Dan:

On 3/20/03, U.S. troops invaded Iraq! Was that a war or just "Operation Freedom"? Isn't that what AH wanted to do? Free up the poor Chechs?

Aside from this, the main thrust of this thread is the film titled
"Submerged", right? So, I started to view it again, but after about 20 minutes of watching this trash, I had to shut it down......

Here are just a few goofs:

1. Opening scene, shipyard cranes in the background were never at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

2. Where are the periscope shears?

3. As they prepare to dive, a crewmember shuts a large circular watertight door. The SARGO-class boats had oval WT doors.

4. Here the boat is leaving the shipyard and the crew is wearing P-coats and officers are wearing khaki uniforms w/black jackets in
May?

5. Did you you see the main engines? Wow, where did they come from?

6. The Main Induction Valve is ordered shut by the Diving Offficer and a crewmember turns a 10" diameter handwheel. The Main Induction Valve is an 36" diameter "Poppet-type" valve with a
2-1/2'diameter stem and is hydraulically operated by the Chief-of-the-Watch at the hydraulic manifold in the Control Room. Shortly thereafter he orders "Shut down the engines." Those engines
must've sucked lots of air out of the boat before being shut down;
hell on the sinuses and eardrums

7. The Diving Officer orders "Flood ballast tanks 1 & 2 and the
indicator panel for the Kingston (ballast Flood) Valves shows "shut." How can a ballast tank be flooded with the flood valve shut? The same thing happens for MBT 3 and 4.

8. A crewmember calls out "Pressure in the boat." No one has ever bled high presssure air in the boat to check if the boat is tight
and with the engines running after the Main Induction has beern shut, how can he tell if there is presssure in the boat or a vacuum?"

9. The Diving Officer orders: "Flood Bow Buoyancy" (tank) and a crewmember turns two green 4" diameter handwheels. Bow Bouyancy tank is free flooding and is full at all times when the boat is submerged. It's an emergency tank generally used to get the bow up when forward and aft trim has been lost and used when surfacing the boat to get the bow up. It is blown with high-pressure
air by the auxiliaryman on watch in the Control Room.

10. Their ffirst dive is being timed by the Portsmouth Shipyard man
using two stop watches. The boat proceeds to 50', then to 100', all
the way down past 500' and the Diving Officer orders: "Level off at 600 feet." The safe operating depth for a SARGO-class boat is
250 feet.

After that major blooper, this is where I had to shut it off and go to the head and barf........

Hurrah for Hollywood! They ruined another good submarine story!

And have a nice day,

ROBERT M.