Voted The Most Realistic American Submarine Movie

there is a world known only to a few a world open only to the initiated it's a dangerous complex and forbidding world it is the world of submarines few ships are as intriguing or mysterious as the submarine seeing it this way is like catching a glimpse of a wild thing on the edge of its domain soon this ship will dive and disappear and for months at a time she will sail an unseen world [Music] the men on board are as intriguing as the ship they sail they are members of a fraternity cloaked in mystique notorious for their silence about where they go and what they do what is this world like why would a man choose to come aboard a ship like this and sail into such an isolated and remote existence for the first time in 20 years the united states navy has allowed a civilian film crew to go along on a submarine patrol this film is the result [Music] [Music] below decks in the belly of the beast the control room the nerve center of a submarine the ship's vital systems helm periscopes navigation weapons are squeezed into a space about the size of a one-car garage here the submariners seem to rely on a different set of sensors their perception of the world comes from computer displays geometric projections and an orientation to the surroundings that's rooted in the imagination officer deck last man down hatch secured may not have sure heard all right cam the ship is ready for dive current sounding six five five favorites to check for the chart questions for the submergent ship very well officer deck submerge the ship emergency ship all right sir diving officer submerge the ship for the ship by sir you're watching one mc dive dive two blasts and dive alarm drive tire on the one mc dive dive two glass on the driving alarm god die right [Music] for outsiders the redundancy of communication might seem like overkill one would assume that diving the submarine would be routine three four but no maneuver or operation here can ever be routine 130 men are beginning a lonely descent into an environment as foreign and as hostile as outer space you want five zero feet in our main battle fan the ship is as intricate as any spacecraft um all there is with the added risk of a nuclear power plant just 30 yards out put two scopes under lower number two so every communication on board is acknowledged and verified and verified again because every action must be conspicuous and conscious there's no margin for railroad seven eight thousand watch all conditions normal on the dive beast normal diabolic officer deck conditions normal on a dive farewell diving officer captain at one five zero feet trim satisfaction very well let's go 300 feet ahead standard very feet ahead standard hi sir helm all headstander officer make it at 300 feet sir the ship has been submerged the next set of events throughout the rest of the ship the sailors not on watch are getting reacquainted with life in a steel tube 360 feet long and 33 feet wide because of the limited space there's an intimacy here that's unique to the military the crew is courteous considerate gentle for a military outfit but how else could these men get along for the months they'll spend submerged there are no days off no phone calls home no windows to daydream through for as long as this patrol lasts this tube is their world submariners can turn any nook into a private retreat because when it comes right down to it the only true private space on a submarine is the space between one's ears this is where you're gonna be sleeping your responsibility you got to take care of it if you don't i'm going to come a hunch down the chief of the boat the man in charge of all the enlisted men is showing a new man just how little space he has to call his own a six by three by two foot cubicle pillowcase and a white blanket fold the foot of the bung all your clothes are supposed to fit in this bunk pants you take with you there's no stowage any place else but therapist for your stuff okay sleeping on a submarine is something of an art form first you have to get into bed step two is getting comfortable most the racks are too short for somebody's like six three six four i had physical two years ago i was six four now i'm saying i'm 6'3 so i'm shrinking somewhere you must also learn to sleep with constant activity around your bunk ship operations go on 24 hours a day seven days a week the space is limited because hardware takes priority over human accommodation consider that the nuclear propulsion system takes up the back third of the ship no living quarters in the stern just secrets our crew could not film commander bruce lemkin captain of the rickover this is the captain it's good to be back underway at sea underway on time and we're ahead of schedule right now check your spaces check the stowage hear the procedures we'll be doing a lot of things including battle stations be ready [Music] [Music] i hate this we're exercising the ship at large angles to uh work on the proficiency of the shift control party as well as to check stowage throughout the ship right now we're at a 30 degree downward pretty dramatic as you can see maneuvers like this are an essential part of getting the ship ready for patrol the point is to shake everything loose now rather than later on and the rickover might be stalking or eluding an adversary die make your death 200 feet 3-0 something as simple as a coffee can falling against the hull can be heard for miles underwater [Music] keeping quiet is critical to avoiding detection and for a submarine detection could mean death the submarine's only advantage over other ships is itself it has no no armor protection it has very limited weapons uh it has