EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - NIGHT

A WILD STORM -- sixty-foot SWELLS. A Japanese FISHING BOAT tossed in the nightmare. The CREW -- whose CRIES we've heard -- fights fiercely to keep a boat afloat.

But this is a losing battle -- and here comes the WAVE that will kill them all -- and these men know it. In this very moment, crossing the threshold to their death, the fishing boat is suddenly LIFTED OUT OF THE WATER --

-- they look up -- and SUPERMAN IS THERE, straining to hold the boat, flying them into the sky --

Superman carries the boat JUST PAST THE ENORMOUS DEATH WAVE -- the thing LICKS the hull of the boat --