Das Boot Directors Cut (Part 1/2): Unveiling the Brilliance of this WW2 Movie #dasboot #warmovies

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Hey, everybody, and welcome back to Jay’s retro reactions. Today we’re going to be reacting to one of my favorite all time war movies, which is Das Boot. Das Boot is based off a novel, and I’ve never actually read the novel. I would love to hear from anybody who has, if

It’s worth it, but I do know that the author really, really disliked this film for a number of reasons, some of which I’ll point out during the commentary. The version we’re watching today was actually recut in 1997, and it’s the director’s cut of Das Boot.

The original version of the film came out in 1981 and was the highest grossing foreign language film ever at that time and actually recorded bigger box office receipts in the US for its german language version than the english dubbed version did. However, it is worth noting that all bar

One of the actors in the german language version could speak English and actually dubbed their own voices into the english version. Today, however, we’re going to be watching german language version, as I prefer to always watch films in their original language where possible. I haven’t seen the director’s cut before.

It’s three and a half hours long, so it’s quite a substantial movie, and I may have to cut it into two or three parts just to get it past copyright on YouTube, but otherwise, I’m really looking forward to this. I haven’t seen this movie, I think, in about six

Years, and as I said, I’ve never seen the director’s cut version, so I’m really looking forward to it. Anyways, as always, enough of me talking, and let’s get on with the show, guys. La Rochelle, France. Autumn, 1941. Germany’s vaunted uboat fleet, with which Hitler hoped to blockade and Starve out Britain, is

Beginning to suffer its first major setbacks. British freighters are now sailing the Atlantic with stronger and more effective destroyer escorts, inflicting heavy losses on the uboats. Nevertheless, german high command orders more and more uboats with even younger crews into battle from their ports in occupied France. The battle for control of the

Atlantic is turning against the Germans. 40,000 german sailors served on uboats during World War II, and 30,000 never returned. So you had a three in four chance, or 75% chance, of getting killed. I believe in German. They were part of the Kriegs Marines, I think they were called.

Someone correct me in the comments if I’m wrong Again, someone please let me know if the book is worth reading if you’ve read it. I do like reading military novels, so I’d be interested. And similar to Talvisota and the Unknown Soldier, this novel is actually loosely based on real characters.

And I’ll talk a little bit about those real characters when we get to them. So all the sailors enjoying a bit of shore leave. Not surprised if you have to be three months out at sea, which I presume they are as well. That’s usually the duration of a naval mission.

So you see this guy who’s drunk. He actually was really drunk for the filming of this scene. And interestingly, it’s one of the few movies where they shot in sequence. And the reason they had to do that was so that the beard growth of the sailors would

Look natural throughout the progression of the movie. Why was that? Why were they not allowed call Germany before 10:00? I’m presuming in the evening, I’m trying to think before 10:00 I don’t get it. There’s nothing militarily I can think of for having a reason such as that. He got molested by the crew?

Exactly. You’re not special. Everyone gets molested by the crew. Seemingly, but they are sailors. And you know what to say about sailors. Apologies to any naval people watching. Apologies. It was actually this guy who was really drunk. Not the other guy I pointed out, not the redhead guy, but it was this guy.

He absolutely got pissed just to do this scene. That’s the sort of method acting I could get behind myself, actually. I wouldn’t mind getting paid to get drunk to do a scene. Don’t know if I’d remember my lines, but I’d give it a go. Any directors out there fancy a

Chance on me, let me know. He’s slagging off Hitler. He seems to be a bit war weary and disgruntled with the war and with Hitler, but I presume those were very dangerous words at that time. Okay, he’s copped on and started slagging off Churchill. Probably wise. Now, as I said, I don’t do

Any research before watching these movies. And if I’ve seen it before or read stuff about it, my comments are based on what I remember. And what, if I’m correct, the author of this novel that the movie is based on was actually in the u boat service during World War Ii.

That scene was one of the scenes he really hated this movie for. Because he said no u boat crew would get drunk and slag off his comrades and Hitler and strategy like that. So he thought that was ridiculous for a start. So kind of again, similar to the Unknown Soldier

We seem to have, the experienced officers and NCOs. We have the glory hunting young officer that we just met, and we have the ordinary guy who’s just there to do his duty, doesn’t really care about Germany and the great Reich, etc. And again, this scene is another one

The author hated, because again, he said a U-Boat crew member wouldn’t have behaved like this. He seems to have been an extreme stick in the mud when it came to the artistic interpretation of his work for this movie. This guy just randomly firing his pistol around drunk. Great.

