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*** Additionally, once a fire has been reported onboard a warship that fire is treated as still in-progress until ''after'' a) the damage control team has reported to the bridge that the fire is confirmed out and b) the spot where the fire occurred has been kept under "reflash watch" for a period of time after it is extinguished to confirm that the fire hasn't restarted. Due to the fact that heat dissipates slowly from inside enclosed metal compartments, it is entirely possible for a fire that's been put out to spontaneously start up all over again... because the temperature in the compartment is still too high, and flammable materials are still present. For every fire onboard ship, even a minor one, there is at least one guy with a fire extinguisher doing nothing but sitting and watching that spot for half an hour or more after the damage control party has finished putting out the immediate fire.
** The entire conflict between Ramsey and Hunter prior to the missile launch crisis is artificially inflated for pure rule of drama. In real life, if a CO and an XO have disagreements the absolute last thing either officer will do is air those disagreements anywhere except to each other in private, let alone mutter them to the enlisted men behind each other's backs. They will do these even if they absolutely despise each other, because undermining a senior officer's authority in public indirectly damages every other officer's authority as well -- including their own. Hunter's derogatory comments about Ramsay to both the messcook in the galley and the Chief of the Boat should have had him relieved of his post about two minutes after they were first brought to Ramsay's attention.
*** This one is defensible because in order to react to it, the captain first has to be told about it. A lower-ranking enlisted man like the messcook is almost certainly going to decide that the best idea when the two most senior officers on the boat are getting into a vendetta is to do absolutely nothing to draw attention to himself, in addition to the fact that he has no chance to speak to the captain without going through the entire chain of command above him first -- which includes the XO. The Chief of the Boat, on the other hand, has absolutely nothing to fear by getting involved (not only is there very little you can threaten a master chief of his seniority with unless he actually commits a serious violation of regs, but bringing word to the captain of things going wrong is actually ''part of his job'') and can easily get in to see the captain at any time -- but ''because'' he works directly with the captain every day, its entirely possible that COB agreed with Hunter's opinion of him.
** There are at least three separate points in the movie where the submarine sustains damage that would logically require the next scene to be "fade to black, loud crunching noises, roll credits". Of course, this being a movie, the damage is repaired by sailors jiggling the controls and heroically banging on things. In reality? If your engine room is flooded, your sub is dead. If you've lost reactor power, battery power, and the ability to do an emergency blow of your ballast tanks all simultaneously, your sub is dead. If you have water in the people tank in both the rear section and the front section simultaneously, then no matter what else is going on your sub is dead, dead, so very very dead.
** The entire scene with the Weapons Officer and the key is pure plot contrivance. In reality, a minimum of three men would have access to that safe. One of those men would be the guy who was trying to threaten Weaps to open that safe at gunpoint. The captain has access to EVERYTHING, that's why he's the captain.
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