This thing, as I said, all happened in a flash. There was shouting, there was running about....
"Stop the machinery!" some one yelled.
"Reverse your engine!"
Tom felt himself thrust aside, lost his balance and fell into the deposit of wet sand. The pouring out of this had ceased.
"Don't let him do that! He's crazy!" some one shrieked.
"Reverse the engine; he'll come up. Don't dive—you! You'll be chewed to pieces."
"Who dived?" said Tom, scrambling to his feet.
"The body will come up when the suction stops."
"Both bodies, you mean; that crazy fool dived."
"They won't come up if they're wedged in. Keep her going—reversed."