Down Periscope/YMMV

"Dodge: All right, look, gentlemen! I know this is an unusual situation. Can't be easy for Lt. Lake to be thrown into a jungle such as this, and I know it will make things hard on all of us... *crew laughs* Let me re-phrase that. It's going to make things difficult on all of us as well. But, if we just work together as a team, I'm sure we can handle ourselves... *crew laughs* ...comport ourselves as professionals. That is all."
 * Accidental Innuendo: Dodge does this twice when introducing Lt. Lake to the rest of the crew, much to his embarassment.

"Stepanek: DRESS REHEARSAL FOR HELL, BOYS!!!"
 * Harsher in Hindsight: In 2006 a Chinese diesel sub went undetected by USS Kitty Hawk's battlegroup until it surfaced within torpedo range. This movie's plot with a different target and location.
 * Which was, of course, the entire point -- creativity and skill combined with devious thinking can easily overcome superior technical ability combined with excessive rigid rule-following.
 * Especially if helped along with superior ability in one important thing for situations like the one at hand - as noted on the main page, diesels are quiet, so if range is unimportant but silence is very important, suddenly the diesels aren't so technically inferior anymore...
 * Moment of Awesome: While it would be easy to say "Every crazy scheme they tried that worked," Stepanek's saving of the engine room when it starts taking on water takes the cake for individuality. First he gives a (VERY brief) Rousing Speech to the crew that wants to abandon, then when it looks at first they have things under control, the Main breaks and is twice as bad as all the rest put together. Stepanek picks up a brace and single-handedly walks straight against the geyser to clamp it down.


 * Then, as stated under Jerkass Facade, he considered it fun.