He can avoid the main stream.
2 seconds sound clip from the Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:57:52.265 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Never mind! The crab is heading straight for him. We've got to get him out before it's too late.
- Martha!
- I'm gonna light the oil back there.
- Come on, he knows what he's doing.
- No.
- He can avoid the main stream.
- Of all of us, I thought Karl would be the one to...
- That fire won't hold it very long.
- I don't think it matters much anymore, Hank.
- Well, just so it holds it long enough for me to get one message away, just one more S.O.S.
[...]