237A EXT. OCEAN FLOOR – A BALLET OF LIGHTS                                                  237A

 

            An explosion of light.  Tiny red lights like underwater fireflies drip down through the dark.  As the banks of

            lights settle on the bottom and touchdown, switches are activated.  The dark sea goes brighter and brighter.

            It’s a balletic and symphonic, a brilliant, brilliant and intricate MONTAGE of magic color and movement.

 

238    EXT. FLOTILLA – HELICOPTER SHOT – NIGHT                                                238

 

239    EXT. STERN ON MODOC                                                                                         239

 

            Through a double door under the fantail, two tracks of light, self-contained beacons, clear the poop and drop

            into the sea.  The CAMERA TRACKS them as they splash down, starting their long descent.

 

240    UNDERWATER – MOVING SHOTS – BEACONS                                                  240

 

            Plunging deeper and revolving.  The fist of them sends out enough incandescence to pick up the hull of the

            Deep Quest, dark in the ocean.

 

241    INT. SEA CLIFF – PITT                                                                                             241

 

            At the controls, he watches through the plastic bubble viewport.  Behind him is Isbell.  In the b.g. through the

            portside, the torch slides slowly by.

 

242    ANOTHER ANGLE                                                                                                     242

 

            Like some vast unknown continent, the Titanic materializes, physically overwhelming.  The CAMERA PANS

            TO the hull, TRACING the jagged wound that stretches from the starboard forepeak to her boilers.  Listing

            twenty degrees to starboard, her majesty remains.

 

243    EXT. UNDERWATER – GREAT DRUMS                                                                243

 

            The syntactic foam is lowered on downhauls.  The CAMERA TRACKS them to the Titanic as the three

            submersibles approach, guiding the hoses toward the sunken ship.

 

244    EXT. DEEP QUEST – ANOTHER ANGLE                                                               244

 

            Patching the jagged slash in the Titanic’s hull.  The foam spreads into the aperture, spreading and hardening.

 

244A INT. DEEP QUEST                                                                                                    244A

            The crew are at work.

 

245    INT. ENGINE ROOM – TITANIC                                                                             245

 

            As the foam pours in the seawater is displaced out of the ship’s hull.

 

246    EXT. TURTLE                                                                                                             246

            The claw places a lid on one of the smokestacks.

 

246A INT. TURTLE                                                                                                            246A

 

            The men are concentrating on their jobs.

 

247    EXT. SEA CLIFF                                                                                                         247

 

            An underwater acetylene torch gripped by the claw burns a neat hole in the hull.

 

247A INT. SEA CLIFF                                                                                                        247A

 

            The crew are at work.

 

248    FULL FLOTILLA – NIGHT                                                                                        248

 

            Lights are sparkling in the darkness as the night crew are hard at work.

 

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