The Enemy Below.

[anilzat]

Saw this movie and I thought you would appreciate the vintage Rolex. I hope this does not conflict with TRF rules this is history sort of.







As you can see it is a steel band being used, not a rubber one.






That is some Rolex, me really likes it. Look at the large crown.


I don't know which Rolex it it's, however the movie is depicted during WWII. The movie was made in the very late 1950's. The diver Lt. Crabb used it through out the film.


I don't know if the Rolex is correct for WWII, I don't know if Rolex made this in WWII, but it's cool.

[jedly1]

http://www.rolexforums.com/archive/i.../t-179595.html

if you google it you'll find many an informative thread on several different forums to get a bit more info.

[Laszlo]

Cool!

[Cc1966]

Super...thanks for putting this together.

[Vincent65]

very cool

[dysondiver]

great pics , thats a very good close up.

[anilzat]

Originally Posted by dysondiver

great pics , thats a very good close up.

I tried my best, it is so cool to see a Rolex being used in a movie

[dysondiver]

great result ,,, so often its just a blur and a lot of imagination ,,, very good old movie too ,,
we dive at dawn springs to mind , or maybe iits we sail at dawn , about a sub crew that sinks ,,, very good movie.
oops its actually called

morning depature ,,,, imdb is my friend ,,, well worthy of a watching

[Beef]

Originally Posted by dysondiver

great result ,,, so often its just a blur and a lot of imagination ,,, very good old movie too ,,
we dive at dawn springs to mind , or maybe iits we sail at dawn , about a sub crew that sinks ,,, very good movie.
oops its actually called

morning depature ,,,, imdb is my friend ,,, well worthy of a watching

The sub sank? Did they forget to dog down the screen door before they submerged, DD? Sorry, DD! Couldn't resist.

Thanks for posting, anilzat. Great pics!

[dysondiver]

the very one ,,, i always think of it as an example of what happens to a sub if you go diving with dodgy seals ,,,,

[Beef]

Originally Posted by dysondiver

the very one ,,, i always think of it as an example of what happens to a sub if you go diving with dodgy seals ,,,,

Most SEALs I dove with were dodgy! Of course, they said the same about us. Again, couldn't resist!

[dbt001]

Originally Posted by Beef

The sub sank?

Doesn't the sub sink in every sub movie?

[anilzat]

Originally Posted by dbt001

Doesn't the sub sink in every sub movie?

And don't forget the hero always has a girl waiting for him.

[dysondiver]

and the guy whos going to be a dancer looses a leg ....

[dysondiver]

Originally Posted by dbt001

Doesn't the sub sink in every sub movie?

epic

[anilzat]

No subs sank in this movie, just ships.

His career, at the outbreak of World War II, Crabb was first an army gunner. Then, in 1941, he joined the Royal Navy. The next year he was sent to Gibraltar where he worked in a mine and bomb disposal unit to remove the Italian limpet mines that enemy divers had attached to the hulls of Allied ships. Initially, Crabb's job was to disarm mines that British divers removed, but eventually he decided to learn to dive.
He was one of a group of underwater clearance divers who checked for limpet mines in Gibraltar harbour during the period of Italian frogman and manned torpedo attacks by the Decima Flottiglia MAS. They dived with oxygen rebreathers Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, which until then had not been used much if at all for swimming down from the surface. At first they swam by breaststroke without swimfins.
On 8 December 1942, during one such attack, two of the Italian frogmen, Lt. Visintini and Petty Officer Magro died, probably killed by depth charges. Their bodies were recovered, and their swimfins and Scuba sets were taken and from then on used by Sydney Knowles and Commander Lionel Crabb.
He was awarded the George Medal for his efforts and was promoted to Lieutenant commander. In 1943 he became Principal Diving Officer for Northern Italy, was assigned to clear mines in the ports of Livorno and Venice; he was later created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for these services. He was also an investigating diver in the suspicious death of General Sikorski of the Polish Army, whose B-24 Liberator aircraft crashed near Gibraltar in 1943.[1]
By this time he had gained the nickname "Buster", named after U.S. actor and swimmer Buster Crabbe. After the war Crabb was stationed in Palestine and led an underwater explosives disposal team that removed mines placed by Irgun, the Zionist militant group. After 1947, he was demobilised from the military.


Death by Misadventure[edit]
The British diving expert Rob Hoole wrote in 2007 that Crabb had probably died of oxygen poisoning or perhaps carbon dioxide poisoning, and that Crabb's age and poor health caused by his heavy drinking and smoking had made him unsuitable for the mission that he had been assigned.[2] In support of the death by misadventure theory, Hoole noted that before disappearing on his second attempt to dive the Ordzhonikidze, Crabb had during his first attempt experienced equipment failure, which suggested that Crabb's equipment was not up to standard.[2] Crabb's MI6 officer John Nicholas Rede Elliott always took the view that Crabb had suffered equipment failure and/or his health had given way, and that his reputation had been unfairly dragged through the mud.[16]

A sad end to a hero.

From Wikipedia