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Giordino looked at Pitt "Do you really think it can be done?"

"I really think it can be done"

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The structural engineers and theto themselves as they frantically shoved their slide rules back and forth Every so often, one of them would break away and walk over to the computers and check the readout sheets Admiral Sandecker, who had just arrived from the Bo

of coffee and shaking his head

"This will never be written into the textbooks on salvage," hea derelict off the bottom with explosives God, it's insane"

"What other choice do we have?" Pitt said "If we can kick the Titanic out of the mud, the Deep Fathom will be carried up with her"

"The whole idea is crazy," Gunn muttered "The concussion will only expand the cracked seam in the submersible's hull and cause instant implosion"

"Maybe Maybe not," Pitt said "But even if that occurs, it's probably best that Merker, Kiel, and Chavez die instantly froony of slow suffocation"

"And what about the Titanic?" Gunn persisted "We could blow everything we've worked for all these months all over the abyssal landscape"

"Score that as a calculated risk," Pitt said "The Titanic's construction is of a greater strength than irders, bulkheads, and decks are as sound as the night she sank The old girl can take whatever we dish out Make no mistake about it"

"Do you honestly think it ork?" Sandecker asked

"I do"

"I could order you not to do this thing You know that"

"I know that," Pitt replied "I'a"