![]() Presumably, the team needed the claw to open the missile hatch and lift the missile itself, something they couldn't do without the largest mini-sub in the rig's fleet. If you watch the deleted scene closely, you'll see that Coffey is piloting Flatbed and is using the claw to hold the Trident missile up while the rest of the team removes the warhead. However, in a deleted scene that was restored for the 1997 theatre and home video release, we see precisely why the SEALs wanted Flatbed: it's much larger and has more power than the smaller subs, plus it has a much larger mechanical arm and claw. Also, Coffey is a strictly by-the-book officer and felt that he didn't have to ask permission from Bud or Lindsey or anyone before he took the sub. Though it's plausible that they'd have been briefed fully on the operations and procedures by Lindsey, Bud and the crew, when they arrived on the rig or before they left the surface, the writers may have just left this out for the convenience of the plot-if Coffey hadn't taken Flatbed, then we wouldn't have the disaster and story that follows. ![]() Firstly, Coffey and the team probably didn't know that the Deepcore team needed the claw on Flatbed to unhook the umbilical cable from the rig. ![]()
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