WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.480 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. John Hodiac in tonight's presentation 00:12.480 --> 00:15.440 of Suspense. 00:15.440 --> 00:26.680 Tonight, Auto Light recreates an historical puzzle as we attempt to locate a sunken treasure. 00:26.680 --> 00:31.640 The story based on fact is called Gold of the Atomar. 00:31.640 --> 00:33.880 Our star, Mr. John Hodiac. 00:33.880 --> 00:34.880 Hello. 00:34.880 --> 00:35.880 Hello. 00:35.880 --> 00:43.440 Why, Sheriff, you look like a dude on Saturday night. 00:43.440 --> 00:46.080 Well, I'm going for a ride in my new car. 00:46.080 --> 00:47.640 Well, she is over there. 00:47.640 --> 00:52.760 Well, an Auto Light equipped car, I see, with a complete Auto Light electrical system, including 00:52.760 --> 00:57.720 the coil distributor, voltage regulator, starting motor, generator, spark plugs, and battery. 00:57.720 --> 01:00.600 You mean Auto Light makes whole electrical systems, Harlow? 01:00.600 --> 01:04.880 They sure do, Sheriff, and every unit and every component part of the Auto Light electrical 01:04.880 --> 01:10.040 system is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you 01:10.040 --> 01:13.040 the smoothest performance money can buy. 01:13.040 --> 01:17.640 That's why Auto Light electrical systems are installed as original equipment on many leading 01:17.640 --> 01:21.040 makes of our finest cars, trucks, tractors, and boats. 01:21.040 --> 01:23.480 Well, I sure am lucky. 01:23.480 --> 01:24.480 Right you are, Sheriff. 01:24.480 --> 01:28.880 So friends, be sure to insist on Auto Light original service parts for the electrical 01:28.880 --> 01:33.320 system of your Auto Light equipped car, truck, tractor, or boat. 01:33.320 --> 01:38.800 You'll find it pays because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto 01:38.800 --> 01:41.400 Light. 01:41.400 --> 01:49.520 And now, Auto Light presents Mr. John Hodiac in Gold of the Atomar, a story based on fact, 01:49.520 --> 01:58.880 hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 01:58.880 --> 02:03.160 You don't hear the splash when you're lowered over the side on a diving stage. 02:03.160 --> 02:07.480 Draped in 200 pounds of lead, copper, and rubberized canvas, the main concern at the 02:07.480 --> 02:13.120 moment is the precarious balance between the inlet and exhaust air valves. 02:13.120 --> 02:18.160 Then you step off the diving stage, hang by your lifelines, and begin the long, slow drop 02:18.160 --> 02:21.600 into the frigid blackness of the bottom of the sea. 02:21.600 --> 02:27.800 As many times as I've done this, I've never felt free from the paralyzing fear of the deep. 02:27.800 --> 02:30.480 The ocean seems to take on a malignant personality. 02:30.480 --> 02:34.320 At this time, the stakes are high. 02:34.320 --> 02:38.200 I'm dropping down to a barnacled hulk that has in its strong room three million dollars 02:38.200 --> 02:39.200 in gold. 02:39.200 --> 02:46.140 And as the light from the surface slowly fades, I relax and think. 02:46.140 --> 02:49.480 Think about the beginning of my lust for gold. 02:49.480 --> 03:05.560 This won't be the same without you, Nick. 03:05.560 --> 03:06.560 Thanks. 03:06.560 --> 03:07.560 Still trying to figure out why. 03:07.560 --> 03:10.720 After 14 years, you suddenly decide to leave the Navy. 03:10.720 --> 03:11.720 Tired of living underwater. 03:11.720 --> 03:12.720 But what if... 03:12.720 --> 03:15.280 I've had a couple of offers from civilian salvage outfits. 03:15.280 --> 03:16.280 Doing what? 03:16.280 --> 03:17.280 Supervising, boys. 03:17.280 --> 03:18.280 Supervising. 03:18.280 --> 03:19.280 Up top. 03:19.280 --> 03:20.280 Where the sun shines. 03:20.280 --> 03:22.360 But you don't have to dive anymore if you don't want to. 03:22.360 --> 03:23.360 Being an instructor... 03:23.360 --> 03:24.360 Fred. 03:24.360 --> 03:25.360 What? 03:25.360 --> 03:26.360 Fred. 03:26.360 --> 03:27.360 It's a monetary world. 03:27.360 --> 03:29.360 If I have to live in it, I'm going to get some of it. 03:29.360 --> 03:30.360 So? 03:30.360 --> 03:31.360 So, listen. 03:31.360 --> 03:34.720 If I can get a civilian birth, it'll give me three times as much in the next five years 03:34.720 --> 03:35.720 as I can get here. 03:35.720 --> 03:36.720 Then I'm going to do it. 03:36.720 --> 03:39.560 You'll be eligible for pension in six years. 