Offers an account of two submarines during World War II in 1943 in the South Pacific Ocean. The USS Sculpin was attacked by a Japanese destroyer which subsequently picked up the American sailors. Weeks later the USS Sailfish came upon a Japanese aircraft carrier and did not know that their countrymen from the Sculpin were on board that carrier and trying to escape. Years earlier half the lives of a Sculpin crew were saved by the Sailfish but not this time.