Thank you.
After the operation,
we return by way of the venous system
until we reach the base of the neck,
where we'll be removed
right here. With a hypodermic.
How will you know
where the sub is at any moment?
Dr Michaels is a circulatory specialist
and will act as your navigator.
He'll know where you are and you can
communicate directly with us by wireless.
Also the sub is nuclear powered. We'll track it
just as we would any radioactive tracer.
There'll be surgeons standing by
to remove you immediately
should anything happen.
ln any event,
you must be out within 60 minutes.
After that, you're in danger of attack.
Attack? Who? Or should l say what from?
Benes's natural defenses.
White corpuscles, antibodies.
You see, once you begin to grow,
you become a menace to the body
and you'll trigger them off.
And there may be other, unknown, factors.
We can't be certain of anything.
Any further questions? Anybody?
- Just one, General.
- What's that?
Where do l get a cab back to town?
Dr Michaels,
proceed to the sterilization section.
Yes, sir.
Will you follow me?
How much can a man give to his country?
Your attention, please.
Make the final preparations.
Heart.
How's it look, Henry?
Holdнng steady. 32 per mнnute.
Respiration.
Jack, what's the report?
Respнratнon нs down to sнx a mнnute.
l wouldn't take hнm down any further.
Hypothermia.
Any problems, Dr Sawyer?
No, sнr.
We're holdнng hнm at 28 degrees Centнgrade.
- How do we stand?
- Ready.
They're now entering
the sterilization corridor, sir.
Please board and check
all your equнpment нmmedнately.
Here's the particle, sir.
- Everything aboard?
- All squared away.
Dr Michaels.
- Yes?
- Here's your chart table right here.
All the maps and charts
are in sequence from left to right.
- And here's your checklist.
- Dr Duval and l will check the charts.
Fine. Mr Grant?
- This is your wireless station here.
- Good.
- Ocular motor nerve.
- l see.
- Need any help, skipper?
- Oh, yeah. We'll save some time.
Open this, would you? Set it down there.
- Where? On the deck here?
- Yeah, right there.
- That's radioactive material.
- lt's atomic fuel.
- ls it all right to open it?
- Perfectly safe.
There's a microscopic
radioactive particle inside.
Nothing big enough
to be seen with the naked eye.
lf it's no military secret, how can a sub
run on a microscopic particle?
They can't reduce nuclear fuel.
But once the reactor's been miniaturized,
a microscopic particle should put out
enough energy to activate it.
That's cutting it close for a perfect fit.
Well, it should work, theoretically.
lf it doesn't, the whole mission's off.
You see, this craft is nuclear powered.
All except for your wireless.
All in all, quite a canoe.
Designed for piscatorial research:
spawning habits of deep-sea fish.
That reminds me,
l'd better spawn a radio message.
Test message from the Proteus, sir.
''Miss Peterson has smiled.''
Well, that's an auspicious sign.
Confirm receiving.
Captain?
How will you be able to follow my charts
from up there?
There's no power on now,
but once there is...
May l have this chart, please?
You just place the chart here and it
will come through on that repeater.
- Repeater?
- Yeah, the devi...
Come on, l'll show you.
- There, that's it.
- Oh, yes.
lt all seems quite simple to operate.
Actually, it is, although the controls
are highly sophisticated.
Look here.
There's a button and a switch for everything.
Bet you're pretty handy around the house.
Can you cook?
We're pushing oxygen today.
l'll have some laughing gas.
You're not looking forward to it?
lt's not exactly a pleasure cruise.
l think it's very exciting.
We're going to see things
no one has ever seen before.
Not just something under a microscope.
- Think about it.
- That's the trouble, l am.
- Being shrunk!
- You may learn to like it.
Excuse me.
For a nice young lady, you play
with the damnedest toys, Miss