03:39.560 --> 03:40.560 Couldn't care less. 03:40.560 --> 03:41.560 And that's it? 03:41.560 --> 03:42.560 Yep. 03:42.560 --> 03:43.560 That's it. 03:43.560 --> 03:47.360 Where will you be staying? 03:47.360 --> 03:48.360 New York for now. 03:48.360 --> 03:50.120 Write me as soon as you have an address. 03:50.120 --> 03:51.120 I will. 03:51.120 --> 03:52.880 Don't get too much of a sun tan. 03:52.880 --> 04:06.400 Right now I'd gladly take a blistering burn. 04:06.400 --> 04:07.400 Sunburn. 04:07.400 --> 04:10.080 Someday I'll get one. 04:10.080 --> 04:14.320 Maybe after all this is over, I'll have enough of the monetary world to bask in the sun for 04:14.320 --> 04:16.680 the rest of my life. 04:16.680 --> 04:18.440 Right now though, I'm cold. 04:18.440 --> 04:22.880 I have to swallow over and over again to clear my ears. 04:22.880 --> 04:26.680 This wasn't what I had in mind when I left the service. 04:26.680 --> 04:38.600 That is, I didn't have it in mind until Carl Foster talked to me. 04:38.600 --> 04:43.320 I went to the Navy Yard hoping to talk you into getting a leave of absence. 04:43.320 --> 04:44.680 But now that you've left the service... 04:44.680 --> 04:46.720 How'd you find me here in New York? 04:46.720 --> 04:48.960 I spoke to Fred James, your ex-roommate. 04:48.960 --> 04:49.960 Why me? 04:49.960 --> 04:53.600 The country's full of competent divers. 04:53.600 --> 04:54.600 Perhaps. 04:54.600 --> 04:57.200 But I want one who's more than just competent. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.120 What's the job? 04:59.120 --> 05:00.120 Then you'll take it? 05:00.120 --> 05:01.120 Depend. 05:01.120 --> 05:02.120 On what? 05:02.120 --> 05:03.120 Equipment. 05:03.120 --> 05:04.800 Most of all, money. 05:04.800 --> 05:05.800 I've got the equipment. 05:05.800 --> 05:06.800 And the money? 05:06.800 --> 05:10.440 How about one-fifth of three million dollars? 05:10.440 --> 05:14.560 Let me tell you something, Mr. Foster. 05:14.560 --> 05:15.560 Carl. 05:15.560 --> 05:16.560 Carl. 05:16.560 --> 05:20.840 When I made my first dive into deep water, I had dreams about getting the loot from every 05:20.840 --> 05:23.680 sunken Spanish galleon that ever sailed the high seas. 05:23.680 --> 05:26.760 But I'm grown up now. 05:26.760 --> 05:28.760 This is another treasure hunt, and it's no deal. 05:28.760 --> 05:29.760 I've done that bit. 05:29.760 --> 05:31.880 But this isn't just another treasure hunt. 05:31.880 --> 05:34.840 This is the gold that went down with the Atomar. 05:34.840 --> 05:36.520 The Atomar's never been located. 05:36.520 --> 05:38.960 It's in twenty-four fathoms of water. 05:38.960 --> 05:41.560 Yeah, go on. 05:41.560 --> 05:44.280 I trust you, Nick, but I can't afford to take chances. 05:44.280 --> 05:46.280 Forget about the vacation for a minute. 05:46.280 --> 05:47.280 Forgotten. 05:47.280 --> 05:48.280 What kind of shape is she in? 05:48.280 --> 05:49.960 I don't know for sure. 05:49.960 --> 05:54.680 All I can tell from topside is that she seems to be resting in a gully. 05:54.680 --> 05:55.680 Not good. 05:55.680 --> 05:57.400 Any chance you might be wrong? 05:57.400 --> 05:58.400 Possibly. 05:58.400 --> 06:00.800 My instruments only gave me the general condition of the wreck. 06:00.800 --> 06:02.280 Well, then you haven't been down. 06:02.280 --> 06:03.280 No. 06:03.280 --> 06:04.280 And I can't anymore. 06:04.280 --> 06:05.280 Why not? 06:05.280 --> 06:06.280 Heart. 06:06.280 --> 06:08.720 Last case of the Benz ruined. 06:08.720 --> 06:09.720 Sorry. 06:09.720 --> 06:13.400 But if you haven't been down, how can you be sure it's the Atomar? 06:13.400 --> 06:14.400 I'll tell you. 06:14.400 --> 06:18.560 As you probably know, the Atomar was en route to Morocco from here with three million dollars 06:18.560 --> 06:19.560 in bullion. 06:19.560 --> 06:22.800 The rest of the cargo had a secret loading manifest. 06:22.800 --> 06:25.040 Uh, 1910, wasn't it? 06:25.040 --> 06:26.040 1911. 06:26.040 --> 06:30.000 She was last heard from 26 miles southeast of Nantucket Light Ship. 06:30.000 --> 06:31.480 Them disappeared. 06:31.480 --> 06:32.480 Right. 06:32.480 --> 06:35.000 They've looked for her for forty-two years. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.360 Well, then how can you be sure it's the Atomar you've located? 06:38.360 --> 06:41.600 Little over twenty miles southeast of the light ship, I found a wreck. 