pretty good speed but it cannot run a helicopter it's it's a small vulnerable target if it can be located the secrecy that uh that is part of the silent service comes simply from the fact that the stealth is the only advantage they have and they must protect it from patrol now the rickover is ready but ready for what what is her mission in an age of peaceful coexistence an age when keeping the peace depends upon convincing adversaries that war is unwinnable because what a submarine does it creates in the mind of the adversary both certainly and uncertainty he knows what terrible things you can do that's the certainty of it all but a terrible uncertainty in his own mind as to where you'll do it and when the great thing about a submarine is that you can literally defend in depth because you can put submarines way way out maybe quite close to the enemy's doorstep especially now you could never do that with surface ships or airplanes because they would be provocative and before you knew it you'd be at war for real but submarines can sit out there far out as you like on the enemy's doorstep if you really feel that's where they ought to be without being provocative i'm instantly ready for war soup i have a new contact eighty on a destiny submarine there was only one way to sense the outside world sound concerning new contact destination two zero bearing zero six eight s minus two one we're atf on top one that's our whole classification warship what's up i just picked up a contact sierra 2-0 a hostile uh warship surface warship firing uh zero five six here well man battle station man battle station's eye sir chief watcher over the ymca man battle station man battle stations this is an all hands drill the rickover is going to sneak up on a hostile surface ship and sinker this is the captain i have the khan lieutenant commander haney retains the deck we've got a uh possible surface warship preparing about zero five six hi sir zero five six diving officer make it up one five zero feet one five zero feet this kind of warfare is unlike anything else this ship is on its own there are no distant commanders to check with no other outfits guarding their flank these men are alone and unsupported potential fire control tracking party we've got a hostile surface warship designated sierra 2-0 now master 2-0 bearing zero five six who but a very enterprising independent guy irreverent in a military sense is going to want to run around in a place where he has no prospect of assistance no prosper no prospect of assistance and that's just not just one once in a while that is his whole reason for being just to be able to do that now it takes a particularly independent kind of guy officer douglas who went blind zero to the right to generation more course very well up scope most of the activity here is cerebral submarine warfare is a mind game with many independent minds attempting to merge into one trump's only the captain is in a position to piece together all the suggestions and information his crew can provide he's the one who must picture the entire battlefield in his mind's eye maybe a little higher yes sir based on classification use a 120 foot mass that height recompute the range the crew has to have absolute confidence that this one guy who is who's engaged in acts that they really can't divide they have to have absolute confidence in that guy and they want to very smart they really want to believe that that skipper is the best there is mark down scope range 0.85 divisions in high range eleven thousand one thousand yards angle on the valve port two zero checks firing point procedures master two zero two three procedures two three solution ready weapons ready final bearing and shoot master two zero zero four five speed 5.0 [Music] upscale no matter how good your technology is how wonderful these weapons are how tough your hull is at the end of the day it is the man the person who wins or loses the battle can't recommend a left 4-0 degree steer to the weapon now and in two world wars your navy my navy we found that men and morale counted far more than material and machinery explosion to the northeast rough bearing zero four seven the character of the modern submariner is shaped as much by his history as by this complex environment and while bravery and valor are part of this history there is also a dark side evident from the start a time when both the man and his machine were considered immoral [Music] first of all it was underwater underhand and damned unenglish that's what they said in parliament about it so that's a pretty good indication of what the public thought underhand because you couldn't you were hitting below the belt you know you were coming you you were supposed in those days to declare war sail your fleets together open fire and you'd pound each other to bits but it wasn't that good suddenly and suddenly these german u-boats uh came along and started sinking things and that was first evidence merely a month after world war one broke out in 1914 by the german u9 a pathetic submarine really driven by a paraphernalia who came out of uh of harbor and found three british cruisers the abukir the cressi and the home patrolling in stately fashion perfect station people of course looking very smart as one of those german uber he sank those three british causes with a greater loss of life than that suffered by admiral lord nelson's entire fleet at the battle of trafalgar uh a century before but the plain fact is it brought to the admiralty's mind for the first thing that the submarine was a real threat no longer were they our waters or your waters or german waters they were nobody's particular waters so long as a submarine might be underneath