gray lady down

Director: david greene

Actor: charlton heston,david carradine,stacy keach,ned beatty

Data Published: Wed Mar 22 1978

Genres: Adventure,Drama,History,Thriller

Key Words: underwater scene,self sacrifice,nuclear submarine,submarine,collision

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077629/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Lady_Down

Description: Gray Lady Down is a movie starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, and Stacy Keach. A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Plot: Aging, respected Captain Paul Blanchard (Heston) is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS Neptune, is struck by a Norwegian freighter enroute to New York in heavy fog. With the engine room flooded and its main propulsion disabled, the Neptune sinks to a depth of 1,450 feet (442 meters or approx. 241.6 fathoms) on a canyon ledge above the ocean floor. A United States Navy rescue force, commanded by Captain Bennett (Keach), arrives on the scene, but Neptune is subsequently rolled by a gravity slide to a greater angle that does not allow the Navy's Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) to complete its work. A small experimental submersible, Snark, is brought in to assist with the rescue. Snark is very capable, but run by an obscene caricature nonconformist U.S. Navy officer misfit, Captain Gates (Carradine). The tiny submersible is the only hope for a rescue. Ultimately, the surviving members of the crew are rescued by the DSRV, thanks to Gates sacrificing himself by using the Snark to jam the Neptune in place as another gravity slide begins while the rescue is taking place. Moments later the gravity slide pushes the Neptune and the Snark off the ledge and into the ocean's abyss. The film ends with a somber Blanchard climbing out of the DSRV and being welcomed aboard the rescue ship USS Pigeon by Bennett and his officers.