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Giving a unique insight into the lives of some of the country's best submariners, this series spends 12 months charting the ups and downs of HMS Superb a nuclearpowered submarine that can remain undetected underwater for months on end.

Off the coast of Western Scotland HMS Superb begins her first dive. Even for the most experienced submariners this is a tense time. After three and a half years in drydock now is the time when the crew find out if Superb can "run silent, run deep".

This film was first broadcast: 21 Jan 2000

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