those waters during the course of two world wars submarines turned ocean into no man's land nowhere was their impact more evident than in the pacific war american submariners only two percent of the us navy's total forces sank one half of japan's merchant shipping fleet and a third of the imperial navy's [Applause] warships but for their efforts the submariners paid a heavy price well after you made an attack every time they would come down the torpedo wakes and you get depth charged and the depth charge is a very unpleasant experience so then you would surface and make another end round there was never any hesitancy at all on going in again and the crew was all for it knowing they're going to get depth charged but it's the old it's the old business of of um well general mcarthur is a duty honor before i don't know what it was but anyway you do your duty in spite of the fact and anybody who didn't get scared of the depth charge attack was a damn fool [Applause] a lot of people took kept the diary i didn't keep a diary and i didn't take any pictures because i i really didn't expect to survive the war i mean we had we knew that uh one out of five patrols people were lost i mean that was your life expectancy when you get after five patrols while you figure your numbers about ready to come up you know anti-submarine forces took full advantage of the submarine's vulnerability submarines after all were merely surface ships that could submerge for only a few hours their underwater speed was little more than a crawl as a result the submarine navy lost a higher percentage of its men than any other branch of service by war's end naval tacticians knew that submarine performance had to be improved instead it was revolutionized born alongside a conventional type the atom submarine nautilus displays her size as the navy takes the wraps off its prized possession for newsreel cameramen and here are the intricate controls that guide the huge craft like a baby carriage these pictures were made during a cruise from the nautilus home port of groton connecticut to new york already the nautilus has traveled 21 000 miles since commissioning most of it submerged although the nautilus nautilus was a fabulous development it was a true submarine that could proceed at high speed for great distances where submarines before were only ships surface ships that could submerge be hard to detect then but and operate for short distances we had a ship that was immediately better than anything for combat purposes a completely new era in sea warfare opens this ship with its global range and ultimate stealth was a weapon ideally suited for the emerging strategies of cold war defense remarkably the revolutionary power plant was conceived designed and made operational without incident in less than eight years we really had support if we needed some technical information done if you phoned there was somebody to talk to at four in the morning a truck would roll or a plane would fly to get you apart or anything you needed that was a hard driving take a chance get it done outfit and why was it that way it was all on account of that man rickover hyman g rickover one of the most enigmatic and powerful leaders in u.s military history he not only mastered the complexities of putting nuclear power on submarines but he also mastered the complexities of the federal bureaucracy which would fund his vision at the height of his power rickover made every decision there was to make about the developing nuclear program from the design of the reactor to the makeup of the men who would operate and command his ships his point-blank personality is legendary i think you want this down should i start in all over again [Music] the project will be under the direction of the aec reactor development division and my boss dr lawrence halfstad has assigned the immediate responsibility to me the admiral had total control over the officers in the program and i'm not sure he didn't keep a close eye on the illicit people as well what it was was a a grilling in which he attempted to elicit some of your personal characteristics what kind of books do you read how many have you read in the last year what do you do in your spare time and why do you have spare time why aren't you working all the time he made it as really as uncomfortable for the interviewee as he possibly could the trouble with you is you want easy answers but you don't know the proper questions perhaps the question should be what should be the role of educated or intellectual people in the united states now does that sound like a better question you can pick any letter of the alphabet and put down an adjective and it'll apply to wreck over it'll be arrogant belligerent contentious all the way z to zealot whatever you want it'll apply yeah let me tell you that his principal legacy in my judgment was to reinforce many of the fundamental instincts that have served submarine force well all along the sense of personal responsibility that's a critical part of being a submarine skipper that business of a personal responsibility which cannot be shared cannot be shared is part of his legacy why didn't you think about it at the time and start something well unfortunately the time that you started in nuclear power in 1946 i was being born so i'm i i i admit that i'm coming to the issue late all right i know i defer to you but we have felt this responsibility but there are many things that should be done that aren't done i said lou who is this character tell me about them i got a definition a wreck over then in 1948 that went like this there's a part that's good there's a part that's bad and there's a part you wouldn't believe and in my whole