It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was just leading me home.
9 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:46:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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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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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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