Revised. 
Richard Basehart? Das Boot? Hunt for Red October?
Any hits? 
Das Boot was contemporaneous with Sex, Lies & Videotape, IIRC…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? I’m not really familiar with that one. I thought about Das Boot and U-571, too, but other distinct vessel names didn’t immediately come to mind.
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Apologies, I’m just memory trawling…
I don’t think I’ve ever taken the time to watch that one, either, but I’m not 100% positive without spending a few minutes with it.
Where’s the 
about 
with fleas when we need to steer this beast back on topic?
Semi-relevant: At the end of this week, it’ll be 11 years since this guy arrived in my life, dirty from the engine bay and who knows what else, scrawny and covered with fleas (which we didn’t know until his first and second baths[1]).
Incidentally, abandoned kittens arrived in my sister’s life at the same time, and my brother-in-law gave them baths with flea shampoo, learning only later that this is a no-no with the youngsters. I had used mild dish soap and water, and the fleas apparently fled to the kitten’s face, which was the only dry part left. We picked them off with tweezers as they appeared and drowned them in a glass of water. ↩︎
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Mostly true. I remembered hearing something similar in the past about something with fleas being resistant to removal but that there was a catch. So I had enough of a memory to remember that there was both truth and a qualifier involved, But it wasn’t important enough for me to encode it into memory, I just remembered enough that my mental index was triggered to remind me to look up the detail. 
Basically I do a lot of mental compression and indexing on information. I don’t necessarily waste memory space and brain power memorizing rote facts that I can just look up. Instead, I will index a small fraction of it to remind me to check my second brain. 
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I had a college Spanish class prof who tried to teach me how to memorize stuff using a similar technique. I must have failed that lesson. I never learned to speak Spanish, either.
He wasn’t bluffing when he claimed he could memorize things easily. During a class, he asked us for 20 names, first and last. After a few minutes, he recited all those names, first alphabetically, and then in reverse.
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Another Flea Agent. 
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The crew are the racs, the pin-up, the stump they ‘touch’ on their way to battle stations. 
Cute ginger kitties. Long may they spunk.
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Who’d’ve guessed there’s a method to your madness. You go, brother! 
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