06:41.600 --> 06:46.000 Now, I've checked records till I'm blind, and there's no known wreck of that size reported 06:46.000 --> 06:47.320 within fifteen miles. 06:47.320 --> 06:50.080 That's kind of flimsy proof. 06:50.080 --> 06:51.560 I got a deal for you. 06:51.560 --> 06:52.680 Go ahead. 06:52.680 --> 06:53.920 Make one dive for me. 06:53.920 --> 06:57.560 If it is the Atomar, we continue with our prearranged deal. 06:57.560 --> 06:58.560 If not? 06:58.560 --> 07:00.560 I'll pay you five hundred for the dive. 07:00.560 --> 07:01.560 The deal. 07:01.560 --> 07:04.680 How soon can you get your equipment together? 07:04.680 --> 07:06.160 We're ready to sail right now. 07:06.160 --> 07:09.120 You were pretty sure of yourself, weren't you? 07:09.120 --> 07:13.040 To answer that, I'll deliver a message from your roommate Fred. 07:13.040 --> 07:14.040 What's that? 07:14.040 --> 07:27.520 He told me to tell you it's a monetary world. 07:27.520 --> 07:31.320 My world is now apart from the world of normal men. 07:31.320 --> 07:34.960 My world is composed of me and the depths of the Black Sea. 07:34.960 --> 07:40.280 There's no sound but the hiss of the exhaust valve as it sends a long ribbon of bubbles 07:40.280 --> 07:41.280 upward. 07:41.280 --> 07:45.120 Topside, in the normal world, everything's ready. 07:45.120 --> 07:46.960 Nothing is left to chance. 07:46.960 --> 07:47.960 Everything must be right. 07:47.960 --> 07:59.800 The men, the time, the place, and the equipment. 07:59.800 --> 08:02.880 And you've got it, the ship's rigged to tackle anything. 08:02.880 --> 08:04.880 You weren't kidding when you said you were ready to go. 08:04.880 --> 08:05.880 No, I wasn't. 08:05.880 --> 08:06.880 Shall we? 08:06.880 --> 08:07.880 Anchor's away. 08:07.880 --> 08:08.880 Mr. Gordon. 08:08.880 --> 08:09.880 Aye, sir. 08:09.880 --> 08:10.880 Hoist anchor, we're on our way. 08:10.880 --> 08:11.880 Aye, aye, sir. 08:11.880 --> 08:12.880 Let's go to my cabin. 08:12.880 --> 08:13.880 Good idea. 08:13.880 --> 08:22.600 I want everything right when I go over the side. 08:22.600 --> 08:23.600 In here. 08:23.600 --> 08:24.600 Thanks. 08:24.600 --> 08:29.600 Your gear stowed away? 08:29.600 --> 08:30.600 All secured. 08:30.600 --> 08:31.600 Fine, fine. 08:31.600 --> 08:36.200 Now, here's the layout of the Atomar. 08:36.200 --> 08:41.000 Where's the strong room? 08:41.000 --> 08:44.480 It's right here. 08:44.480 --> 08:45.480 Three decks down. 08:45.480 --> 08:47.480 I thought you'd feel that way. 08:47.480 --> 08:49.480 Well, it's not a problem, really. 08:49.480 --> 08:53.880 In a flexible rig of 24 fathoms, I can go right down the stairs from the superstructure 08:53.880 --> 08:56.040 to that room and torch my way in. 08:56.040 --> 08:57.040 If the hull is upright. 08:57.040 --> 08:58.360 You think it isn't? 08:58.360 --> 09:00.040 I can't be sure. 09:00.040 --> 09:02.560 Instruments registered smooth surface for an aft. 09:02.560 --> 09:05.320 I think she's on her side in the gully. 09:05.320 --> 09:07.360 There weren't any survivors, were there? 09:07.360 --> 09:08.360 No. 09:08.360 --> 09:12.440 On the night she sank, a CQD was picked up before recognition was given as gone. 09:12.440 --> 09:14.240 Maybe we'll find out how she went down. 09:14.240 --> 09:15.240 Maybe. 09:15.240 --> 09:16.240 But remember, we only have a week. 09:16.240 --> 09:19.280 Anyway, if she's on her side, here's what we have to do. 09:19.280 --> 09:20.280 Wait a minute. 09:20.280 --> 09:21.440 You said you only had a week. 09:21.440 --> 09:22.440 Why only a week? 09:22.440 --> 09:26.860 Well, before I located this, I'd already contracted to go to South America for five years to do 09:26.860 --> 09:29.000 a series of salvage jobs. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.920 I don't want to take the chance of somebody else finding the atomar while I'm gone. 09:31.920 --> 09:34.000 Well, isn't the bullion worth more than the contract? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.400 Well, it is if it's there. 09:36.400 --> 09:38.720 I've seen empty strong rooms before. 09:38.720 --> 09:42.400 Well, you want to get in, get the loot if it's there, and get out, is that it? 09:42.400 --> 09:43.400 On the button. 09:43.400 --> 09:44.400 There you go. 09:44.400 --> 09:45.400 Blasting instead of torching. 