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• Errors in geography: The scenes that supposedly take place in Bayonne, NJ, have mountains clearly visible at times even though there are no mountains anywhere near Bayonne.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As Carl is listening to his radio in 1952, he hears a baseball score of the Milwaukee Braves one and Brooklyn Dodgers zero. However the Boston Braves did not move to Milwaukee until 1953.
  
  
• Plot holes: Jo's character seems to go wherever the script wants her to - it doesn't seem likely that a young black girl would walk alone into a rough Navy bar in a racist atmosphere, and it's hard to imagine how she showed up at Carl's dive test unescorted.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Brashear uses a pay phone in a different way from the posted instructions, but in a way that quite likely worked (inserting his dime first instead of after the called party answers).
  
  
• Continuity: When Gwen is visiting Billy in the rehab center, during their conversation while outside, the length of her cigarette keeps varying in length.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the final diving exercise, the big navy clock says it's 2 in the afternoon. A few hours later we see a diver coming out of the water Sunday says that he's been down for over four hours. But the subsequent scene shows the nervous Jo waiting for a phone call from Brashear, and the clock says that it's 3:40.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the divers are inside the sunken ship, the hose is taped. The MkV diving helmet was replaced by the Mk12 in 1979, and taped hoses were not used until 1984.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Carl swims away from the warship at the beginning of the movie, bubbles from the safety divers can be seen popping up in front of the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: During the hearing when Carl is taking his 12 steps, as he finishes step 3, his left foot is clearly on a black floor tile, as he takes step four, the left foot is now on a white floor tile.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Sunday is found guilty of assaulting Hanks and is handed his sentence, the camera zooms into Sunday's face and Sunday blinks backward (in reverse - twice). The scene was possibly shot with a view of Sunday's eyes and the camera was supposed to zoom out to see him sitting in the chair, and edited to play in reverse for the final cut.
  
  
• Factual errors: Everybody in the movie had embroidered name tapes on their uniform shirts and trousers. This is a relatively new uniform item and wasn't fully implemented until 1999. During the period the movie represents, names would have been written in black india ink using a stencil. (Sometimes just scrawled in really bad penmanship with a marker)
  
  
• Anachronisms: The pay grade of Senior Chief Petty Officer was not created until June 1, 1958. Service-wide exams were conducted for eligible Chief Petty Officers on August 5, 1958. The first batch of Chiefs to be promoted to Senior Chief occurred on November 16, 1958.
  
  
• Factual errors: The anchor device denoting rank on a chief petty officer was shown being worn parallel to the front edge on a long sleeved shirt worn with a tie. It was actually worn pointing towards the tip of the collar only on a short sleeved shirt with no tie.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The diving helmets used were not U.S.Navy Mark V helmets. They were actually a commercial model produced by DESCO and mated to a mark V breastplate.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Brashier is facing the medical board, his uniform insignia is gold indicating at least 12 consecutive years of good conduct, yet his Good Conduct ribbon only has a single bronze star suggesting he's only won the award twice not making him eligible for gold insignia.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the initial scene in the barracks a modern fire extinguisher is seen hanging on the wall in the background. At this time the barracks would have had either a simple water bucket or a more primitive extinguisher.
  
  
• Factual errors: Carl Brashear recovers a Hydrogen bomb but the newspaper, that Billy Sunday reads, says "A-Bomb recovered". Hydrogen bomb is called H-bomb whereas an Atom Bomb is known as A-bomb, both in civilian and military parlance.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When MM1 Dylan Rourke is receiving his Navy and Marine Corps Medal in 1952, he is shown already wearing the ribbon for the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, which was not instituted until 1961.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Carl Brashear is in his hospital bed, ostensibly in 1968, both Admiral French and Captain Hanks are shown wearing the Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon. This ribbon was not established until May 1980, and made retroactive only to August 1974.
  
  
• Continuity: In every scene with a diving helmet, they screw it on clockwise. However, when they show Carl Brashear on the television searching for the H-Bomb, they screw it on anti-clockwise.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Brashear is preparing for the final meeting to review his readiness to be reinstated, a US flag is visible in the background. It has 48 stars. In 1968, it should have 50.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first meet Jo, she says that she hasn't seen her father since she was 9 years old. When she comes to the navy bar, she tells Carl Brashear that she pulled her father out of enough bars and she couldn't do it anymore, etc. It's highly unlikely that she was pulling her father out of bars at such a young age.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When MM1 Dylan Rourke is receiving his Navy and Marine Corps Medal in 1952, he is shown already wearing the ribbon for the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, which was not instituted until 1961.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the beginning of the movie, young Carl's father is plowing a field. While insisting that young Carl go to school as opposed to helping him plow a field, Carl's father places the long leather reign that controls the mules pulling the plow over his head with half the reign going under his left arm. In the close up shot that immediately follows Carl's father having placed the reign under his left arm, the reign appears around his neck with no portion under his left arm.
  
  
• Continuity: The day before the final test Brashear is wearing a blue (winter) uniform, while Chief Sunday is wearing a khaki (summer) uniform. But on the dock the next night, the sailors are wearing P-coats and N-1 jackets while Sunday is still wearing khakis.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Carl is standing in the mirror getting dressed for his hearing, the camera shows his legs in the mirror without the prosthetic. The mirror reflects that it is his 'right leg' that was amputated. But in every other scene in the movie, it was his 'left leg' that was amputated.
  
  

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