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It would have astounded Peary to learn that by the late 1950s and early '60s, the vast, frozen top of the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce.

14 seconds sound clip from the The Atomic Submarine movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:01:59 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- It cost Commander Robert Peary 20 years of unremitting hardship and misery to reach the North Pole finally in 1909.

- It would have astounded Peary to learn that by the late 1950s and early '60s, the vast, frozen top of the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce.

- Not just in the skies, but also deep under the ice, in the frigid five-million-square-mile depths of the Arctic Ocean.

- Here, great passenger and cargo-carrying atomic submarines, glided by the dozens back and forth across the Pole...

- Until a series of mysterious undersea disasters threatened to close the Arctic route forever.

- The decisive moment came May 3rd at 1315 hours...

- The undersea atomic liner, Sturgeon, largest of them all, reached 87 degrees, 10 minutes North latitude, only a few miles from the North Pole itself.

[...]

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The Atomic Submarine Sound Clip

The Atomic Submarine

Memorable lines from The Atomic Submarine (1959 film), featuring audio clips and sfx.

Actors: Arthur Franz (Commander "Reef" Holloway), Dick Foran (Commander Dan Wendover)

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