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Hostile Waters is a 1997 television movie about the loss of the K-219, a Yankee II class nuclear ballistic missle sub. The film stars Rutger Hauer as the commander of K-219. It claims to be based on the true story This is a list of film-related events in 1997. ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, telefilm, etc. ... K-219 was a Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Yankee II) of the Soviet Navy. ... Rutger Hauer Rutger Hauer (born January 23, 1944, Breukelen, the Netherlands) is an international movie star. ...

According to the movie, K-219 performs a Crazy Ivan, and USS Augusta (SSN-710) collides with K-219, causing a rupture of the seal on one of its ballistic missile tubes. The leaking seawater causes a corrosive reaction which floods the sub with toxic gas. The corrosive reaction starts a fire that floods the sub with more toxic gas, and smoke. Crazy Ivan is a U.S. Navy term for a Soviet submarine maneuver, characterized by any number of sudden and sharp turns, used by submarine crews to look behind them. ... USS Augusta (SSN-710), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Augusta, Georgia. ...

The captain surfaces the boat and moves the crew out to the deck, and attempts to vent the sub. The chief engineer informs the captain that the fire may cook off the nukes and cause an enormous nuclear explosion. The launch doors are opened on the sub to vent smoke.

The Agusta ascertains that a fire is aboard K-219, and informs the Pentagon. The Pentagon fearing radiological contamination of the Eastern Seaboard, orders Agusta to prepare to sink K-219. The fact that the launch doors are open on the SLBMs causes consternation at Washington DC, with calls for the immediate sinking of the sub, should it appear to be preparing to launch.

The captain of K-219 prepares a bold plan to dive with the launch doors open, to flood the missile bay and quench the fires. As the captain dives the sub, Agusta prepares to fire, assuming K-219 is preparing to launch, but then decides that K-219 is crazy, to dive with open launch doors.

K-219's tactic works, and the sub resurfaces with the fires out.