Pac Fleet DSRVs at Ballast Point

Two Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles idle at high alert in San Diego's Ballast Point, their cylindrical steel hulls—pressurized for crushing depths, fitted with trunk-mating collars and manipulator arms—thrum with latent power. Nancy pitches their desperate bid to Nancy in the Situation Room's charged hush: plunge through Yellow Sea hazards to hook the silenced U.S.S. Portland, crew extraction hanging by geopolitics' thread as Leo absorbs the high-wire stakes.