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.
14 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:46:07 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- 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.
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