, range to contact, 200,
Contact just jinked to bearing 2-6-0 and accelerated to--
to 1 30 knots, sir.
Nothin' goes 1 30.
Sir, range to contact, 1 00 yards.
Eightyyards, sir !
Sixty!
It's turbulence. We're in its wake.
Helm, all stop. Full right rudder.
Hydraulics failure. Planes not responding, sir.
Hydraulics restored, sir.
Oh, my God.
- [ Grunts ] - [ Man Shouting ]
Collision alarm! Collision alarm!
Fire control to sonar!
Let's get out ofhere!
- Lighten her up, Charlie! - Torpedo room is flooded, sir!
Blow all tanks! Blow all the tanks! Blow everything!
- All back full! - Answering. All back full.
Give me a damage report. What's our depth?
[Hull Scraping Sides ]
Passing 1,400, sir.
Main's forward tanks are ruptured!
Still descending, sir,
1,450.
Passing 1,500, sir.
Still descending,
We're too deep to pump auxiliary.
- Passing 1,650, Still descending, sir, - We're losin' her.
- Passing 1,600, andstill descending, - Launch the buoy.
- Passing 1, 650, Passing 1, 700, sir, - Launching!
[ Man Screaming ]
[ Buoy Beeping ]
[ Man I n Helicopter ] Benthic Explorer, Salvor 1 on final.
[Man On Ship ] Copyyou, Salvor 1, This is Benthic Explorer.
You're cleared to land.
Hey. They're coming.
- This, uh, could get pretty ugly. - Yeah.
It does not look good at all,
Oh, no. Lookwho's with 'em.
Queen bitch ofthe universe,
[Man Over Radio ] Sonny, howyou doing ?
I got two more welds on this bypass valve.
No light from the surface, How deep are they ?
- McBride? - 1,7 00 feet.
I need them to go below 2,000.
No problem. They can do that.
So that's it?
You just cheerfully turn the whole thing over to the goon squad?
Look, I was told to cooperate. I'm cooperating.
Kirkhill, you're pathetic.
Get Brigman on the line.
Hippy, get me Bud.
Catfish. Get them old buns up here and give me a hand.
Hang on, I'll be up there in a second,
You guys are milkin' that job.
It's 'cause we love freezin' our butts off out here foryou so much.
[Metal Banging]
- Hey, Bud! - Yeah?
Hippy's on the bitch box.
It's a call from Topside. Benthic company man.
- Kirkhill? - Yeah.
That guy don't know his butt from a rat hole.
Harry, do me a favor. Square away this mud hose.
Get rid ofthese empty sacks. This place is startin' to look like my apartment.
You got it, boss.
[Man On P,A,] Bud, pick up the topside line, urgent,
I'm comin'. I'm comin'. Geez, keep your panty hose on.
[Phone Buzzing]
Brigman here.
Yeah, Kirkhill, what's goin' on?
At 0922 local time today,
an American nuclear submarine, the USS Montana,
with 1 56 men aboard went down about 22 miles from here.
- Damn. - Been no contact with the sub since,
The cause ofthe incident is not known,
Your company's authorized the Navy's use ofthis facility for a rescue operation,
Code name: "Operation Salvor, "
- You want us to search for the sub? - No. We know where it is.
But she's in 2,000 feet ofwater and we can't reach her.
We need divers to enter the sub and search for survivors, if any.
Don'tyou guys haveyour own stuff for this kind ofthing?
By the time we get our rescue submersibles, storm front will be on us.
You can getyour rig in under the storm and be on site in 1 5 hours,
and that makes you our best option.
Why should we risk our butts for something like this?
I have been authorized to offer special bonuses...
equivalent to three times normal dive pay.
Yes, sir, buddy!
Hell, for triple time, I'd eat Beanie.
They could set me on fire and put me out with horse piddle.
I don't know what kind of deal you made with the company, but my people are not qualified.
- We're oil workers. - This is a paycheck, man!
Shut up! Hold it down.
This is Lieutenant Coffey.
He'll transfer down toyou with a SEAL team and supervise the operation.
You can send down whoeveryou like, but I'm the tool pusher on this rig,
and when it comes to the safety ofthese people, there's me and then there's God, understand?
Ifthings get dicey, I'm pullin' the plug,
I thinkwe're all on the same wavelength, Brigman.
Now, let's get the wellhead uncoupled, shall we?
All right, let's get ready to move.
Let's take it about five degrees left, all right?
Roger. Five degrees left, Bud.
Plot these numbers to our position. I need to know when--
Well, it's official, sports fans. They're calling it Hurricane Frederick.
And it's gonna be making our lives real interesting in a few hours.
