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HOOKS?

Since when did the enemy use hooks to "catch" submarines? That's a new one to me. Also seems impractical, since you'd need to have 500 feet of chain per hook, which is a LOT of chain.

I suspect the writer of the movie just made that one up.


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In his audio commentary, Twohy says that the hooks really were a WW2 submarine warfare technic. But according to him, it was used only by the Japanese.

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Why 500 feet? Submarines in WW2 stayed quite close to the surface when they weren't on it, you only need to submerge to disappear from view and the deeper you go the more danger you place the sub in. Secondly, you may be thinking about fishing trawlers being dragged under by nuclear submarines in the past few decades because back in WW2 again the mass was the other way around, subs were many many times smaller than most surface warships and a destroyer could easily drag a sub to the surface if it was equipped to do so.



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I never heard of them either -- interesting after al ths time somone finds something new about WWII warfare.

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Even if they did. Did you see how quickly they made like 5 passes with those hooks. It should have taken them a lot longer to turn around and take another pass at them.

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Hooks have long been used to find things on the bottom. I find it hard to believe, however, they would have done the damage shown in the film. In fact, all the combat shown in this movie is hard to understand. US submarines did very little in the Atlantic in WWII, and I have to wonder where one might operate where it would be subject to German surface ship attack in the first place. I could go on and on about this, because of the problems with the combat portrayed here.

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I did a lil research on the hooks because I was surprised to see them as well. I found they were used some in WW1 ... and they were experimented with by the Japanese in WW2. In the end they were deemed impractical as a ship would have to go very slow to get them deep enough.

That said ... as this was not a serious film ... I can deal with the fallacy as it was pretty cool. All in all I found this film entertaining.

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Seems like they could grab onto part of the sub and do some damage.
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