Tale of the Sunken Sub

Once whizzing through the murky depths,
    our mighty little Lynx,
responding to the controllers commands
    but that is where it got jinxed.

You see, the yellow submarine
    got wedged beside a beam
The tether then was pulling taut
    and the driver thought it seemed

that something was up with the small submarine
    Surely it would fit
It got into that tight spot once
    it should get out of it.

Unfortunately he didn't know
    the tether had been moved
by current and by motion of the sub
    now it would be proved

That the tether pulling tight
    was only causing the sub to be
cemented deep down inbetween a pipe
    and the bottom of the sea.

And once the sub was cemented in
    the tether began to be cut
By a beam of metal slightly above
    the subs oceanic rut.

The winds began to howl,
    and the seas began to roll
The rocking of the boat
    was working only toward one goal

Suddenly the cameras died,
    The lights went immediately dark.
And somehow everybody knew
    The tether had caused a spark.

And now the sub was lying dead
    at the bottom of the mud.
The tether had been cut clean through,
    sub functioned like a dud.

Our swimming camera was sunk,
    our tool was far too deep
to easily extract from the bed
    where for a week it would sleep.

But it was going nowhere fast
    and soon we would return
to recover the small yellow submarine
    and from this experience learn

That knowing exactly where you have been
    will help you to get away
from the clutches of possibly dangerous pits
    and back to the light of day.


(I may edit the verses slightly if I think of better wording, but I wanted to get this down while it was on my mind.)