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Trivia: There were actually 2 US submarines that contributed to the movie. The first one assigned had to be loaned a part for its distilling plant from the USS Houston to get underway, but ultimately did not perform. USS Houston was reassigned to support the movie.

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Trivia: The scene where the "DALLAS" is shown "leaping" out of the water is actually USS HOUSTON just outside the Straits of Juan Defuca, 600 yards off the Starboard side of a US Frigate, conducting an intentional full speed emergency blow that was practiced 6 times to get the timing and positioning right for the 6 cameras arrayed on the surface warship. Each practice was done without an actual emergency blow, the submarine "drove" to the surface. On the final run the HOUSTON alerted the crew 1 minute before actually initiating the emergency blow. Positioning was done without the benefit of GPS, which was not available.

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Trivia: The "weather" shown during Jack Ryan's HELO drop was all artificially added. During the entire HELO drop shoot, off Port Angeles in the Strait of Juan De Fuca, it was uncharacteristically warm and sunny.

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Trivia: Throughout the shooting of the Jack Ryan HELO drop scene, the OOD would set the submarine up on specified course and speed, then duck down to prevent interfering with the scene. At one point the "Dallas XO" actually fell over the side of the sail because the stunt man's harness broke - it was his personal harness, not a real Navy safety harness. The OOD immediately jumped up, announced "Man overboard", realised the stuntman had only fallen to the top of the port sailplane and stopped the submarine. The stuntman - dazed, slowly rolled over, swore a couple of times and hauled himself (with help) back into the cockpit. He was provided with a ship's safety harness (that he ended up taking with him) and we set up to do the scene again. It was successfully completed.

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