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Originally Posted by ImBatman
Shortly after picking up Jack Ryan, the Dallas gets a message to attack the Red October. While Ryan argues with the Captain, the Captain orders a dive to 1200 ft. Once he reacquires the Red October, he orders a depth change back to 500-600 ft or so. What was the point of the dive to 1200 ft? Better acoustics for passive sonar? Or just a hollywood thing to get a scene with the sub creaking from the water pressure? Something else?
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all Hollywood.
did you catch the line by Captain Tupolev: lower the antenna. take us to 1200 meters. (that's just about 4,000 ft.)
Read the book. as good as the movie is, the book is better. and you get to read Clancy rather than the screenwriters-version of Clancy.
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