09:45.400 --> 09:46.400 Blasting, huh? 09:46.400 --> 09:49.320 What about the rest of the cargo? 09:49.320 --> 09:53.640 No one seems to be able to get a hold of a copy of the manifest. 09:53.640 --> 09:57.000 We may find something interesting when we get to Holopen depth. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.120 Ah, yes, we may. 09:59.120 --> 10:01.240 Well, here we go. 10:01.240 --> 10:03.240 Yep, here we go. 10:03.240 --> 10:06.240 And I didn't even get a sunburn. 10:06.240 --> 10:07.240 Huh? 10:07.240 --> 10:08.240 What was that? 10:08.240 --> 10:20.880 Nothing, nothing at all. 10:20.880 --> 10:22.920 I no longer look upward. 10:22.920 --> 10:26.080 The land of my world is about to come to me from beneath. 10:26.080 --> 10:29.480 I turn my lamp on again and flash it downward. 10:29.480 --> 10:34.120 A mare seeming to rise up from the dark of nothing is a ship. 10:34.120 --> 10:36.280 And I'm no longer alone. 10:36.280 --> 10:38.760 Here is something from my other world. 10:38.760 --> 10:43.240 Here is something which was touched by men who felt the warmth of sunlight. 10:43.240 --> 10:49.440 Here at my feet could be the wreck of the atomar. 10:49.440 --> 10:50.440 On the bottom. 10:50.440 --> 10:51.440 Bull dry. 10:51.440 --> 10:53.160 I'm on the hull. 10:53.160 --> 10:54.160 How do you feel? 10:54.160 --> 10:55.160 Fine. 10:55.160 --> 10:58.960 Now, Nick, tell me everything you see and what you're doing. 10:58.960 --> 10:59.960 Right. 10:59.960 --> 11:05.040 I think I'm pretty close to midships. 11:05.040 --> 11:06.040 You were right. 11:06.040 --> 11:07.040 She's on her side. 11:07.040 --> 11:08.040 Uh-huh. 11:08.040 --> 11:09.040 Now, remember, you've only got enough. 11:09.040 --> 11:12.040 I'm going to check the boat deck for a nameplate. 11:12.040 --> 11:15.040 Okay, but be careful. 11:15.040 --> 11:16.040 Yeah. 11:16.040 --> 11:17.040 Top side. 11:17.040 --> 11:18.040 Here. 11:18.040 --> 11:22.640 You won't have to pay me for the dive. 11:22.640 --> 11:23.640 It's the atomar? 11:23.640 --> 11:24.640 That's what it says here. 11:24.640 --> 11:25.640 Oh, start counting your money. 11:25.640 --> 11:26.640 I've spent it already. 11:26.640 --> 11:27.640 Hey, what's the layout, huh? 11:27.640 --> 11:35.520 From where I am, the beam of my lamp just barely reaches to the sides of the gullet 11:35.520 --> 11:36.520 you mentioned. 11:36.520 --> 11:41.960 They're about 20 feet higher than the hull as it lies now. 11:41.960 --> 11:44.640 What kind of bottom do you have? 11:44.640 --> 11:48.680 Can't say for sure, but it doesn't look like sand. 11:48.680 --> 11:49.680 Probably mud. 11:49.680 --> 11:50.680 Watch your footing. 11:50.680 --> 11:51.680 Okay. 11:51.680 --> 11:52.680 We're going over to... 11:52.680 --> 11:53.680 What's the matter up there? 11:53.680 --> 11:54.680 Ah, a little chop sprung up. 11:54.680 --> 11:55.680 We're pitching a bit. 11:55.680 --> 11:56.680 Give me more line. 11:56.680 --> 11:57.680 Oh, on its way. 11:57.680 --> 11:58.680 I'm near a side entry port. 11:58.680 --> 11:59.680 Can't make out the number. 11:59.680 --> 12:00.680 Let me check. 12:00.680 --> 12:01.680 You're on the starboard side, you say? 12:01.680 --> 12:02.680 That should make it the one next to the port. 12:02.680 --> 12:15.680 Where's the strong room from where I am? 12:15.680 --> 12:21.800 About 20 feet aft of you. 12:21.800 --> 12:22.800 I'll check. 12:22.800 --> 12:23.800 Carl? 12:23.800 --> 12:26.800 Yeah, go ahead, Nick. 12:26.800 --> 12:32.240 I know how the atomar was sunk. 12:32.240 --> 12:33.240 What's that? 12:33.240 --> 12:36.400 There's a hole in midships big enough to drive a truck through. 12:36.400 --> 12:38.400 Can you make out any detail? 12:38.400 --> 12:40.400 The plates are bent inward. 12:40.400 --> 12:43.400 Looks like a mine or torpedo. 12:43.400 --> 12:46.400 Nothing we can do about that now. 12:46.400 --> 12:48.640 Are you near the strong room yet? 12:48.640 --> 12:51.640 Heading for it right now. 12:51.640 --> 12:53.200 Got to get around this hole. 12:53.200 --> 12:55.600 You want us to lift you over? 12:55.600 --> 12:56.600 No. 12:56.600 --> 12:59.600 I'll find foothold on the rivet. 12:59.600 --> 13:02.600 Top side. 13:02.600 --> 13:03.600 Carl? 13:03.600 --> 13:06.600 Yeah, yeah, what is it? 13:06.600 --> 13:07.600 Flipping. 13:07.600 --> 13:08.600 No foothold. 13:08.600 --> 13:09.600 Take up the slacks. 