I don’t care if it’s war in most services, I think he would be put in prison for that man! Great. Lying on the floor in the bathroom, covered in his own puke. I’d love to say I’ve never been there, but unfortunately in my youth, I was a couple of times!.

You ain’t screwing anybody, mate, without puke hanging off your mouth there. So one interesting fact I do know is there was only one original u boat of this type left in the world at the time of making this film. So they couldn’t use it because it was too noisy.

So they actually got plans from, I think it was the Chicago Science and Technology museum for the U boat design and got the original submarine builder. The company still existed to build two full scale models of the uboat, one that could travel to sea and one that could be used in the studio.

But the specs, et cetera, were designed exactly as the original Uboat was. Now, if anyone has read the novel, please let me know if they really did take a war correspondent on board. Because I know this movie and the novel are a kind of faction. They’re based on real characters with

Some fictional characters mixed in. Because if they did take a journalist on board, that journalist is really brave. Because with a 75% casualty rate, there’s a good chance you weren’t coming back. Okay, this guy isn’t going. He was just getting his medal. Has he completed his tour of duty or something?

So now that we see the boat in the open sea, I’ll share one interesting fact I do know about this movie. That boat sunk in the middle of filming because it was essentially a hollow shell, and there was a bit of a storm which had the boat sunk, so they

Had to delay filming while they raised the boat back up and then had to stick it back together using wooden planks for the remainder of the movie. Lovely. You have to share a bed. I’m not sure I’d be up for that. In general, I don’t think I’d ever fancy doing submarine service.

It’s not the claustrophobia or anything that would get to me. I just prefer to be in a service where I have some control over my own survival in the event of the worst. Unfortunately, in a submarine, you get hit, you sink. There’s no way out because the pressure would rip you apart.

That’s if you could get out. You’d probably drown in the tin can! At least with an aircraft, you can bail out with a parachute. In the army, you can try and leg it or shoot the guys attacking you. Yeah, for me, no! Just no! Let me know your thoughts.

Guys, would you serve in a submarine during this time? And if so, why would you? Interesting comment by the captain there. Again, going back to a comment I made previously on the Unknown Soldier. The average age of a soldier who dies in war is 19. One thing I do remember from when I

Watched it before is the contrast and the state of the meals as the movie progresses. You can see here, it looks very nice. There’s salad, there’s steak. But I do remember as it moves on, it’s like moldy bread and sausage. So that guy’s comment there about working on his parents plantation.

He’s based on a real character. He grew up in Mexico, where his parents owned a plantation. He immigrated back to Germany in the 1930s and joined the Kriegs Marine just before the war broke out. He then survived the war, and he ended up moving back to Mexico straight after.

So what, have they spotted something, or has someone spotted them? It sounds like someone has spotted them since he’s shouting alarm. Probably an aircraft. I do know biplanes were used quite heavily in bombing submarines. And I’m trying to remember the name of the model, but it won’t come to me.

If anyone knows, please let me know in the comments what the RAF biplane model was they used to attack submarines. Sorry, that’s my age, guys. I can’t always recall things as quickly as I used to. It was just a drill. Clever by the captain. The poor journalist looks like he shit himself.

Not that I blame him, I probably would have too. Just knowing the casualty rates. Anytime they get attacked, I’d be going, this is probably it. And this guy’s fucking with the journalist as well, just to make him scared. Even more scared than he was. You see the guy sniggering in the background?

The one thing I’ve noticed about this captain, he loves pushing everything to the limit. The boats limits, the crews limits, which is kind of good, actually, because he knows then in battle what everyone can withstand and what the boat can withstand. So this guy’s dating a local french

Girl from Rochelle, which obviously would have been dangerous for her, particularly post war. Great. He’s knocked her up. He has problems. Indeed. But what I don’t understand is she wants a kid and it could be a threat to her from the resistance. Move her back to Germany, dude, before you ship out.

But he’s young and naive, so I’ll give him a break. This guy’s all prim and proper with his dining, isn’t he? This guy, as I said, is full of glory and full of propaganda. And the captain’s wise enough to tell him, cop on, this is reality. Don’t believe everything you hear.

