Why in Submarine movies....?!
Question: When there is a attack or collision, why is there always some steam pipe that blows open, and all they have to do is close a valve to fix it and all is better?
Answers: When there is a attack or collision, why is there always some steam pipe that blows open, and all they have to do is close a valve to fix it and all is better?
Definitely Hollywood dreams! There is no pipe in a sub that so ineffective, that you can isolate it with a valve and not have consequences! Also, subs in WWII had no steam systems, they were all mechanical (gear/belt driven) , pneumatic (Air driven), hydraulic (oil driven) or electrical (motor driven.) Steam wasn't on subs until the mid 1950s with nuclear power.
That's Hollywood for you...
Because if it were realistic people wouldn't get it. Kinda like when there are shots fired at a car and the car blows up because the fuel tank was hit...never gonna happen in real life but it makes for a better movie.
Perhaps subs have redundant systems, so they are switching a y connector. Or, the filmmaker wanted to demonstrate how perilous the situation was without turning it into an episode of This Old Sub by dwelling upon how to fix a pipe leak.
Why is it that, on Star Trek, any alien attack makes the computer console in front of the most minor character explode, instantly killing the only person we couldn't care less about?
It all has to do with Hollywood's sometimes mistaken ideas about what the public will think is dramatic. Also lazy writing.