13:09.600 --> 13:10.600 Take it up. 13:10.600 --> 13:11.600 Hey, haul away Gordon, haul away. 13:11.600 --> 13:12.600 Carl? 13:12.600 --> 13:13.600 Your lines are taunt. 13:13.600 --> 13:14.600 Can't budge them. 13:14.600 --> 13:15.600 Black off. 13:15.600 --> 13:16.600 Nick? 13:16.600 --> 13:17.600 The bottom's mud all right. 13:17.600 --> 13:18.600 A minute over my head. 13:18.600 --> 13:19.600 Lost my lamp. 13:19.600 --> 13:20.600 Can't see a thing. 13:20.600 --> 13:21.600 Look, Nick, we're going to pull three times on your line. 13:21.600 --> 13:22.600 Let us know if you feel it. 13:22.600 --> 13:29.600 Go ahead. 13:29.600 --> 13:34.600 I said go ahead. 13:34.600 --> 13:35.600 We did. 13:35.600 --> 13:36.600 Did you feel it? 13:36.600 --> 13:37.600 No. 13:37.600 --> 13:38.600 We'll pull a little harder. 13:38.600 --> 13:39.600 Black off. 13:39.600 --> 13:40.600 Black off. 13:40.600 --> 13:41.600 My lines are fouled. 13:41.600 --> 13:42.600 Are you sure? 13:42.600 --> 13:43.600 I think they're fouled on one of the bent plates in the hull. 13:43.600 --> 13:44.600 What are you going to do? 13:44.600 --> 13:45.600 I don't know. 13:45.600 --> 13:46.600 I don't think. 13:46.600 --> 13:47.600 I'm ready to die. 13:47.600 --> 14:14.600 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. John Hodiac with Joseph Kearns in Gold of the Atomar, tonight's 14:14.600 --> 14:21.600 presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:21.600 --> 14:35.600 Say, Harlow, how long's Auto Light been making them automotive electrical systems? 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16:21.800 --> 16:23.600 I'm aware of Carl's voice intruding. 16:23.600 --> 16:24.600 Nick. 16:24.600 --> 16:28.640 A welcome intrusion because it's a voice in the world I so desperately wish I was in. 16:28.640 --> 16:29.640 Nick. 16:29.640 --> 16:30.640 Nick, can you hear me? 16:30.640 --> 16:31.640 Are you okay? 16:31.640 --> 16:32.640 Yeah, Carl. 16:32.640 --> 16:34.640 Up to now, I'm okay. 16:34.640 --> 16:37.880 We've taken up all the slack. 16:37.880 --> 16:38.880 Don't try any harder. 16:38.880 --> 16:42.400 If my line is fouled on a hull plate, it might tear my air hose. 16:42.400 --> 16:43.400 We know. 16:43.400 --> 16:46.080 The important thing is to get you out of the mud. 16:46.080 --> 16:47.080 Important to who? 16:47.080 --> 16:48.080 Me? 16:48.080 --> 16:49.080 Well, the three million bucks. 16:49.080 --> 16:50.080 Oh, no, easy, Nick. 16:50.080 --> 16:51.080 Sorry. 16:51.080 --> 16:54.080 Are your hands free? 16:54.080 --> 16:55.080 No. 16:55.080 --> 17:00.640 My left hand is pressed against my side. 17:00.640 --> 17:01.640 My right's across my chest. 17:01.640 --> 17:02.640 Can you move your legs? 17:02.640 --> 17:03.640 Not too far. 17:03.640 --> 17:04.640 Not too far? 17:04.640 --> 17:05.640 Not much. 17:05.640 --> 17:08.520 Even if I could, it wouldn't do any good. 17:08.520 --> 17:10.520 No solid footing here. 17:10.520 --> 17:11.520 Nick. 17:11.520 --> 17:12.520 Yeah. 17:12.520 --> 17:17.760 Want me to come down and get you? 17:17.760 --> 17:18.760 Want to die? 17:18.760 --> 17:19.760 We've got to do something. 17:19.760 --> 17:20.760 I know. 17:20.760 --> 17:21.760 Topside. 17:21.760 --> 17:22.760 Oh, right here, Nick. 17:22.760 --> 17:25.760 I'm going to try something. 17:25.760 --> 17:32.400 My right hand's near enough to my inlet valve to turn it full on. 17:32.400 --> 17:34.000 Oh, you're blown. 17:34.000 --> 17:35.000 Right. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.480 Maybe I'll get enough buoyancy to drag myself out of this muck. 17:37.480 --> 17:39.160 If you pop through too fast, you'll surface. 17:39.160 --> 17:41.520 Or you'll be dead before we can get to you. 17:41.520 --> 17:46.440 I think I can get into the inlet valve fast enough to cut my air down and let it bleed 17:46.440 --> 17:48.680 out slowly so I can stay down. 17:48.680 --> 17:52.040 Then I'll get my lines free and you can haul me up. 17:52.040 --> 17:55.240 Let it into the decompression chamber just in case I miss. 17:55.240 --> 17:56.240 No, no, no, no. 17:56.240 --> 17:57.240 It's too risky. 17:57.240 --> 17:58.240 Don't do it. 17:58.240 --> 17:59.240 Got a better idea? 17:59.240 --> 18:00.240 No. 18:00.240 --> 18:06.760 Then we'll do it my way. 18:06.760 --> 18:10.960 I'm no hero, but it's the only way out of the mud. 18:10.960 --> 18:12.840 Ballooning my rig could kill me. 18:12.840 --> 18:17.240 If I don't shut off my air in time, I'll shoot up to the surface. 