![]() The rescue team cuts through and the group climb out of the upturned hull. Belle Rosen has a heart attack and dies before the rescue team can reach her. The oxygen supply begins to give out, but after much waiting, they are finally found. Martin takes charge of the group and they make their way into a propeller shaft where the steel hull is at its thinnest. ![]() Her fellow survivors aren't quite sure what to make of this revelation. Mary Kinsale, an English spinster, screams in grief and claims that they were to be married. An explosion rocks the ship, and Reverend Scott, in an insane rage, denounces God, offers himself as a sacrifice, and commits suicide. She chooses an unstable route and falls to her death, impaled on a piece of sharp steel. During the difficult climb, Linda Rogo rebels and attempts to find her own way. After their rest they see the way out-five decks up, on top of a fractured steel wall they name "Mount Poseidon". In the darkness Linda Rogo makes a move on the Reverend. They take time to rest and save the batteries on their recently acquired flashlights. Upon their arrival, they find the engine room, or "Hell" as Mr. champion, swims through the corridor and finds the passage to get them to the other side. They find the corridor to the engine room, which is completely submerged. The Reverend, having found a Turkish oiler, guides the other survivors through Broadway to the stern. At this point his mother, Jane Shelby, breaks down and vents her long-held disgust and hatred for her husband. Susan rejoins the group and tells them nothing of what has happened.Īfter an intense search, they make the painful decision to move on without Robin. But Herbert, realizing the consequences of his actions, panics and runs off and falls to his probable doom. Susan talks with Herbert, who is remorseful and ashamed, and grows to like him. While searching for her young brother, Susan is raped by a young, terrified crew member named Herbert. New York Police Detective Mike Rogo finds The Beamer passed out, intoxicated, and Pamela refuses to leave him. After the panic, Scott's group goes in search of The Beamer, Pamela, and Robin, who are missing. When the ship's emergency lighting suddenly goes out, a number of crew members panic and stampede they are trampled, or killed by falling over stairway openings or into a large pit where a boiler tore through several decks of the upturned ship. ![]() Young Robin Shelby ventures off to find the bathroom while Tony "The Beamer" Bates and his girlfriend Pamela find the liquor closet. The posse breaks for a while whilst they look for supplies. One of the stewards fears the lockers that hold the anchor chains will have flooded, and suggests that they try for the engine room.Īfter climbing two upside-down stairways, the group comes upon "Broadway", a wide service corridor that runs the length of the ship and connects to the engine room. There is a great debate about whether to try to reach one of the propeller shafts at the stern, or to go forward to the bow. Those survivors choosing to follow Scott climb a Christmas tree to ascend into the galley area where they meet some stewards and kitchen crew. Those stuck within the dining saloon are unwilling to follow the Reverend, and stay behind. Starting from the upper deck dining room, preacher Reverend Frank "Buzz" Scott leads a small group of (often unwilling) followers towards the keel of the ship, trying to avoid the rising water level and other such hazards. The ship capsizes as it falls into the sudden void caused by the quake displacing millions of gallons of seawater. On December 26, the Poseidon is overturned when it has the misfortune of being directly above the location of an undersea earthquake. The ship is on her first North Atlantic crossing under new ownership, celebrated with a month long Christmas voyage from Lisbon to African and South American ports. ![]() Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.įormerly the RMS Atlantis, the SS Poseidon is a luxury ocean liner from the golden age of travel, converted to a single-class, combination cargo-cruise liner. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969.
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