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"We'd better have a look," the commander said "Up periscope"

The periscope tubing huripped the handles and stared through the eyepiece

"Looks quiet enough," he said "She's got a heavy list to starboard and she's down by the bow, but not bad enough to be considered dangerous yet No distress flags flying No one in sight on her decks-wait a ehouse roof" The conification "Good lord!" he muttered "It's a woman"

The officer stared at hi expression "You did say a woman, sir?"

"See for yourself"

The officer saw for hi blond wo a brassiere

Tenunder the shadow of the Titanic

Thirty minutes later, reserve fuel froh a pipe that arched across the still thrashing swells and passed neatly into a hastily cut hole in the Titanic's hull

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t's fro the latest in a long line of communications "Her captain has sent a work party aboard the Titanic to assist Pitt and his salvage crew He states that the derelict should re the tow providing, of course, she's not struck by another hurricane"

"Thank God for small favors," Marshall Collins exhaled between yawns

"He also reports," Kerae form, whatever that means"

Mel Donner moved out of the bathroom, a towel still draped over his arm "Would you repeat that, Admiral?"

"The captain of the Dragonfish says that Mrs Dana Seagram is alive and well"