18:17.240 --> 18:20.920 Then if I miss braining myself on the hull of the salvage ship, I'll pop through the 18:20.920 --> 18:24.160 surface and be dead of the bend before Carl gets to me. 18:24.160 --> 18:26.240 But I have to risk it. 18:26.240 --> 18:31.080 I don't want to die in the dark of the mud. 18:31.080 --> 18:35.760 Slowly I inch my hand up to my breastplate and twist the handle of the inlet valve. 18:35.760 --> 18:41.280 As my rig inflates, I feel the pressure of the mud ease off. 18:41.280 --> 18:42.280 A little more. 18:42.280 --> 18:44.320 A little more. 18:44.320 --> 18:47.440 Suddenly I pull free and shoot up toward the surface. 18:47.440 --> 18:50.440 I claw for the air valve and turn it off, but still I rise. 18:50.440 --> 18:53.760 Desperately, I bang my exhaust valve wide open with my chin. 18:53.760 --> 18:54.760 Too late. 18:54.760 --> 18:56.360 I'm too buoyant. 18:56.360 --> 19:00.720 Suddenly I'm brought up short. 19:00.720 --> 19:03.160 My fouled lifeline holds firm. 19:03.160 --> 19:09.160 As the excess air bleeds through the exhaust valve, I settle back to the atomar to another 19:09.160 --> 19:12.960 chance at three million dollars. 19:12.960 --> 19:17.640 I adjust the balance of the valves and look for the spot where my line fouled. 19:17.640 --> 19:18.640 I find it. 19:18.640 --> 19:31.520 Here, have some more coffee. 19:31.520 --> 19:33.000 Thanks. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.760 Oh man, that air smells good. 19:36.760 --> 19:39.200 Well, I guess that's that. 19:39.200 --> 19:41.200 What do you mean, that's that? 19:41.200 --> 19:43.200 Well, you're not going down there anymore are you? 19:43.200 --> 19:44.200 Of course I am. 19:44.200 --> 19:45.840 I'm a diver, not a tourist. 19:45.840 --> 19:48.880 That was a pretty rough go down there. 19:48.880 --> 19:51.320 Yes, it was. 19:51.320 --> 19:53.240 But there's also three million dollars down there. 19:53.240 --> 19:55.440 I'm not going to let a little mud bother me. 19:55.440 --> 19:56.440 Funny. 19:56.440 --> 19:57.440 What's funny? 19:57.440 --> 19:59.680 You calling it only a little mud. 19:59.680 --> 20:05.560 Yeah, I guess so. 20:05.560 --> 20:09.240 Now that you're going ahead, what's the next step? 20:09.240 --> 20:10.240 Blast. 20:10.240 --> 20:11.240 When? 20:11.240 --> 20:12.920 Tomorrow morning. 20:12.920 --> 20:15.000 How many charges do you think it'll take? 20:15.000 --> 20:17.280 About three. 20:17.280 --> 20:18.280 One thing bothers me. 20:18.280 --> 20:19.280 What's that? 20:19.280 --> 20:22.040 That gully the atomers in. 20:22.040 --> 20:24.920 Any chance of the sides caving in from the blast? 20:24.920 --> 20:26.680 That's not about that too. 20:26.680 --> 20:28.520 I don't think so, Carl. 20:28.520 --> 20:31.760 I'm going to use control charges. 20:31.760 --> 20:34.400 Most of the blast effect will channel into the plate. 20:34.400 --> 20:35.400 Okay. 20:35.400 --> 20:38.480 Why don't you turn in now? 20:38.480 --> 20:40.280 It's been a rough day. 20:40.280 --> 20:42.280 I think I will. 20:42.280 --> 20:43.720 What about you? 20:43.720 --> 20:45.480 I'll be there in a few minutes. 20:45.480 --> 20:46.480 Okay. 20:46.480 --> 20:47.480 Good night. 20:47.480 --> 20:48.480 Night, night. 20:48.480 --> 20:55.480 I had nightmares. 20:55.480 --> 21:02.320 Nightmares about mud. 21:02.320 --> 21:05.880 All night long I dreamed of sticky, gummy, slimy mud. 21:05.880 --> 21:09.880 Until it seemed that the whole world was one gigantic mud ball. 21:09.880 --> 21:15.440 Finally, I managed to get a few hours of restful sleep. 21:15.440 --> 21:16.440 Dreamless sleep. 21:16.440 --> 21:17.440 Welcome sleep. 21:17.440 --> 21:25.080 In the morning, I climbed into my rig and went down to set the first blast on the atomar. 21:25.080 --> 21:29.560 The water was clear and my lamp pierced through to the limit of its beam. 21:29.560 --> 21:33.320 I planted the charge against the entry port and went up to the salvage ship to help Carl 21:33.320 --> 21:35.400 with the detonation. 21:35.400 --> 21:39.320 We made the necessary arrangements and pulled the trigger. 21:39.320 --> 21:42.480 The next day was a repetition of the previous day. 21:42.480 --> 21:47.880 Six hours after the second blast, I went down to check the results. 21:47.880 --> 21:57.520 What did we do? 21:57.520 --> 21:59.520 Knocked off a little more than I expected. 