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The pursuit ships hover for a time . Sixty foot waves show only scattered debris , no signs of life . They break off . 1:55:24 - Czech submarin-guerilla vessel picks up coded recovery signal , makes toward the jettisoned escape pod , small and coffin-shaped . 3:27:02 - Submarin vessel recovers German pilot , returns to a safer depth and slinks carefully back to guerilla base . 5:56:00 - A large underwater door , thoroughly camouflaged , opens in the root of tower-like Manta Island . Vessel enters , continues forward , then slowly rises to the surface of a vast , underground hollow .