Talk:USS Blueback (SS-581)
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[edit] The Hunt for Red October
It has come to be believed that Blueback served as a stand-in for the Dallas in the emergency surfacing scene. This belief is false. If you watch the scene in slow motion - you can see water draining from the torpedo tube shutters (just below and forward of the sail). The B-girls (Navy slang for the Barbel class) do not have admidships tubes - they have bow tubes. Furthermore, one can compare the sail planes, and again - they do not match the planes of a B-girl. Elde 23:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
- Source? Because everything I have seen puts the USS Blueback as the sub that did that scene. PPGMD 18:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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- IMDb says both, "The USS Blueback features in the film. It is seen dramatically breaching the surface. Also, shots inside the Russian Alfa were taken in the Blueback's torpedo room", and, "During filming in 1989, the USS Houston, which was used as the USS Dallas in the movie,..."
- USS Houston (SSN-713) says, "Houston is an experienced movie actor, initially starring in a Navy recruiting film and then getting her "big break" in June 1989 with a part in The Hunt for Red October (where she played her sister ship Dallas).
- Houston's website says, "This classy lady has twice starred on the silver screen; initially in a Navy recruiting film and the[n] staring in the smash hit "The Hunt for Red October"."
- navsource.org has a picture of "Houston (SSN-713) broaching at full power, taken while filming "The Hunt for Red October" off the coast of Southern California, 1989." (It looks like a color version of the picture on wikipedia's Houston page.)
- —wwoods 21:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I am quite aware that many sources claim that it's Blueback. For the reasons I gave above - it cannot possibly be Blueback. Elde 23:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] YouTube video
I deleted the link to the YouTube video - as the submarine in the video lacks the superstructure ('turtleback') that the Barbels have, and the sail is both too far back and the wrong shape. Almost certainly the submarine in the video is a 688. Elde 23:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
