Ah, yes they were submerged but both were using snorkels/scopes and therefore their surface position was marked.

The British submarine HMS Venturer was sent from the British submarine base at Lerwick. After German radio transmissions regarding U-864 were decrypted, Venturer was rerouted to intercept the U-boat. On 6 February, U-864 passed the Fedje area without being detected, but one of her engines began to misfire and she was ordered to return to Bergen. A signal stated that a new escort would be provided her at Hellisøy on 10 February. She made for there, but on 9 February, Venturer heard U-864's diesel engine noise. Venturer was not using active sonar, (ASDIC), to avoid betraying her position and spotted the U-boat's snorkel.

In an unusually long engagement for a submarine and in a situation for which neither crew had been trained, Venturer waited 45 minutes after making contact before going to action stations, waiting in vain for U-864 to surface and thus present an easier target. Upon realizing they were being followed by the British submarine and that their escort had still not arrived, U-864 began zig-zagging. Each submarine risked raising her periscope. After three hours, Venturer fired all four bow torpedo tubes at the U-boat's predicted position, beginning at 12:12 and at 17 second intervals (taking four minutes[citation needed] to reach their target), then dived suddenly to evade any retaliation from his opponent. U-864 heard the torpedoes coming and also dived deeper and turned away to avoid them, managing to avoid the first three but unknowingly steering into the path of the fourth. Imploding, she split in two, sinking with all hands and coming to rest in over 150 m (490 ft) of water, 2 nmi (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Fedje.[6]

In this movie, both subs were deeper than 20m and neither had a snorkel or scope to use as a reference.

But that U-864 does fit the bill.

Yeah, it's worth watching as long as you know it cannot be taken seriously.

You'll learn that when the Dirty Dozen show up to train on the u-boat, they are told they will have 3 weeks to learn, and that is viewed as "impossible!"

As far as i read U 864 was running surfaced when performing the zig zag course, being observed by the english sub alright.
Only when the english sub had fired its 4 torpedos, U 964 dived to evade at greater depth, but ran into the fourth torpedo. So one can hardly speak of a submerged duel?
There is obviously a fault in some report :hmmm:

Also the U 864 carried the aforementioned parts and plans and mercury, but no uranium or such. This was tried in another boat bound for Japan, with the appropriate hull name of U-234.

I cannot share your enthusiasm on this one. Yeah, the movie was good and these two hours were well spent but calling it a new/old classic its a bit exaggerating.

First of all, the movie lacks chemistry. It's like the director did not decide whether it would be a serious bit or the clinky one and therefore the movie balance in the middle without showing its full potential and character.

Secondary, I liked how they how actors handled the script but some performances were too blend and that's why the overall picture seems too uncertain.

I'll give this movie 7 out of 10 just becaye of that

^ fair enough :haha:

I think Neal wrote it with tongue-in-cheek, but as we all he strives for any U-boat/submarine film that pops up from the deep, whatever it's quality :arrgh!:

Well i have no idea when or if this ever hits the german cinema/TV/Netflix, but i will sure look out for it..

PU 239 is already a movie and a damn fine one at that.

I can't be the only one.

The only one thinking, will the ever come another sub related WWII war movie like Das Boot where the creator have thought more on historical, strategy and other things.

There are lots of good sub related action movies.

But a movie as good as and historical correct as Das Boot-will such a movie ever hit the big screen ?

Markus

Well, now I have to see it just to find out - I was sure it would be impossible to make a movie worse than U-571. :doh:

U571 was a godawful movie and this looks even worse,No wonder I watch foreign movie's


Greyhound was just bland,I couldn't care less if they all died, except the black cook I was a bit upset about him dying,Make a movie about PQ 17 not all of us are 17

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