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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.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- How's it going, Fred?

- I'm okay.

[...]

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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