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• Boom mic visible: Above the table at the wedding reception a boom mic is visible.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Above Helen's head the first time Ben telephones her a boom mic is visible.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the training room, after Randall is discussed as the record holder, the students are brought to attention. All but one is standing to attention, he is in the back on the right hand side, standing at ease. The person standing at ease is actually an instructor and would not be called to attention with the class.
  
  

• Continuity: When Jake is in the bar, at the table with Emily, she gets up to leave, holding her purse and jacket, Jake then gets up to ask her to dance, and there is no sight of the jacket of purse.
  
  
• Continuity: After the night spent with Emily, when Jake gets dressed he's wearing different shirt than the night before.
  
  
• Continuity: At the graduation parade, when Fischer is talking to Emily, the same woman in a blue pants suit walks behind them twice.
  
  
• Continuity: As Randall (Kevin Costner) is stepping out of the "hypothermia pool" to speak with the other training officers, the camera briefly cuts back to Fischer inside the pool. Look quickly and you will see that the person in the foreground (in front of Fischer) is Kevin Costner - even though his character is supposed to be climbing out of the pool, and is standing outside of the pool when the camera cuts back again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During training, as the CG instructor talks about Katrina, you can see the camera trolley apparatus in the bottom of the screen, as the camera pans through the hangar.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the C-130 overflew the rescue chopper crash site, they chose to use the sound from a multiengine reciprocating aircraft such as a DC-3. The proper sound would have been from turbine powerplants; the C-130 has turboprop powerplants and they do not sound like reciprocating powerplants.
  
  
• Factual errors: During his dialog in the "Hypothermia Pool" Randall mistakenly refers to the body's condition as a state of hyperthemia, which is a rapid increase in body temperature, not decrease.
  
  
• Continuity: The entire area is blanketed in snow when Fisch and Randall arrive at Kodiak, but in the cave rescue scene there is no snow anywhere on the cliffs or on the bluff above the cave. That is because the scene was filmed near Cape Disappointment, Washington, not Alaska.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Jake meets Emily to give her half of his bet winnings, they are at the bar. There are even other patrons leaning up against the bar right next to Emily. When she holds up Jake's napkin and says, "This is just a picture of your pants," they are sitting at a table and then get up and walk over to the dance floor. This "continuity error" is the result of a jump cut, clearly intended by the film's editors.
  
  
• Factual errors: The "Squid Bar" Hodges and Fisch go to is filled with Sailors in the utility uniforms, along with various officers and chiefs. Sailors are not allowed to drink in the utility uniform or even go into a bar.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several times, we're told that Fischer was offered swimming scholarships by "all the Ivy League Schools." Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships. Also, the Ivies haven't had first rate swimming programs since Yale in the early sixties. An outstanding high school swimmer would be receiving scholarship offers from schools in conferences such as the SEC or Pac 10.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During Jake's first official rescue of the canoeists in the cave, a lifeguard's flotation briefly appears in the opening of a small side cave behind Randall when he preparing to bring out one of the canoeists.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Randall leaves on the mission to rescue Fischer, the call sign of the rescue helicopter is 6008. However, shortly after the helicopter arrives on scene, the pilots identify as 6028.
  
  

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