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Their attention quickly turned to the sonar scope, but few of them could see it; the operator had drawn hilass that his head obscured it Finally, Spencer straightened up He sighed deeply to himself, pulled a handkerchief from his hip pocket and rubbed his face and neck "That's all she wrote," he said hoarsely "There isn't any more"

"Still stationary," said the sonar operator "The Big T is still stationary"

"Go baby!" Giordino pleaded "Get your big ass up!"

"Oh God, dear God," Dru her to the bottom"

"Come on, damn you," Sandecker joined in "Liftlift"

If it was humanly possible for the rave it had occupied for seventy-six long years and return to the sunlight, the men crowded around the sonarscope would have surely made it so B

ut there was to be no psychokinetic phenomenon this day The Titanic stayed stubbornly clutched to the sea floor

"A dirty, rotten break," Farquar said

Drummer held his hands over his face, turned away, and stumbled from the room

"Woodson on the Sappho II requests permission to descend for a look-see," said Curly

Pitt shrugged "Perranted"

Sloearily, Admiral Sandecker sank into a chair "What price failure?" he said

The bitter taste of hopelessness flooded the roorim tide of total defeat

"What now?" Giordino asked, staring vacantly at the deck

"What we cao on with the salvage operation Toain to"