Fred, huh ? I don't know, man,
I think hurricanes should be named afterwomen, don'tyou?
[Wind Gusting]
- I can't believe you're letting them do this. - Hi, Linds.
I thoughtyou were in Houston.
I was. Now I'm here.
- Only here isn't where I left it, is it, Bud? - Wasn't up to me.
Jesus! We were that close to proving a submersible drilling platform could work.
- I can't believe you let them grab my rig! - Your rig?
I designed the damn thing.
And Benthic Petroleum paid for it, so as long as they're holding the pink slip,
[Whistles ] I gowhere theytell me.
I had a lot riding on this, and they boughtyou, didn't they?
More like rented you cheap!
I'm switchin' offnow. Bye-bye.
Oh, okay, Virgil, you wiener! You never could stand up to a fight.
Bye-bye.
Virgil?
God, I hate that bitch.
Probably shouldn't have married her then, huh?
Try to get it settled!
[Man Over Radio ] Roger, Cab 3, You're clear to launch,
- Hang on, gentlemen. - [ Man ] She's clear!
Touchdown. Crowd goes wild.
[ Linds ] Explorer, this is Cab 3. We are styling.
- How are you boys doing back there? - Great.
Explorer, this is Cab 3 starting our descent along the umbilical.
-[Man ] Roger that, Cab 3, Goodluck, - Luck is not a factor.
# And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari #
#Tehachapi to Tonopah #
# Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made #
# Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed ##
[Linds ] Deep Core, Deep Core, this is Cab 3 on fnal approach,
Roger, Cab 3. Is that you, Lindsey?
None other.
Oh, no.
[Metal Banging]
Howdy, boys. Hey, Lindsey. I 'll be damned.
Y'all shouldn't be down here, sweet thing, Might ruinyour stockings,
[ Chuckles ]
The bad news is we got eight hours in this can blowing down,
and the worse news is it's gonna take us three weeks to decompress later.
We've all been fully briefed, Mrs. Brigman.
Just don't call me that, okay? I hate that.
All right. Well, what would you like us to call you?
"Sir"?
Okay, here we go.
Y'all start equalizin'... now.
[Air Hissing]
Let's watch each other closely for signs of H.P.N.S.
High Pressure Nervous Syndrome-- muscle tremors, usually in the hands first,
- nausea, increased excitability-- - Disorientation--
# And a partridge in a pear tree ##
[ Clears Throat ] About one person in 20 can't handle it.
Theyjust go "buggo."
Look, they've all made runs to this depth. They're checked out.
I understand that. What I'm saying is that it's impossible...
to predict just who's susceptible--
They're checked out.
- These guys are SEALs? - Yeah. These guys ain't so tough.
I've fought guys plenty tougher than them.
Now we get to hear how you could have been a contender?
- Hey! You see this? - Yeah,
They used to call this "the Hammer."
Wow.
Y'all are done to a turn and ready to serve.
Everybody okay?
- They're reallyvery sweet. - [ Chuckles ] Oh, yeah.
Hey! I don't remember putting a wall here. Howyou doing,Jammer?
-Pretty good. How areyou, little lady? -I'm okay.
- I want a full check on that gear. - Yes, sir.
- These guys are about as much fun as a tax audit. - You got that right.
Hippy,you're gonna give that rat a disease,
Hi, Linds,
Well, well. Mrs. Brigman.
Not for long.
You never did like being called that, did you?
Not even when it meant something.
- Is that One Night in Flatbed? - Yeah. Who else?
- Here. Say hi. - Hey, One Night, it's Lindsey.
Oh, hi, Lindsey.
So, what areyou doing down here, hot rod?
You need me. Nobody knows the systems on this rig better than I do.
Onceyou're disconnected from Explorer, you are on your own for how long this storm lasts.
What if something was to happen after surface support clears? What would you have done?
You're right. Us poor, dumb old boys might've had to think for ourselves.
It could have been a disaster.
- Wanna know what I think? -Jesus, lookwhere this thing is set.
- You wanna know what I think? - Not particularly.
- I thinkyou were worried about me. - Then that must be it.
Seriously, I thinkyou were. Come on.
It's okay. You can admit it.
I was worried about the rig. I've got fouryears invested in this project.
Yeah. You only had threeyears invested in me.
Well, you have to have priorities.
Oh, shit.
[ One Night ] I'm cuttin' you loose, Bud.
[Bud Over Radio ] One Night, stay clear, We're settin'her down,
Touchdown !
This is us. We're sitting right on the edge of the Cayman Trough.
This is the Montana,
300 meters away, 70 meters below us.