21:59.520 --> 22:02.280 The cargo hold is exposed. 22:02.280 --> 22:06.200 Looks like there was only one bulkhead between it and the strong room. 22:06.200 --> 22:08.200 I'm going to check it. 22:08.200 --> 22:10.200 Okay, but don't take any chances. 22:10.200 --> 22:13.200 Relax, that gold is as good as a board right now. 22:13.200 --> 22:14.200 Topside. 22:14.200 --> 22:17.200 Yeah, go ahead. 22:17.200 --> 22:22.560 I know why the cargo manifest was secret. 22:22.560 --> 22:25.560 What'd you find? 22:25.560 --> 22:26.560 Dynamite. 22:26.560 --> 22:38.560 But why didn't the atomar blow up when she was hit? 22:38.560 --> 22:41.160 Well, the hole in her hull is aft the munitions hole. 22:41.160 --> 22:44.480 I mean, one of a dozen things could have diverted the shock. 22:44.480 --> 22:49.320 There was a main hole full of munitions and dynamite. 22:49.320 --> 22:50.880 No surprise to me. 22:50.880 --> 22:53.160 A cargo hold full of munitions isn't a surprise? 22:53.160 --> 22:54.600 Under ordinary conditions, yes. 22:54.600 --> 22:57.320 But under the conditions surrounding the voyage of the atomar, no. 22:57.320 --> 22:58.640 All right, I'll bite. 22:58.640 --> 22:59.640 What were the conditions? 22:59.640 --> 23:02.720 Well, first we know that she sailed in 1911, July 2nd. 23:02.720 --> 23:03.720 Well, what's that bet? 23:03.720 --> 23:04.720 I'm coming to that. 23:04.720 --> 23:10.360 On July 1st, a German warship, the Panther, sailed into the harbor of Agadir port of Morocco. 23:10.360 --> 23:13.480 I think I'm beginning to get the story. 23:13.480 --> 23:16.880 This was the incident that almost caused a war between France and Germany. 23:16.880 --> 23:17.880 On the button. 23:17.880 --> 23:21.560 Well, then the reason the atomar was on its way to Morocco was to deliver the essentials 23:21.560 --> 23:22.840 of war, money, and munitions. 23:22.840 --> 23:24.840 That's the way I got it figured. 23:24.840 --> 23:27.920 Well, now the secret manifest begins to make sense. 23:27.920 --> 23:28.920 Doesn't it, though? 23:28.920 --> 23:30.240 What do we do now? 23:30.240 --> 23:31.600 That's your job. 23:31.600 --> 23:32.600 One more blast. 23:32.600 --> 23:33.600 Are you nuts? 23:33.600 --> 23:35.720 The next blast might set off all ammunition. 23:35.720 --> 23:36.720 No, it wouldn't. 23:36.720 --> 23:38.680 Nick, that stuff's been underwater for over 40 years. 23:38.680 --> 23:40.920 Why, there wouldn't be one chance in a million of that happening. 23:40.920 --> 23:41.920 It happened once before. 23:41.920 --> 23:42.920 When? 23:42.920 --> 23:45.200 1930, the Artilio in the harbor of Kiburona. 23:45.200 --> 23:49.520 Oh, yeah, but the TNT in the hold of that wreck had only been underwater 13 years. 23:49.520 --> 23:51.080 1333, makes no difference. 23:51.080 --> 23:52.160 But there is a difference. 23:52.160 --> 23:53.920 That other stuff was only in 10 fathoms. 23:53.920 --> 23:55.640 It's 24 fathoms here. 23:55.640 --> 23:59.920 There's enough pressure down there to squash every shell, let alone seep into every crack. 23:59.920 --> 24:00.920 All right. 24:00.920 --> 24:03.400 What do you want to do? 24:03.400 --> 24:04.400 Blast. 24:04.400 --> 24:08.600 Even if it means planning two small charges and two separate trips, it'll still be faster 24:08.600 --> 24:09.600 than an underwater torch. 24:09.600 --> 24:11.720 They're pausing the whole wreck blows. 24:11.720 --> 24:16.080 Well, then you lose one-fifth of three million bucks. 24:16.080 --> 24:18.000 And you? 24:18.000 --> 24:20.720 I go back to South America. 24:20.720 --> 24:22.360 Well? 24:22.360 --> 24:23.680 Okay. 24:23.680 --> 24:25.880 Hate me. 24:25.880 --> 24:28.880 I'm greedy. 24:28.880 --> 24:33.600 Let's go. 24:33.600 --> 24:42.600 Now, you all set? 24:42.600 --> 24:45.640 All set. 24:45.640 --> 24:51.000 I set the explosives for an aft. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 Oh, good. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 One thing. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 Yeah, what? 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 How much electrical cable you got? 24:55.000 --> 24:56.000 Oh, a couple of thousand feet wide. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.000 Let's use it. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 We've got the buoy for a marker. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.200 Let's ease off as far as we can from the wreck just in case the cargo goes. 25:01.200 --> 25:02.200 Nothing's going to happen. 25:02.200 --> 25:03.200 I said let's move off. 25:03.200 --> 25:05.600 This is my ship and I give the orders. 25:05.600 --> 25:06.600 We stay. 25:06.600 --> 25:07.600 Aye, aye, sir. 25:07.600 --> 25:08.600 Gordon. 25:08.600 --> 25:09.600 Aye, sir. 25:09.600 --> 25:10.600 Make ready to blast. 25:10.600 --> 25:11.600 Ready. 25:11.600 --> 25:12.600 Let her go. 25:12.600 --> 25:13.600 Here she goes. 25:13.600 --> 25:16.600 She blew up. 25:16.600 --> 25:21.600 The atomar blew up. 25:21.600 --> 25:24.600 Hang on. 25:24.600 --> 25:28.560 Hang on. 25:28.560 --> 25:41.440 We didn't sink, but we might as well have. 25:41.440 --> 25:44.280 The salvage ship sprung every seam in her hull. 25:44.280 --> 25:48.640 Most of the gear was washed overboard as great gobs of mud spewed from the bottom rose into 25:48.640 --> 25:50.880 the air and splashed against us. 25:50.880 --> 25:54.760 It wasn't hard to imagine what happened on the bottom. 25:54.760 --> 25:56.960 The gully that cradled the atomar collapsed. 25:56.960 --> 26:02.440 The sides rolled down on the wreck bearing in under 20 feet of silt. 26:02.440 --> 26:06.120 What happened to the three million dollars is anybody's guess. 26:06.120 --> 26:10.640 Probably salted through all the muck 24-filems down. 26:10.640 --> 26:13.920 We managed to make it to dry dock for repairs. 26:13.920 --> 26:16.440 I never saw Carl again after that. 26:16.440 --> 26:17.440 Me? 26:17.440 --> 26:23.160 But if you want me, you'll have to write to Chief Petty Officer Larkin attached to under 26:23.160 --> 26:25.760 sea training New London, Connecticut. 26:25.760 --> 26:30.800 I'm eating three good meals a day, getting plenty of sunshine, and building up pension 26:30.800 --> 26:32.560 time. 26:32.560 --> 26:33.560 I think I'm content. 26:33.560 --> 26:47.080 As far as I'm concerned, you can have your monetary world. 26:47.080 --> 26:59.520 Suspense. 26:59.520 --> 27:04.040 And by Auto Light, the night star Mr. John Hodiac. 27:04.040 --> 27:08.800 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 27:08.800 --> 27:11.040 automotive electrical equipment. 27:11.040 --> 27:15.080 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:15.080 --> 27:19.560 That's why during the early months of this year, as we did a year ago, the Auto Light 27:19.560 --> 27:24.440 family will join in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products 27:24.440 --> 27:26.720 as original equipment. 27:26.720 --> 27:32.040 Our Auto Light family is a worldwide family and includes some 30,000 men and women in 27:32.040 --> 27:37.920 Auto Light plants in the United States, Canada, and many foreign countries, and the 18,000 27:37.920 --> 27:42.480 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light, as well as thousands 27:42.480 --> 27:47.240 of Auto Light distributors and dealers and the many leading manufacturers who use Auto 27:47.240 --> 27:50.360 Light products as original equipment. 27:50.360 --> 27:55.200 Our Auto Light family will salute the Hudson Motor Car Company on the next Auto Light Suspense 27:55.200 --> 27:56.600 television program. 27:56.600 --> 28:01.120 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on television so 28:01.120 --> 28:11.320 that you'll be sure to see this program. 28:11.320 --> 28:15.320 Next week, a true story with only names and places changed. 28:15.320 --> 28:20.120 A classic report on a famous bank robbery and murder in the Old West. 28:20.120 --> 28:23.000 It's called The Spencer Brothers. 28:23.000 --> 28:25.520 Our star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 28:25.520 --> 28:41.240 Next week on Suspense. 28:41.240 --> 28:45.920 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 28:45.920 --> 28:48.400 and conducted by Lutgluskin. 28:48.400 --> 28:53.000 Gold of the Anomar was written for Suspense by Ross Murray. 28:53.000 --> 28:58.200 In tonight's story, Joseph Kearns was heard as Carl, Clayton Post as Fred, and Charles 28:58.200 --> 29:01.200 Calvert as Gordon. 29:01.200 --> 29:07.920 John Hodiac is soon to be seen in Conquest of Cochise, a Columbia picture. 29:07.920 --> 29:18.000 And remember, next week, Mr. Richard Widmark in The Spencer Brothers. 29:18.000 --> 29:30.360 This is the CBS Radio Network.