323    EXT. DECK, TITANIC – AMIDSHIPS – HIGH ANGLE – DAY                              323

 

          We’re SHOOTING DOWN INTO an open hatchway.  C.P.O. WELCH, SEAMAN ERICSON and

            SEAMAN LARCH and a half a dozen other men are trying with crowbars to dislodge a rusted steel beam

            that’s angled across a hatchway.  No luck.

 

WELCH

(looks up INTO the CAMERA)

                                                                        We can’t budge it, sir.  This

                                                                        hatchway is just as jammed as

                                                                        the others.

 

            We PULL STRAIGHT UP TO AN OVER-SHOULDER, Seagram, Pitt and Giordino looking down

            into the hatchway.

 

GIORDINO

                                                                        We’d need dynamite to get down

                                                                        through that mess.

 

PITT

                                                                        I was afraid of that.  That means

                                                                        we’ll have to tow her to New York

                                                                        where they’ve got the cutting gear

                                                                        we need.

 

324    EXT. DECK – ANOTHER ANGLE                                                                            324

 

            Sandecker comes out on deck.  Hurries aft to Pitt.

 

PITT

                                                                        What’s the word?

 

SANDECKER

                                                                        Newfoundland weather says we

                                                                        shouldn’t have a problem.  But the

                                                                        Navy’s station in Newfoundland changed

                                                                        their tune.  They say it’s going to blow

                                                                        right through us.

 

PITT

                                                                        Let’s hope the Navy’s wrong.

 

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