interaction with rickor from 48 through 74 and later i never heard a better definition than that he was a great man this is basic enlisted submarine school groton connecticut here would-be submariners get their first taste of the complex world rickover created captain green these young men are all volunteers who have made it through the submarine navy's initial selection process uh the main thing the navy looks for in choosing a submariner was intelligence they want the smartest possible people they can get because the more intelligent the person the more things he can do and the more and the better he's going to do them [Music] most of these men are just a few months out of school actual service on a submarine is just a hazy dream most of them haven't seen as much of submarines as this film has shown you all right guys essentially what you're looking at here right now is a ship's controlled diving and diving trainer to prepare these sailors for the intricacies of submarine the navy has developed an apprentice system and some elaborate simulators what you're going to learn here today is essentially how to dive and drive your submarine and this trainer petty officer keith swallow has ridden the boats for 14 years okay kegel drop on in the inboard chair matuzik drop into the outboard chair buckle up all right here's where we're at you got a 360 foot long multi-million dollar submarine right in your hands we're going to crank up a flank belt we're going to bring her to periscope depth and you're going to reach and maintain periscope depth you ready to do it yeah all right take control i think what you're doing wrong here is you're putting too much angle on those planes remember we're hauling it we're booking through the water flank valve minimize use of the planes and it'll be a lot easier to maintain trim angle don't go no more than five to ten degrees either rise or dive on the planes and you'll find out it's easier to catch the bubble and lock it right in there letting in the torpedo room letting in the torpedo room option of the deck we can't maintain ordered gap recommend emergency surface diving officer emergency surface shin [Applause] surface surface surface okay hang her in there hang her in there watch that trim angle get her down get her down give me a little bit bring it down a little bit more all right brace yourselves we're going to approach remember we still got flooding going on back there in that engine room we don't know what the status is on that this is exactly the way it's going to happen on the boat guys you're going to come right up she's going to pop right out of the water and drop back in you see guys we're not like surface craft we have a problem out there we can't call in the coast guard to help us we can't put life rafts into the water normally when a casualty occurs on a submarine we're underwater we're down deep and the only thing that's going to save us and that boat is the capability of the crew there is an element of psychological stress involved with this first of all because you're talking a submarine here and no matter how good i am as an instructor and describing for them uh what's what's going to be required of them it's still hard for them to visualize actual duty on a submarine okay and there's that fear of the unknown the major part of our submarine budget is going to be spent on you guys submarine crews schooling extensive training damage control training they're going to pump some big bucks into you guys but it's going to pay off one day out there in the ocean one remote instance where a casualty goes down with the training you've got you might just be the guy that's going to be there when it starts and with your training you'll be able to jump right on that casualty you'll be able to save your life and save your ship alright what you're looking at here is the damage control wet trainer one thing i want you to notice it's a small confined area i'm going to put you down here at the start of the casualty and we're going to turn on water flooding to simulate flooding on a submarine all right do a good job take your time safety is priority one make it happen how do you all right we all ready to go yep okay what i'd like to start them out with is a port and starboard lube oil let them get the initial report and sound the collision alarm off and then we'll hit them with the asw suction floating in the engine here we go cut it up [Applause] put a man in charge at the scene get up there and do it himself the water level's coming up move on it the submarine has only got one enemy and that is the sea itself pressing in inexorably at something like a quarter of a ton on every square inch of his hull thereby that is the implacable enemy when he has a a war enemy the soviets or somebody else who's firing shots of him it's not like being a soldier in the field afraid of being blown up on a mine or being killed by a rifle shot or hit by a shell it's not like that all his enemies trying to do is to let the real enemy get in get at him to let that sea into the hull now from that comes the fact that submarines had to be very much more alert and they're fighting a war every second of the day they're fighting a war against the greatest enemy of all the sea itself scene control training time out all stop all right let me get in there and yell out in there and tell him to regroup and we'll try it again all right come on over here hey officer miller listen to me come here yeah you're the man in charge at the scene right you got a flooding casualty it's not enough that you just assigned people to go fight it you gotta follow up on it you got two guys on that flank that have been standing up there picking their