Master Chief/Senior Chief/Chief Leslie W. ‘Billy’ Sunday
Gooding Jr. Cuba
BM2/Chief/Senior Chief Carl Brashear
Theron Charlize
Gwen Sunday
Ellis Aunjanue
Jo
Holbrook Hal
Captain ‘Mr. Pappy’
Rapaport Michael
GM1 Snowhill
Boothe Powers
Captain Pullman
Keith David
Captain Hartigan
McCallany Holt
MM1 Dylan Rourke
Leonard Joshua
PO2 Timothy Douglas Isert
Troutman Dennis
Boots
Feinman Joshua
DuBoyce
Pagones Theo Nicholas
FC Mellegrano
Honey Ryan
Surveyor 2nd Yarmouth
Conrad David
Lt./Cmdr./Capt. Hanks
Directors:
George Tillman Jr.
IMDB Rating:
6.60 out of 10 (11427 votes)
Taglines:
1: History is made by those who break the rules.
Plot Summary:
Carl Brashear, born in 1931 to sharecroppers, joins the Navy and, after watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, determines to become the Navy’s first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers’ training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brasher must endure hazing verging on the murderous. With Sunday and the camp’s commander dead set against Brashear’s graduating, his physical skills and steely determination, which he got from his father, see him through. Carl and Billy’s paths cross again when each needs rehabilitation one from an injury, the other from bitterness. Their wives look on with awe and frustration.
