Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

The Price of Doom - S1-E5

Factual error: Crane clears an Air Force jet to land at the Antarctic ice station. But the station is located on a completely snow-covered sheet of ice with no runways. How and where could it possibly land? (00:27:30)

Jean G

The Phantom Strikes - S2-E17

Factual error: The Seaview's military history computers need an upgrade. The derelict German sub is identified as a WWI ship, the U444, supposedly sunk in 1918. There were only 167 U-boats in WWI. U444 wasn't built until 1942. And the sub's design is definitely WWII, not WWI. (00:02:30)

Jean G

Turn Back the Clock - S1-E7

Factual error: The diving bell descends to 4000 feet, where no light can penetrate and the ocean around them should be pitch black. But some strange, unseen phenomenon is lighting up the bell quite nicely for the camera. (00:21:15)

Jean G

The Phantom Strikes - S2-E17

Factual error: The derelict sub is said to have suddenly moved itself more than 30,000 sea miles from its original position. This makes no sense. The entire circumference of the Earth is only 22,000 sea miles. And if the sub had somehow circled the globe plus an additional 8,000 sea miles, there'd be no way to tell that it hadn't simply moved just 8,000 miles. (00:08:10)

Jean G

Killers of the Deep - S2-E15

Factual error: Due to the extensive use of borrowed footage from the WWII film "The Enemy Below," the 1970s crew of the renegade sub (who are not German and who wore civilian clothes in most shots) suddenly acquire 1940s German U-boat caps and uniforms. (00:30:00)

Jean G

No Way Out - S1-E12

Factual error: Victor is crawling around through Seaview's incredibly roomy ventilation ducts, pursued by several crewmen. But the air conditioning that's fluttering little ribbons on all the vent covers isn't, for some reason, disturbing a hair on any of their heads. (00:44:25)

Jean G

Show generally

Factual error: "Invaders": The ship's doctor claims that carbon 14 dating proves the man from the undersea capsule to be 20 million years old. Not likely. Carbon 14 testing can date once-living matter only within the last 70,000 years, and is generally considered accurate only within the last 50,000. (00:23:00)

Jean G

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