And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Wait, what time was I supposed to be back inside?!?
In the classic film Run Silent, Run Deep actor Nick Cravat (lifetime pal of co-star Burt Lancaster) naps on the deck of his sub and his character awakens only when the sub begins to submerge, forcing the captain to surface just in time for Cravat's character to escape being left out of the vessel.
Um, no. Nick played the cook, and was throwing out the garbage when a diving drill was abruptly called. He managed to grab his trusty pocketknife and start morse code tapping out a message on the conning tower hatch to signal his plight, and barely made it up the mast to avoid drowning before the dive was reversed.
Maybe watching the flick about 100 times has given me an unfair advantage on this one, but Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Brad Dexter, Jack Warden, and Don Rickles, plus a submarine movie written by Ed Beach? O Hell yes. They should have made ten more such.
A submariner told me a story about a buddy of his , a mess cook who got transferred to the Nautilus nuclear sub. when they neared the Artic circle the cook snuck forward to the nose of the sub and became the first person to cross the Pole underwater.
An ELT doing swipes upon surfacing?
ReplyDeleteELT’s swipe further aft.
Deleteride the orca
ReplyDeleteHal, open the hatch
ReplyDelete"I'm afraid I can't do that."
DeleteLookin for that leak...
ReplyDeleteIn the classic film Run Silent, Run Deep actor Nick Cravat (lifetime pal of co-star Burt Lancaster) naps on the deck of his sub and his character awakens only when the sub begins to submerge, forcing the captain to surface just in time for Cravat's character to escape being left out of the vessel.
ReplyDeleteUm, no.
DeleteNick played the cook, and was throwing out the garbage when a diving drill was abruptly called.
He managed to grab his trusty pocketknife and start morse code tapping out a message on the conning tower hatch to signal his plight, and barely made it up the mast to avoid drowning before the dive was reversed.
Maybe watching the flick about 100 times has given me an unfair advantage on this one, but Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Brad Dexter, Jack Warden, and Don Rickles, plus a submarine movie written by Ed Beach?
O Hell yes.
They should have made ten more such.
Looks like they went into a turn.
ReplyDelete"Get out there and swab the deck."
ReplyDeleteCan I talk to you about your submarine’s warranty ?
ReplyDelete"Lemme see...it's righty-tight, lefty-loosey, right....?"
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's in rough seas.
ReplyDeleteA submariner told me a story about a buddy of his , a mess cook who got transferred to the Nautilus nuclear sub. when they neared the Artic circle the cook snuck forward to the nose of the sub and became the first person to cross the Pole underwater.
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