damn noses for the last two and a half minutes when you got 700 gallons a minute coming into the trainer if you see that they're not getting the job done they come off the job and get two more guys up there you ready to start again chief all right let's stick it to him hit him with the flange chief plans on i should make believers out of them all right now they know what flooding is welcome to the submarine force gentlemen uh 600 gallons and rising you work with each other day in and day out on these boats you're in a very enclosed environment and the teamwork is a big part of it working together getting along together you're going to hear arguments and you're going to hear bickering but in the final analysis no one holds a grudge forever and believe me there's no secrets on a submarine none you having problems with the wife or the girlfriend eventually it's going to go out and guess what the rest of the crew is going to help you solve that problem to the point where there's going to be times where you think you're serving on that submarine with all your older brothers and all your uncles and that's the big difference between us and the surface navy they don't get that tight together out there in the surface fleet on a submarine we do back on board the rickover now four months since leaving home port five one nine five five one nine battleground five one nine checks all right that's good standing back you have a center of gravity here and normally the center of buoyancy which is the amount of this is the trial period for the apprentice seaman on board a time to determine if they're cut out for this life hydraulic glass fire class amplifiers are combustible materials they'll be accepted into it these messages are published so that you can take a quick look and find out for instance these lighted buoys have been changed this is the change in charlie probably is there a better quality of sailor in the submarine force than anywhere else we make them that way i personally believe that the screening process that a guy goes through to get to submarines is uh is a lot different than a guy just going through a regular ship but usually we get the cream of the crop these are the most experienced enlisted men on board the chiefs if someone wants to know what it means to be a submariner these are the people to ask then once a kid gets here and we get them on board um you know we basically show them that hey we are the best and then they kind of live up to the reputation oh they wash out which does happen even though they're here they most of times the guys don't make it past the first year they're gone let's go harry honaker a veteran of 27 years in submarines is the highest ranking enlisted man chief of the boat first permission to relieve the outboard station and of course but the rickover's apprentice seaman harry is mentor and guide on their journey to become qualified submariners peer pressure is terrible for these young kids you're probably only talking maybe 10 percent of the navy submarine sailors and now that 10 percent to probably come to submarine force probably two percent of those never make it i'm going down there now then if he orders a turn your bubble is going to start rising on you it's a world of its own you can't you can't just step into it and say i'm part of it you have to prove yourself to order depth you have to qualify you have to have the knowledge we're a little above depth correct okay bring your bubble down to a half down okay salazar i'm going to give you depth control okay you maintain a zero bubble zero bubble okay you gotta get on course too you gotta do two things at the same time now you gotta watch this you gotta watch the gyro why'd you choose submarines it's the elite it's the best you know you hear about it it's mysterious when you come in the navy you don't know anything about it like myself i didn't know anything about it at all my instructor said hey you got a lot of potential go submarines and you come out here and your counterparts in the fleet don't really understand what you do because they have first classes second class to do the job but on the submarine you're the guy that makes the things happen uh the captain depends on you to make things happen uh that's the big big difference between us and surfer ships too is we we stand here for weeks no letters no mail nothing no tv no tv no radio broadcast nothing what's good about it it's rewarding it's good to know you're the cream of the crowd it's it's also a close-knit roof i mean these other ships talk about being like a family well we really are i know everybody's name on this ship and on the carriers and stuff there's no way you can memorize 5 000 names and here i know everybody well how about all this stuff i hear about it being secret and silent and mysterious and all that stuff is that just a lot of is that a lot of hokum or is that true and if it is why we can't tell you no we told you that we didn't try that but that would happen no it's definitely secret definitely a lot of secrets down here we couldn't afford to give up secrets what we do out here you know very few of our uh family members know uh they get to come down and see the ship but they don't really understand it and we can't show them a lot but they see what's going on and they still have no idea what you do once you leave and basically you're going to leave and you're going to show back up they have a rough idea when but i can tell my wife where i'm going and when she can expect a phone call or a letter from me my wife she gets phone calls from my parents and everything else and she won't even tell them over the phone they don't understand well you guys seem to get along