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

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:30 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.

- According to the official reports, the next phase of the life-and-death drama occurred May 10 in Washington at a hush-hush super-secret meeting of the Arctic theater war room.

- Gentlemen, this is the man we've been waiting for.

- The Skipper of the atom killer sub, Tiger Shark. Commander Dan Wendover.

[...]

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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