So the Tipperary song is an irish song. It’s from World War I. And Tipperary is a county in Ireland and it became famous in World War I as just kind of the anthem of the british army, probably because they heard it from the irish soldiers in that army at the time.

I think something like 250,000 irish people fought for the british army in World War I. The reason for that was because the British had promised us home rule if we supported them during the war. So all the independence and nationalist leaders, the vast majority, about 80% of them, told their people, go

And join up, because if we help the British, they’ll give us home rule afterwards. Didn’t quite work out that way. But that’s for a different time and a different story. Yeah. Can you imagine a tin can full of, like, what, 180 to 200 men barely washing! I wouldn’t fancy that stink, man!

So you see how the sailors keep chewing on these lemons? We’ve seen it at least twice already. The reason the british sailors were called Limeys was because in the old sailboat days, to stop them from getting scurvy, the british sailors and british navy used to carry lots of limes and suck on

The limes to help prevent. Because of the vitamin C, which helps prevent scurvy. The same reason these guys are doing it. But that’s why the british sailors ended up being called Limeys for anyone who doesn’t know! Of course, they were using the infamous enigma machine, which Alan

Turing, famous for the Turing rule for artificial intelligence, and one of the founders of computer science, helped crack in Bletchley Circle. So while the Germans thought they were using fully secure, encrypted communication, in fact, they weren’t. And the Allies knew most of their plans before most of the Germans did.

That was a literal slap in the face for that journalist. The one thing I will say, they did a great job of making you feel so hot, so humid, so claustrophobic in this movie. And as I said, it’s based on the real specifications

This U-Boat that they’re in, that they built for the movie. So, yeah, it must have been really like that. So just while we’re in a quiet period of the movie, one of the reasons for anyone who doesn’t know the US and the UK both threatened to invade the

Republic of Ireland during World War II because they wanted access to our seaports, obviously because we’re the last island of Europe and the Atlantic to combat the U boat threat to the Atlantic convoys. Unfortunately, and it’s not unfortunately, our prime minister at the time, known as the

Taoiseach which is the irish word for Prime Minister Eamonn De Valera, flat out refused. And there was very good reasons for that. Ireland was only 20 years independent, barely that. It was just recovering from its civil war. Britain had waged an economic war against us during the entirety of our independence at that

Point, so our economy was in tatters. We had no money to buy weapons and arms and we couldn’t afford the risk of a german invasion, which was quite likely. The Germans had drawn up plans called Operation Green or Grun to invade Ireland in the event we assisted the British.

So it just wasn’t feasible. Now, luckily, after he told them to go and get lost. And there’s a famous speech you can find by De Valera doing a public address to the nation, telling basically Churchill and Roosevelt to fuck off. And you can find that on YouTube. But luckily, Roosevelt and Churchill

Basically backed down after that. And the reason they backed down primarily, believe it or not, was because there was such huge irish populations and irish descent populations in the US and the UK that there was a real risk of insurgencies. And we also had the IRA operating in

Both of those countries at the time. There was a real risk of insurgencies in those countries, which they could do without. So, yeah, luckily they never followed through on their threat. But for anyone that thinks the Allies were all good, not necessarily. That doesn’t mean the Germans and the Italians were great either.

Just saying the Allies weren’t all good either. That’s one way to look at it captain. Make the best of a bad situation, I suppose. What? He’s mixing lemon juice and condensed milk that’s going to curdle, man. Turn sour straight away. No, you’re fine, mate. Drink it on your own.

So the captain’s worried that the British are getting more and more effective at combating the U-Boat threat. And he worries, I think, for the future of him and his crew and his boat. Probably more so his crew and his boat than himself, to be honest. So these guys are really excited to get

Into action and relieve the boredom and tension of just hanging around in that boat all day in those cramped, horrible conditions. That shot with the tower was built inside the studio, obviously using a green screen for the background of the sea. And the way they did it was they had this tower built

In a tank and they splashed the water using the tank, and then they shot the frames at 1500 frames per second. If I remember correctly, it could be slightly more to get that effect of real life motion. Another thing I’ll mention quickly while we’re in a

Quiet moment is the director actually kept the crew indoors for the entirety of the shoot. And the reason for that is he wanted them to look paler and paler as the movie went on. So it reflected what the sailors would actually have looked like if they had spent three months or

Six months at sea in a submarine. Okay, so because the weather is bad, they’re going to rely on their sonar because they can’t really see anything with the binoculars when they were up top, which makes sense. Okay, so they were trying to make contact with the

Other uboat they were supposed to hunt the convoy with. They couldn’t find them, and now they can hear depth charges. So it looks like their comrade ship is in trouble! And the captain is still going to go ahead with the pursuit, which is what he’s supposed to do. So.