so well is that is that part of what makes this thing work no this is for the film that's the only guy that makes it work oh coming out of the gallery fine again another unannounced all hands drill this time a mock fire in the galley but only a handful of men know that this is a drill fire is one of the most terrifying of potential casualties on a submarine if the flames don't get you the toxic fumes will [Music] in there [Music] up in control the captain is facing critical questions while bringing the ship to the surface for air what are the chances of collision with a surface ship can he surface the ship in these waters does he have a choice okay once your deck uh come up to uh 580 captain 6.0 there's heavy smoke in towards the part of middle level the fire is out reflex watch station with a man with pressurized fire hose we had to use the range guard system and two pressurized fire hoses to extinguish the fire there are no injured personnel damage appears to be loaded to the deep fire thermostat now the scene reports the smoke is clear from the area also atmospheres are normal by cam sir very well uh all the answer will be abs the smoke has cleared throughout the ship atmospheres are normal all hands remove eavs there's the captain took us five minutes to put out that fire that's entirely too long as you know the fire is the worst casualty we can have we need to work on that one we intend to uh do that one later today be ready i expect this kind of fire to be out in two or three minutes carry on zero five five left of course very well uh monster deck secure ventilation dining officer secure midway secure ventilator guys cheaper to watch everybody on this ship is a volunteer everybody with very hard jobs to do and these guys work 18-hour days seven days a week at sea but they volunteered for it and they stay with it very few guys drop out of submarines but why why do these men keep coming back to the danger the confinement the isolation i think was the excitement that probably drew most of us the submarine force the mistake mistake that's good excitement definitely but we found a lot of things a lot most of us found what we was missing along a long time ago family the feeling being needed and wanted i remember that one time in cruz messi was asking people you know did you come from a divorce you know your parents divorced you come from broken home and he's like right about seven to eight out of ten so they're seeking something that they've never had before or had and lost and went back for the duration of the submarine six-month plus patrol it's virtually impossible for the crew to communicate with their families submarines rarely send messages out because radio signals are an easy clue to detection the only tidbits of news the crew ever receives from home are intermittent radio messages called family grants james like congratulate me and get my dolphins she says she's glad to see that i'm not pond scum anymore then the cat's got fleas you only get 36 words and you leave out the abs and the dust and you have to put these things together they're kind of uh it's like a little code that everybody always has worked out you you sit there and you read them you say well what does she really mean when she says this and squadron will screen anything out of it so you don't get a family gram with one whole sentence missing out of it and it doesn't make no sense half the time most of the guys all they want to know is everything okay that's all they really care about miss you sending you christian's easter picture hope everything on rickover is good and your spirits are high we'll start planting shrubs grass and backyard soon got job kmart like it got your tax papers miss you mike said hi i'm doing fine don't worry that's basically what you want to hear you want to hear those things says click my mind is still good for another three or four weeks and uh it just keeps or it keeps us going it's something that keeps us going and and tells us hey everybody's fine home we keep doing our job love you miss you terry hard work brings best rewards best of luck from proud hugs kisses love you bunches laura how does kristina eight months old so she's doubled in age since she left that's amazing well only a couple months ago [Music] so [Music] do [Music] a lot easier [Music] so [Music] up [Music] well there was a guy named charles he was walking into control he was looking all around and he said i don't know what's going on he said man you know i gotta stand another watch but i got those blues because we've been gone so long he's got those s's and blues [Music] he's very very blue this is last mess on an ss [Music] i don't know if you want this on filming that but uh the submariner in my opinion is a person that is insensitive hardcore uh strong will strong mind and you'll find that the longer you stay in the submarine force you become even harder it becomes a like a shell on you things a lot of people can't penetrate your little world in particular my case i find that it is my shell is very hard i don't let people penetrate my world because i don't want nobody penetrating my world every time you talk to somebody you sit down you start talking to some stranger and you're always worried always worry that he's gonna be asking the wrong questions and you can't say nothing and what are you going to see oh next plunge let me be back oh a few months later so you have to keep everything to yourself always it's everything's always locked up so and it has a tendency to build and continue to grow within you and it just builds that little shell around you so you have to i don't know the person that thinks a person can withstand holding things in a lot so you