We think she slid down the wall, and now sits here on this outcropping.
So we're gonna have to drop straight down here.
This tell us how much radiation we're gettin'?
- I'm not going near radiation. No way! - Aw, Hippy, you pussy.
What good is the money? Six months later, your dick drops off.
What is your problem, huh?
On this dive,you'll do absolutelynothing,,,
without direct orders from me, and you'll follow those orders without discussion.
Is that clear?
All right,
I want everyone finished, prepped and ready to get wet in 1 5 minutes.
Keep it coming.
- Hippy, throw me one ofthem cyalumes, please. - Yeah, sure.
- Good. Good. - Excuse me.
- What is all this stuff? - Fluid-breathing system. We just got them.
- You use it when you go really deep. - How deep?
- Deep. - How deep?
It's classified. Anyway, you breathe liquid soyou can't get compressed.
-The pressure doesn't getyou. -You mean you got liquid in your lungs?
- Oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion. - Bullshit.
Check this out.
- Can I borrowyour rat? - What areyou doin'?
- Hey, no, no, no. - You're gonna kill her!
- It's okay. I've done this myself. - Are you just drownin' her?
She's gonna be fine.
I've breathed this myself. It's gonna be fine.
No, man. She's gonna drown! Look! She's freakin' out!
-Just going through a normal addjustment period., - Does this look normal toyou ?
- She's gonna drown ! - He's taking the fluid into his lungs,
He's taki ng the fl uid into his lungs.
There he goes. There's a bit of anxiety here.
Now he's starting to relax, He's breathing fne,
See his chest moving ? He's getting plenty ofoxygen,
Ha, Damn rat's breathin' that shit,
That is no bul lshit, hands down, the goddamnedest thing I ever saw.
See, the fluid's harder to push in and out than air.
It's a little more work to breathe, but he's doing fne,
- He's diggin' it. - She's doin' it. She ain't diggin' it.
Let her out now. Now!
Okay. All right.
Okay, now we let the fluid drain from his lungs.
All right. Give her here. Give her. Give her.
Here's your rat.
-See ? He's fne, - It's a she.
Going over the wall.
Coming to bearing 0-6-5.
Flatbed, you on line?
[One Night] 10-4, Lindsey, We readyou loudand clear,
Starting our descent. Divers, how you doin'?
Everybody's okay so far.
Hang on, boys. It's all downhill from here.
Hey, how deep's the drop-offhere?
This here's a bottomless pit, baby-- two-and-a-half miles straight down.
[Bud Over Radio ] Cab 3, it's Bud, You on-line ?
Cab 3, check. I'm right behind you.
Cab 1, do you see it yet?
Magnetometer's twitching, but I don't see anything yet.
Hang on. I want to test my strobes.
[ Coffey Over Radio ] Cab 1, doyou have a visual ?
- Cab 1, doyou copy ? - Yeah.
Roger that. Found it.
[ Coffey] Cab 1, radiation readings,
Neutron counter's not showing much.
All right. J ust continue forward and along the hull.
Copy that. Continuing forward. You want me to get shots of everything, yes?
Roger that, Document as much asyou can, but please keep moving,
Remember, we're on a tight time line.
[ Lindsey ] Copy that.
Coming up to the midship's hatch. Do you see it, Cab 3?
Yeah, roger. I got it.
- How do you want me? - [Bud] Just holdabove it,
- Roger. Holding. - Okay, it's allyours, Lieutenant,
All right, A-team. Let's do it.
Okay, Perry, Hippy, let's get that R.O.V. Iaunched.
Okay, we're on it, boss. Go.
Little Geek is on the case,
Monk here, sir.
We got the midship's outer hatch open.
Goin' in.
- Coffey, these are the missile hatches, right? -[ Coffey] That's right,
Looks like a couple ofthe hatches have sprung. Radiation's nominal.
Warheads must still be intact.
- How many are there? - 24 trident missiles. 8 MI RVs per missile.
That's 1 92 warheads, Coffey.
- How powerful are they? - Your MI RV is a tactical nuke.
50 kilotons nominal yield,
say, five times Hiroshima.
- justset it down here, - Copy that,
There's a breach in the pressure hull. That's where we go in.
- We're solid. - Let's go.
[ Bud ] All right. Let's go.
Okay, let's just take it slow and easy goin' in.
Don't take any chances.
Where are we, Coffey?
This is the forward berthing compartment. This way.
[Hull Groaning]
[ Coffey] Come on. Let's keep up.
All right. Up this way to the control center.
[ Straining ]
- It's jammed. Give me a hand. - Get up here with that pry bar.
It's moving! Pull!
Jesus!