Right call, I presume, because a, it’ll relieve pressure on his comrade u boat, and b, he still gets to target the enemy. Yeah, that isn’t a convoy. That’s a destroyer, man, designed specifically to take you out. Now, even though he’s dived, his problem is the

Destroyer has also got sonar so it can hear exactly where he is despite the weather on top. Would he not be smarter just to leg it at this stage? That’s probably what I’d do. So he’s going to take on the destroyer. Interesting choice. Exactly what I would have thought, to be honest,

And I’m not a naval guy! If someone does have naval experience or knowledge, if they could let me know. Are torpedoes designed to explode at range, or are they designed to explode upon contact? I’m presuming range, but I could be wrong. I don’t know. He’s lost the destroyer.

And I bet you the destroyer hasn’t lost him, as I said with their Sonar! Right on top of him! And a similar question to anyone out there with naval knowledge about depth charges, which, again, I’m presuming are designed to explode at range, or in this case, depth.

I would have presumed sonar, but he’s saying the periscope is how they got spotted. So it’s a game of Cat and Mouse now with the destroyer hunting them and him trying to evade. But again, I presume sonar would allow the destroyer to detect them. And I presume that’s why he’s diving deeper,

So the sonar can’t penetrate down that far. The music helps really build the tension! Oh, those death charges are right on top of him. Looks like there was no serious damage so far, anyway. You can see the men are worried. Why is he killing the lights? To preserve power?

Because I know the engines were primarily electric, a mixture of electric and diesel engines, if I remember correctly. Again, I’m just thinking, though, won’t the. If he’s going main engines full ahead, won’t that create noise that the sonar can pick up? But again, if they’re electric engines, they could be quiet.

And that’s why he killed the lights, to put more power to the electric engines. It’s a good thing he tested out the depth strength of the boat earlier in those exercises. Isn’t it coming in handy now? Credit to the sound effects guy as well. For all those creaking and popping sounds in the

Background, again, it really helps build the tension of what it must been like for these crews. Didn’t they go to 160 last time? So now they’re going deeper than they tested out in the exercise. He’s really pushing the limits of this boat. But he has to. The destroyers on top of them.

Hit again with depth charges. And I presume because they’re at such deep pressure as well or depth. The pressure. The combination with the depth charges is going to screw up the boat heavily. I believe it was a practice of some uboat captains

To jettison oil and debris, you know, boxes of clothing, stuff like that out the torpedo tubes to make it look like after they’ve been hit by a couple of death charges that they were finished trying to deceive the destroyers. Again, if someone thinks that’s wrong, please let me know in the comments.

It’s just something I read before. He’s no choice but to go deeper. Then again, he’s not able to lose these guys. Can the boat take it or has the hull been damaged by the depth charges as I said? Okay, it looks like the destroyer is losing them!

Okay, it looks like they got away with it. But I think I said at the start of this I was questioning why the captain proceeded to attack a destroyer in that weather knowing his comrade u boat hadn’t met contact and was likely destroyed. To me it seemed like a silly

And stupid mistake by the captain. And one story I will share again, it’s a few years since I read this, so anyone, if they think this is wrong, please correct me. But I believe the captain was a composite of two real characters, one of whom was respected and survived the war and

Did lots of great naval service for the Reich. The other one, I’m not saying from my perspective, great naval service for the Reich, but from the Reich’s perspective. And the other one was actually a guy who was known for running at the first sight of enemy contact and always running back to port.

And in fact, in 1942 he got charged with cowardice and he ended up committing suicide in 1943 before he could be executed for that cowardice charge. However, he was very popular among his men because obviously they didn’t get killed. Of course they loved him because he was

Running away all the time rather than engaging. So that’s what I remember reading, that the captain is a composite of these two real captains that existed. So they’re still paranoid that the destroyer is hunting for them, which in fairness is probably correct.

So clever move! Surface at night so that the visibility for the destroyer crew in terms of eyesight is reduced. But again, Sonar has to come into play, surely. Why is the captain wearing goggles in the boat? I don’t get it? Someone, if they know, explain to me.

