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The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
- Awards
- 11 nominations
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Jo
- (as Aunjanue Ellis)
Theo Nicholas Pagones
- FC Mellegrano
- (as Theo Pagones)
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- Writer
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- TriviaBrazilian diver Alberto José do Nascimento was the only one that supported Brashear since the beginning in the team, but was ignored in the movie and replaced by different characters along the film
- GoofsThe bomb was found at 2500+ feet by submersibles. Recovery was attempted but failed. The bomb was re-located at nearly 3000 feet by submersibles. Hard-hat diving was limited to 350 feet, therefore divers could not be used in the recovery until it was raised to about 100 feet by submersibles, so divers could attach recovery cables to the bomb and raise it from the water. The recovery ships were USS Petrel and USS Cascade.
- Quotes
Billy Sunday: The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero.
- Crazy creditsThe woman in the detox center is listed as "Pinch-Faced Woman at Detox Center"
- Alternate versionsDVD includes several deleted scenes cut from the final film:
- Billy lies drunk on a beach and is caught by Military Police; the film then cuts to the opening scene showing just why he is in handcuffs.
- Carl finds Pappy's dog and he makes a white officer wash the poor animal in lye because carl touched it.
- an alternate ending showing just what exactly happened to Billy
- SoundtracksAnchors Aweigh
Written by Charles A. Zimmerman
Arranged by Will Schaefer
Courtesy of Associated Production Music
Featured review
The movie tells the story of a Professional Navy Man.
This film is an excellent military movie. It may not be an excellent Hollywood Movie, but that does not matter. Hollywood has a reputation of sacrificing accuracy for good entertainment, but that is not the case with this movie. Other reviewers have found this movie to be too slow for their taste, but as a retired Soldier I appreciate the pace the movie crew deliberately took to tell their story as completely as possible given the two hours and nine minutes allotted. The story itself has been told and retold several times over, but it remains for a professional soldier and an African American at that to report on the story as presented by the movie crew, and as it presents the US Navy to the world. The story of Brashear's work to become a Navy Diver, and his life as a Navy Diver beyond his graduation, is not the only story that is presented. There I also the story of how Master Chief Petty Officer Sunday defied the illegal order of his Commanding Officer that Petty Officer 2nd Class Brashear not be passed in his test dive no matter how well he did, and paid the price of a loss of one Stripe and a change of assignment. It also told the true story how Brashear found the third Hydrogen Bombs lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain in the 1950's, and how he saved the life of another seaman who was in the line of the snapped running line that would have snapped him in two if Brashear had not shoved him out of the way and took the shot himself. This was a complex story that was worth telling, and I will admit that two hours and nine minutes was not enough to tell the full story, and I can tell from the deleted scenes on the DVD that the crew tried their best to tell a story as full as possible. As a professional soldier, I was proud to see such a great story told in such a comprehensive manner, and to see the traditions and honor of the navy preserved in such a natural and full manner.
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- cseon
- Feb 11, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $32,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $48,818,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,339,465
- Nov 12, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $82,343,495
- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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