All right. We knew we were gonna see this.Just move on.
Come on,Jammer. Let's go.
[Bud] Okay, let's staycool,
Everybody stay cool.
We can't help these guys, but we might find somebody further in.
- Hey,Jammer. You okay? - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Howyou guys doin'?
- I'm dealin'. - Triple time sounded like a lot of money, Bud. It ain't.
We're here. Let's get 'er done.
Brigman, takeyour men and continue aft.
Split up into two teams.
Come on. Let's get moving. We head back in 1 4 minutes.
Let's go.
- You still with me,Jammer? - Where are we?
Missile compartment. Those are the launch tubes.
Shit! Shit, shit, shit! [ Breathing Heavily]
Hey,Jammer.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! You okay?
Deep and slow, big guy.
Deep and slow. Just breathe easy.
Everybody's dead! They're all dead.
- I'm taking you back out. Let's go. - No!
I'm okay. I'm okay.
- I just can't go any further in. - Okay,Jammer. No problem. You stay right here.
I've got to check out this compartment, all right?
We'll stay in voice contact. You hold on the end ofthis rope here.
- You have any problem whatsoever, you tug twice. - I got it.
Pull it hard. Five more minutes. Just relax. You'll be okay.
- Okay. - Be right back.
[ Breathing Heavily]
[ Heavy Breathing Continues ]
You still readin' me okay, big guy?
[Jammer] Readyou fne, Bud,
Okay, just a few more minutes.
There's a couple compartments up ahead that might have air.
- Okay, noproblem, - We got to be sure, right?
Hang on,Jammer, Youjust hold on to that-- [Transmission Fades ]
Shit! Bud?
Bud, can you hear me? Bud? Bud?
Goddamn it!
[ Hyperventilating ]
Oh,Jesus!
[ Breathing Slows ]
Bud, is that you?
[ Loud Bang ]
Hang on,Jammer.
- [ Hyperventilating ] - Lew, Cat, hurry up! On the double!
[Lew] I'm on my way,
-Jammer! - [ Gurgling ]
- What's theproblem ? - He's convulsing!
It's his mixture. Too much oxygen.
Got to get the O-2 cut down! Turn him over!
Crank it down, man! You're losin' him!
All right. We got to get him out ofhere. Let's go. Let's move it.
Easy, big fella. That's it.
One Night, doyou see the divers? Are they outyet?
Negative, Lindsey. Haven't seen hide nor hair.
Let's give them two minutes more max, and then I'll sound a diver recall--
[ Bud Over Radio ] Lindsey, doyou copy?
Meet me at Flatbed. This is a diver emergency. Linds, doyou copy?
Uh, yeah, copyyou, Bud. I-I'm on myway.
Look, I'm just a medic, which is mostly about patchin' holes.
This type ofthing, it's-- There's not much I can do.
A coma could last hours or days.
Soyou didn't get anything on the cameras.
No. I didn't get a picture ofit.
- What about the video? - No.
We lost power right then. Look, I just don't want to talk about this, okay?
Fine. Be that way.
Look, I don't know what I saw, Bud, okay?
Coffeywants to call it a Russian submersible, fine, it's a Russian submersible.
- No problem. - Yeah, butyou think it was somethin' else.
What? One of ours?
- No. - Well, whose then?
Come on, Lindsey, talk to me.
Look,Jammer saw something down there, something that scared the hell out ofhim.
His mixture got screwed up. Jammer panicked.
He pranged his regulator, and his mixture got screwed up.
But what did he see that made him panic?
Well, what doyou think he saw?
I don't know.
- Did any ofyou see it? - No, sir. The Brigman woman saw it.
It could have been a Russian bogey.
Oh, Cinclantfleet's gonna go ape shit.
Two Russian attack subs, a Tango and a Victor, were tracked within 50 miles ofhere.
Nowtheydon't know where the hell theyare, Okay,
[ Sighs ] I haven't got any choice.
I'm confirming you to go to phase two.
You'll recover one warhead, arm it,,,
and wait for further instructions,
- We got a problem with that? - Negative, sir.
- [ Whistles ] Better come on. - Turn it up, folks.
Sources have not confirmed any reports that the Montana encountered...
a Soviet fast-attack sub prior to its sinking,
and the Kremlin continues to deny any involvement.
- Oh, that's us. That's us, man. - That's the Explorer.
...off-shore driling rig is apparently participating in the recovery operation.
There is a tremendous amount of activity.
With Cuba only 80 miles away,
the massive buildup ofAmerican forces...
has drawn official protest from Havana and Moscow.
Russian and Cuban trawlers, undoubtedlysurveillance vessels,
have been circling the area,
- and Soviet aircraft have repeatedly been warned away, - This sucks.