Was he adjusting his vision for the dark so he could see better when he raised the periscope? I don’t know. So again, this scene is one that the author of the novel really hated. He really hated it because he said no German U-Boat crew member would behave like this.

Dressing up as a woman and dancing. It just wouldn’t happen. So, yeah, pretty much anything like this just made the author hate the novel or hate the movie. As I said, anything where they’re not behaving prim and proper at all times. What the hell is this? A dick inspection. Why? For lice.

In case they picked up stds when they were on shore. Yeah, stds. Why? Why did I have all the other guys just watching along? Just to pull the piss. Great. He’s got crabs as well. Probably from sharing the beds with the other men. Although he’s an officer, he probably has his own bunk.

But such tight quarters, they’re bound to spread everywhere. I didn’t know there was a fifth stage of crabs. If anyone knows what the hell is the 6th stage then! Great! They all have crabs. As I said, such tight, confined quarters, they’re probably spreading everywhere. The journalist is doing his version

Of Kate Winslet on the Titanic. I’m king of the world. That’s it. Dive down where there’s no storm. Nice and calm down there. Just a quick bit of trivia. I know on the captain, the original actor picked to play the captain, it was Rutger Hauer, but he dropped

Out of the role to take on the role he had in Blade Runner with Harrison Ford. But I think the current actor, I know his face. I just can’t think of his name. He does a really good job in this movie. Another interesting bit of trivia, and I

Do know this for a fact. That guy who shouted man overboard and this guy who fell was actually a real accident on set and was not meant to happen. And the director thought it was great and he said, well done, guys. Turns out the guy who fell broke three

Ribs had to be taken to hospital. And to continue the movie, they literally had to wheel him from the hospital because he was in there for concussion for over a week each day and then back to hospital when filming finished and for the remainder of the movie.

I’m not sure if it’s in the director’s cut, but he’s lying in bed because. Three broken ribs. If you’ve ever broken a rib, which I have a few times. It’s extremely painful. I’ve dislocated knees, I’ve dislocated shoulders, I’ve dislocated fingers, I’ve never broken my nose a few times.

I’ve had stitches over 200 times. I’ve been stabbed, I’ve been shot. And nothing is as painful to me as broken ribs. I’ll be perfectly honest. When I had two, which is the most I’ve had, I could barely breathe. I couldn’t get comfortable sitting up, lying down, nothing.

That’s a positive way of looking at mildew. But he isn’t wrong. That bread mold contains penicillin and that’s actually how penicillin was first discovered. I think it was in the crimean war. They figured out with Florence Nightingale’s crew of nurses that when they put moldy bread on soldiers wounds

They healed a lot better and quicker. I could be wrong. Maybe it’s an old wives tale, but it’s something I read before. Is this an enemy submarine? Although I don’t think the British really had submarines. I could be wrong again, but I don’t remember reading

A lot about british submarines in World War II. So I presume it’s one of another german U boat! Bit of old Morse code there, I believe. Morse code has since fallen out of fashion with armed forces and it’s no longer used. That’s what I read again somewhere I

Think about a couple of years ago. It was definitely still in use when I was in the army, but that’s what, almost 30 years ago. Wow. Atlantic convoy spotted transporting all that Lend Lease stuff to the USSR. And this is exactly what they were trained for, to take out these convoys.

That doesn’t make sense. The convoy, if it’s an outward convoy, load it with equipment, tanks, ammunition, ordinance, artillery shells, God knows what. They definitely are going to have protection. They’re probably just either ahead or behind or both of the convoy. He doesn’t like the moon. It’s given too much light.

So they can be spotted by the. So there’s five other uboats along with them. And he’s so confident he’s not even diving to take the shot. He’s going to do it at the surface again. I would question that by the captain with his experience. He has to know.

They either have biplanes covering them. There has to be destroyers around somewhere. Why take the risk? Maybe torpedoes are more accurate when fired at the surface. I don’t know. Again, someone let me know in the comments. Destroyer. I knew it. Now they’re in trouble. Should have dove and fired the torpedoes from the

Cover particularly when he was worried about the moonlight. But as I said, there could be a naval reason for what he did. Exactly my point. So some of the crew agree with me. Yeah, the crew should be a bit wiser than celebrating when a destroyer is hunting them, surely.

