Why didn't Robinson just put a suit on, wait for the compartment to become flooded, then open up the escape chamber and swim out?
Did they only have 3 suits? I might have missed something
There was no escape chamber - they were in the torpedo room.
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Why didn't he just swim out the chamber with a suit on when the room had filled up then?
shareThe non-existant chamber?
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"We're with you all the way, mostly"
The torpedo chamber the other two went up in. He could have just flooded it. Then when his section flooded with water opened it up and swam out in a survival suit
This is not how it works. In order for the the outer hatch of the torpedo chamber to be opened, the inner hatch has to be closed. This is to avoid flooding of the submarine.
So, yes, you can use a torpedo chamber as an emergence exit, but someone from within the submarine has to operate it.
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"We're with you all the way, mostly"
I was confused on a couple things as well. I didn't understand why the kid couldn't take a bar with him--they said he wouldn't make it to the surface of he did. But then a suit IS sent up filled with bars. How is that possible?
I'm not getting too hung up on what is realistic or whatever because it's just a movie but there were quite a few things I was confused on.
It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?
Robinson stated that each bar was 12kg. I know absolutely nothing about those survival suits, but lets say they can lift 100kg, Robinson would have been able to send up around 8 bars. At the stated half million each that's $4 million. As to why he didn't want the kid to take one with him, probably to not unnecessarily add any weight to the suit and give the kid a better chance at survival. Really the gold is just a bonus at that point, it doesn't change their chances of reaching the surface, if they get it great, if they don't at least they are still alive.
shareI think the compartment's exterior seal can only be opened from the inside, and only after the interior seal is closed. This prevents the compartment from accidentally flooding the ship.
shareAs for the kid not being able to take one, that was just another absurdity in one of the most childish screenplays ever written.
Those suits are designed to carry ANY sailor up, which means a 250 lb man or even heavier. The kid probably weigh 140 lbs, so he could have carried 100 lbs of gold, no problem.
I thought this was an error too. However it occurred to me that Jude planned to send the gold up so there was no need to put any in the suit. He obviously didn't send all the gold up.
She's a man, it's a sled, he's dead already.
He left all the gold to himself, selfish bastard.
shareActually it makes sense not to take the gold. The suits could have taken the kid up along with a bar or even more of the gold... But they only went up because when you had them closed off they were airtight and the air bubble took you up. Once you got to the surface and unzipped them so you could breath then you would no longer have the air bubble keeping you afloat at some point you would need to tread water and swim. Not possible with 26 pounds of gold pulling you down.
I think that is why they didn't unzip the suit Jude Law sent up with gold in it. If it stayed zipped it would remain floating but if you let the air out by unzipping it would have sunk.
Moot detail. Robinson could have put on the suit, waited for the torpedo room to flood, then operated the controls in any order necessary to open the doors and swim to freedom.
shareThe impression I got was that the outer door had to be opened from inside the sub, and would only open after the inner door was closed.
That's why he'd have been trapped without an "emergency lever in the tube."
Doesn't matter what's flooded and what's not. Someone had to stay behind
Added to which, there was no way Robinson was getting off that boat - he blamed himself for their predicament and felt he had to atone.
Ironic, considering the corporation that put him there had no such conscience (which is why I maintain he was driven crazy not by greed but by revenge against the company)
I agree with ^ as he went down with the ship so to speak (as the leader). He didn't want to survive.
shareWhat about the diving hatch they used to leave in the diving suits? I always wondered why that wasn't used. Also, they knew where the gold was and it was a *beep* load. leave it there, maybe bring a few bars for proof/funding, and come back in a different boat, but that wouldn't make for much of a thriller.
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