Near the end of production, when the filmmakers had relocated to France to shoot at the abandoned Nazi marina at La Rochelle, a planned open water shoot with a replica went belly up for a number of reasons. First, they had to re-capture the replica from Steven Spielberg, who rented the vessel right from under their noses to film Raiders of the Lost Arc. Then, the supposedly seaworthy U-Boat began to take on water during the shoot. Finally, the vessel broke apart at its moorage later that night. A month-long delay in production and 2 million DEM later, the salvaged replica was cobbled together into the beaten-down monstrosity that rolls into La Rochelle right before the bombs begin to fall. Luckily for the filmmakers, the boat was supposed to look like it'd been chewed up and spat out by the sea.

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