So they managed to sink at least the first ship, it looks like. Yeah, but is the destroyer going to pay you back? That’s what I’d be worried about. I know I’ve said it before, but I really, really love the atmosphere created by the director and the sound engineer.

That tension, the constant tension, that boredom when they’re not in action. It’s just fantastic. It really makes the movie for me. Makes you feel as if you’re really with the crew, waiting for these depth charges to go off. Hey, the destroyer has found them!

And you can hear the sonar pinging off the submarine, which again is adding to that tension. As I said, I feel anyway that I’m standing there with the crew. My heart’s going like the clappers. And this is why they have to remain so silent! Any sound can be picked up by the sonar.

And again, lights are off again, I presume to power the electric engines and ensure they have enough power to do whatever maneuvers they need to do. Destroyers right on top of them. It’s going to drop more death charges any minute. I was going to say, mate, you could have waited.

Pissing in the can. Seems like they’ve taken significant damage after that attack. I presume they have to switch on the emergency ventilation from the smoke, from the damage in the fires, plus the gas and the fire extinguisher. Again, because they’re so tight and confined, those fumes would be choking them all!

I doubt they’re running away. They have you where they want you. Again, I’m presuming that’s all he can do is dive deeper to get away from the sonar. But if that’s wrong, someone let me know in the comments. It’s the ultimate game of hide and seek, isn’t it?

Where your very life is at risk if you lose. Okay, I get it. The captain’s going to go back the way they can because the destroyer will be thinking it’s trying to get away from them and going that direction while he’s going to head back to the convoy. Reverse psychology. I like it.

Tension is unbearable. But it does give you a real flavor of what those crews must have had gone through during the war, particularly given the casualty rate. And I’m sure all of these sailors this late into the war would have known that every time they went out there

Was a fairly decent chance they were never coming back. There was such a responsibility on that audio guy or sonar guy as well, wasn’t there? Oh, no. It’s a new destroyer. Two of them now hunting them. Again, I go back to why did the captain make that

Stupid decision to attack on the surface in broad moonlight! Makes no sense to me. What’s he going to do now with two of them hunting him? They can just create a grid pattern and isolate him. I presume that’s the logical choice. Go deeper until you’re out of sonar range.

But can the boat take it? Okay, this is significantly beyond the depth they have dived to before. What was the maximum on the gauge? 260 I think! He has to go deeper. You can still hear the sonar pinging the boat. Has to do it. He has to go. The sonar is still pinging.

He has to get out of range. They’re dead if they don’t. So better to take the risk and hope the boat survives. The bolts are all pinging off because of the pressure. And I presume we’re going to start hitting the crew and causing injuries.

There is no point telling the men to be quite, captain. When you’ve got steel bolts pinging around! They’re going to be screwed. They’re too deep. Their depth charges are also going to damage them. Hull structure will be weakened. Blasted again, Man! Now they’re trying to make running repairs while still under attack.

Which means the evasion tactics are going to be even more difficult to get away from these two destroyers. Okay, so the captain’s hope is we’ll hang on until they run out of ammunition again. I’m not sure I agree with that choice. Is Johann injured? No, he’s just cracking under the strain.

Similar to World War I soldiers. Shell shock. In this case, depth charge shock. So similar to Erkil in the Talvisota reaction or Talvisota movie. He’s trying to get out of the U-boat, which obviously can’t at 200 plus meters. Whatever they’re at. Problem with a submarine is you can’t even send

Someone like that back to the rear for recuperation. Because he’s probably on there for another month and a half at least. And the journalist is making his goodbyes with his photographs. Probably wise to be prepared. Hey, everybody. Welcome back. That was the first part of that Das Boot.

We’ve ended with a wonderfully tense atmosphere. The boat is under attack by two destroyers. The boat is sinking. The boat’s at a depth of 220 metres and still being depth charged. The captain is hoping that they run out of ammunition. The two ships that are hunting them, because

They can’t get away from the sonar. They’re at a depth. They can’t go any further. As deep as they can go. And some of the crew are starting to crack, which we’ve just seen with Johann. Others are preparing to say their goodbyes, as we just seen with the journalists.

So, a very tense moment. We’re leaving it at, but please join me for part two. So you can find out what happens to the U-Boat and the crew! In the meantime, take care of yourselves, take care of your families. God bless and bye for now.