H i ppy, what's the matter with you?
What's the matter with me? Nothing.
We're just in the middle of some big-time international incident,
Iike the Cuban missile crisis or something.
Figured that out foryourself, did you, Hip?
We got Russian subs creepin' around.
Anything goes wrong, they could say whatever theywant happened.
Relax, will you? You're makin' the women nervous.
- Cute, Virgil. - You know, those SEALs ain't telling us diddly.
- Somethin' is going on! - Come on, come on.
Hippy, you think everything's a conspiracy.
Everything is.
Hurry up! Coffey's splitting with Flatbed.
- I showed him how to work the controls, and they're outta here. - Damn it.
- Didn'tyou tell him we need it right now? - He didn't pay attention.
- Where the hell is he taking it? - I have no idea !
Shit! Coffey! Come back!
We need the big arm to unhook the umbilical.
There's a goddamn hurricane comin'!
- He switched off, - It's unbelievable.
Go back down.
Tell those men to get below and stay there.
We need to get unhooked and get out ofhere now.
All right, do it then.
No problem, exceptyour boys went sightseeing with Flatbed.
My people need Flatbed to get unhooked at their end.
- Back in two hours. - Two hours?
We're gonna get the shit kicked out of us by our pal Fred in two hours.
Okay, it's clear.
It's all yours, sir.
- Swing it away and drop it. - Check. Okay.
Bypass the ground connection on the separation sequencer.
- Got it? - Separation sequencer disconnected.
Remove explosive bolts one through six in counterclockwise sequence.
Check. Removing bolt one.
All right. Let's get their gear off! Then clear the sub.
We got to get it out ofhere! Come on. Let's go. Let's move it.
One Night, you're up. Get ready to roll, baby.
- Don't touch that.Just back away. - Excusez-moi,
Hey, Coffey, we are a little pressed for time.
Prick. This ain't no drill, slick. Make me proud.
Piece of cake, baby.
[Loud Banging]
[Bud Over Radio ] What's the problem, One Night ?
All hell must be breaking loose up there. This cable's pissin' me off.
- I can't get a grip on it. - Well, keep tryin', baby, just keep tryin',
Son of a bitch!
- Shit! We got a problem! - [ Alarm Beeping ]
- What's going on? - We're losing number two thruster!
Bearing's going !
- It's not holding. We're swinging out of position here! - Goddamn it!
- [ Metal Scraping ] - Ooh! Jesus.
Ah, shit!
- The rig is movin'! - Yeah, I can see that.
Topside! Pay out some slack. We're gettin' dragged.
- Down on number one winch! Down on one! - We're gettin'dragged!
Bud, we're headed right for the drop-off.
What the hell ? Wejust lost all the topside feeds,
Shit! Get him on the U.Q.C.! Bud!
- We lost the crane ! - Say again. What?
The crane! We've lost the crane! It's on its way down to you!
All right, everybody. Everybody, rig for impact!
- [Alarm Blaring] - Close all the exterior hatches!
[Bud Over P,A, ] Go, go, go, go !
Wait, wait, wait!
Get in here!
What the hell is goin' on around here?
I don't know.
You two help secure the rig. Let's go.
One Night, you hear me? Get the hell out ofthere! The crane's comin' down!
[ Grunts, Groans ]
[ One Night ] I'm okay. I'm clear, Bud.
[Banging]
[ Radar Pinging ]
I've got it. It's headed straight for us.
[Radar Pinging Faster]
[Banging]
[ Relieved Sighs ]
Oh, shit.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. - [Lindsey] Oh, my God!
- Bud! - [Bud] Grab on to something !
Jesus!
[ All Grunting ]
-[ Bud ] Battery rooms front. Let's go! -Cat, put that out!
- Bud! - Yeah?
- Drill room's floodin'! - Get back down there!
Go! I'll take the battery room.Jesus!
[ Alarm Blaring ]
[ Panting Heavily]
Shit!
Get out ofthere! Close the door! Seal the room!
[Door Closing]
Lindsey, let's get out ofhere!
Whoa!
- [ Gasps ] - [ Squeaking ]
[ Screaming, Panting ]
- [ Alarm Blaring ] - [Rumbling]
Let's get the hell out ofhere!
Aaah!
Let's go!
Get the door!
- Aaah! -Jesus!
[ Muffled ] Bud! Bud!
[ Groans ]
Finler, cut the hose!
Cut the line to the motor!
I can't open it from out here!
- [ Screaming ] - Finler, cut the hose !
- [Loud Creak ] - Finler!
[ Grunting, Coughing ]
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