english: And he said there was coming soon, depending on the weather, but he'd let me know when, and so with about four days notice, he said to go to this beach south of Lisbon, and a little after 9, this guy will walk out of the water. (Laughter) And he'll be carrying a green nylon line, a lightweight line, called a messenger line, and that was the first link between sea and land, this link that would then be leveraged into this 9,000-mile path of light.
non_english: Povedal mi je da bo gradnja kmalu, odvisno od vremena, in mi bo sporočil kdaj. Tako mi je približno štiri dni vnaprej povedal, da naj grem na obalo  na jugu Lizbone. In se bo malo po deveti uri iz morja sprehodil ta mož. (Smeh) In bo imel v roki zeleno vrv iz najlona, lahko vrv, ki se imenuje kurirska vrv. In to je bil prvi člen med morjem in kopnim Ta člen, ki se bo kasneje razvil  v to 11.000 kilometrsko pot svetlobe.