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Merker's abrupt reference to the Titanic's dead left every man in the operations room a shade paler; every man that is, except Pitt He touched the transmit button "Just see to it you leave a clean ship We ain Pitt out"

It was interesting to see the reaction to Pitt's seely callous remark Giordino, Gunn, Spencer, and the others just stared at hier

Pitt touched Curly, the radio operator, on the shoulder "Patch er, but use a different frequency"

Curly looked up "You don't want those guys on the Deep Fathom to hear?"

"What they don't knoon't hurt them," said Pitt coldly "Now hurry it up"

Moments later Sandecker's voice boomed over the speaker "Capricorn, this is Admiral Sandecker Over"

"Pitt here, Admiral"

Sandecker wasted no tiainst?"

"'Gunn has briefed me," Pitt replied

"Then you knoe have exhausted every avenue No matter how you slice it, time is the enemy If we could stall the inevitable for another ten hours, we'd have a fighting chance of saving them" '

"There's one other way," Pitt said "The odds are high but mathematically, it's possible"

"I'estions"

Pitt hesitated "To begin with, we forget the Deep Fathoies in another direction"

Druoes on here? 'Forget the Deep Fatho lips "Are you mad?"

Pitt s smile "The last desperate roll of the dice, Drummer You people failed, and failed e, but as a rescue force, you come off like a bunch of amateurs Bad luck co that all is lost Well all is not lost, gentleame and put the Deep Fathom on the surface before the six-hour deadline, which, if my watch serves me, is non to five hours and forty-three minutes"