you always have a lot of secrets a lot of things you talk about within each other but you can't just you can't talk to other okay on the peop but you can't talk to somebody else that's cheap stuff for you you're not as old as the cops we were talking about going home i ended up wow look at that thing oh i'd hate to see the body on one of those things in a dark alley jesus [Music] right point six all right you got enough damage i'm ready let's go something has caught the sonar team's attention take a look at cr5 that's pretty high bearing on the last turn this contact could be another submarine and in the underwater arena the most formidable adversary for one submarine is another submarine unlike a confrontation with a surface ship on its sub versus sub it's hard to know who is the hunter and who's the haunted [Music] hey else your neck what do you yeah good cr5 air bearing 212. uh fire control believes he's at about 4 000 yards actually confirming the presence of another submarine is a long complicated process of matching indicators with hunches about what might be happening outside the hall well you got plenty of room i want your maneuver and get another leg on it two one zero points what we got all right sir sir five bears about two one zero right he's thirty thousand yards so we've got two ranges here huh uh yes sir captain how many legs uh this is the fourth flag right now okay okay we're gonna know the range now sir it looks pretty good sir concurs the fire control solution good well what do you think the last declan range was uh time 1852 42 i think it's 000 yards pretty good range got a lot of change and barrier across my side come back around on it he's that far away huh i think he is yeah okay i'm driving too much you've got maybe on any one day throughout the world what should we say 200 maybe 300 submarines going about their business now it's a very terrible thing to say because this is a deadly serious business believe me it is deadly serious or it could be but in fact it's a whole lot of fun we have one contact first of all it's a mathematical problem and a computer problem and it's a lot of fun picking up little fragments of information trying to put them together to determine what the other guy's doing is he really a submarine or is he something else perhaps i'm making a mistake or could there be two guys out there we haven't heard him for some time is that him making noise over there again or is it some other guys coming this is a fascinating problem of a blind man's father and and hell it's fun it is fun came to a course about 0-5-1 come war well it wouldn't be quite so much fun because the first thing you might know about it might be a very loud bang constantly receiving hull pocket from the contact classified submerged hostile by nature's sound [Music] very well this kind of potential battle this silent war in an unseen world is unique to our age with it comes an unparalleled kind of tension today i think the tension is going to be even greater on the skipper yeah we had i think great i had great confidence so we're going to survive to get out back into service and now he's not going to know when weapons are coming at and we generally knew we could hear the screws overhead you're going to have long-range weapons fired at you you have homing weapons firing at you and you're going to be dependent upon your man reading instruments properly it's not like you're focusing on a thing you can see that you're more scientific yeah much more scientific right so science is i hate to use the term star wars but it's an undersea star wars environment and atmosphere really and it could be you know that you're already killed and you just haven't found it out yet that weapon is going and you're not going to be able to get away from it and that's the problem that you're facing that all the time now you know so it's a different thing so ours reclassified them as a submerged submarine right 337. as outsiders looking in it's hard to shake the feeling that this is such an unnatural world for a man to be in the question of why these men willingly go into such a dangerous environment is still puzzling certainly patriotism plays a part but is service to one's country reason enough the men acknowledge that they find a sense of belonging here and pride in being members of a selective and secretive fraternity and there is a certain allure to the intellectual challenge of their undersea mind games still given these reasons most of us would not choose to be sealed up in one of these tubes [Music] how then does one make sense of what these men do perhaps by simply admitting that these men are different something in their makeup attracts them to this life maybe submarining is the only life for them certainly once this world grabs them it does not easily let them go anyone who knows a submariner as well as anyone can ever know a submariner will tell you that even when he retires he never really leaves the boats [Music] you

Channel: David Hoffman

Views: 1,626,205

Rating: 4.8851805 out of 5

Keywords: Tom Clancy, the Hunt for red October, Submarines, submariners, U.S. Navy, military history, David Hoffman filmmaker, military documentary, submarine documentary, Cold War, submarine Navy, San Francisco submarine, Navy, American Navy, Naval history, World War II submarines, Rickover, attack sub, subs, Military, Vietnam, finances, GDP, trump, Navy Adm., Navy stories, insurance, eBay collectible, eBay military

Id: 7Qt7dyhB-jg

Length: 56min 11sec (3371 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 09 2018

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[u/Trevor51253]

Barely recognized Tom Clancy without the "USS IOWA" hat on