What was that all about . Couldnt understand exactly what he was doing it for ( or was it explained ). What would happen if there was an emergency surface or some other manouver, what a mess. Love the film
shareIt was explained. Sharks need to move through water to get water through their gills and extract the oxygen or they will drown and the shark was sedated so wasn't moving by itself.
sharePretty much, if a shark stops moving it dies because it needs forward motion to force water through it's gills to breathe and for some experiment the Commodore had sedated the shark.
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But the shark walk could be paused for a little conversation.
Do you think the rubber shark in Voyage grew up to become the shark that bit Batman's leg in Batman: The Movie?
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What others said about the shark, plus it was also to show that this was a scientific vessel, and not "warship". Total garbage in terms of plausibility, but there you have it.
shareWhen TCM ran Irwin Allen's Oscar-winning documentary The Sea Around Us (1952) last week I saw that it had a segment on this very thing: shark walking. Apparently it's a common (if dangerous) undertaking by marine biologists, for the same reasons Peter Lorre states in VTTBOTS. Obviously Irwin stole from himself in introducing the concept in this movie, remembering his sequence about it nine years earlier.
Also it was a good way to dispose of Dr. Hiller.
But yes, all the water in the tank, together with the Commodore's "little friend Bessie" should go spilling out of the tank every time the sub surfaces -- especially the way it does in the opening shot -- or otherwise maneuvers wildly. Just another minor detail Irwin Allen didn't want to bother our little heads with.
Of course there could be some sort of mechaism to slid a lid over the shark tank.
And Maybe something was rigged up to signal when the sub made a violent maneuver and trigger the mechanism to slid the lid over the shark tank and keep water from spilling.
There were probably a bunch of other places on the sub where such a mechanisim would be useful when the sub made sudden maneuver.
Of course if someone was walking a shark at the time and the lid slid fast, it might cut them in half.
I like your approach. If you like a movie of this sort, you may have to come up with a few plausible explanations that Irwin Allen would not have cared about.
Haha. True. For the tv series you have to continually come up wi th plausible explanations for stuff. Especially after season 2..😂
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