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I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching into the ocean.

7 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:46:02 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It was the Shangri-la, and we were in the Sea of Japan. And my radar had jammed...

- And my homing signal was gone because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency, and so it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be.

- And I'm looking down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light.

- And then, suddenly, zap, everything shorts out right there in my cockpit.

- All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone and I can't even tell what my altitude is.

- I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching into the ocean.

- I look down there and then, in the darkness, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. It was the algae. Right.

- It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was just leading me home.

- Now, if my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd have ever been able to see that.

- So, you never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

- Okay. Spacecraft commander Jim Lovell, no stranger to emergency is he.

[...]

Apollo 13 Sound Clip

Apollo 13 poster

Voice quotes and sound clips from the movie Apollo 13 (1995). All waveform samples are in .wav and .mp3 format.

Actors: Tom Hanks (Jim Lovell), Bill Paxton (Fred Haise), Kevin Bacon (Jack Swigert), Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly), Ed Harris (Gene Kranz)

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