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100 Things I learned from Watching Black Sea... (SPOILERS)

posted 10 years ago by EternalIndemnity
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I think the movie was exciting but it definitely deserves one of these lists. I was surprised there wasn't one already made. So at the risk of offending those who liked the movie a lot, here goes!

1. You can get a full Russian and British submarine crew to join you on a very hazardous mission without telling them what the reward is until they are already deep down under the sea.

2. When you have been sitting for several pints in a pub with your unemployed mates and one of them suddenly remembers that he knows where a submarine full of gold is located, there is no need to be suspicious about his motives.

3. Bringing a psychopath onto a submarine is worth the risk if he is a really good diver.

4. Killing a crew member is the best way to get a submarine to stop.

5. It is better to force the submarine to stop by killing a crew member, when you are already in the very treacherous waters you wanted to avoid.

6. If someone is about to drown because their belt is stuck in a submarine vault, they will think it is a better idea to die than to have to remove the belt from the pants or to take the pants off.

7. An experienced Russian submarine engineer who complains when being forced to be assisted by clueless 18 year old on life threatening tasks, should not be taken seriously.

8. When an inexperienced and clueless 18 year old shows clearly that he can not remember to count to 3 and then 2, it is a good idea to give him a task that involves those things and that could mean life or death, and the loss of a fortune for everyone involved.

9. If you have spent so much time working that your wife divorced you and you have not seen your son for years, it is okay to feel really betrayed and sorry for yourself when you get fired.

10. If there is a giant blast in a small space you do not have to worry if you are British as only Russians can be killed by it.

[–] MadSci 10 years ago

I'm pretty sure that diesel engines can't run at 60 meters under the surface. I realize they had snorkel technology to take in air, but I believe that was at periscope depth. You can't burn hydrocarbons without oxygen.

-dougl

[–] benman46 10 years ago

God not another 100 things list, whatever happened to originality.

[–] targa9 9 years ago

what are you talking about? Many of these are quite original.

[–] targa9 9 years ago

did the submarine dive before they were told about the money? I thought it was before they went under.

[–] targa9 9 years ago

37. There is no emergency lever.

[–] targa9 9 years ago

I meant emergency chamber

[–] targa9 9 years ago

38. Oxygen turns into chlorine gas if kept bottled up for 70 years.

[–] mafausseboite 9 years ago

39. If you're stuck in a submarine since a few days, running out of air and water, chain some guys of your crew and eat them.

[–] ljriffel 9 years ago

40. Submarine crankshafts are like magic. Besides being basically interchangeable they are not even attached to the pistons as all other crankshafts on earth are!

[–] BIGBYRD 9 years ago

Just for the record they called it the "main driveshaft". Which would be the shaft going from the electric motor assembly to the propeller. As you mention what they retrieved and installed was a crankshaft. One not even large enough to be of use on any diesel/electric submarine.

It was stated that battery capacity was only capable of 70% of the full storage. After the fire, we're told that hey had power for 36 hours(I'm assuming they mean only lighting/life support, etc.). I'm guessing that would still be enough to get it off the bottom. Lastly, its also stated that the "main ballast is ruptured". That would make it very difficult or impossible to raise and maneuver the submarine, especially through that canyon.

Bobby B. Byrd
Greensboro,NC

[–] al-izzi 9 years ago

41. When hopelessly trapped in a doomed u-boat 350 meters below the first thing that runs out is not air or water, but food! Sadly, the workaround the crew.found by cannibalism did not last them 70 years, hence the absence of a Robinson Crusoe-like 90-year old man-eating nazi sailor whose lungs adapted to breathing chlorine instead of Oxygen in a fast lane evolutionary mutation that only this movie could have the nerve to introduce. Maybe an idea for the sequel?

[–] Eligius1 9 years ago

There's no need to write and draw a 'Mad' magazine parody for this one. The film's funny as it is!

[–] benilana 9 years ago

42. An almost-18-year-old hungry, homeless kid is a suitable replacement for your former submarine-experienced coworker.
43. As an English actor playing a Scotsman, be sure to butcher the accent so badly that you sound more like one of the Russian characters (Seriously, I thought Jude Law's accent was Russian until I realized he couldn't speak the language. I only learned he was supposed to be Scottish from reading the message boards).

[–] morganakastevesmith 9 years ago

44. Being a shady corporation, invest in a salvage operation with a bum captain, psychopaths, and a teenager. Then put them all on a $hi##y submarine with no modern technology and trick them into finding lost Nazi gold at the bottom of the sea on behalf of a foreign government.