Power Turning: Coming to a Theatre Near You

I have the need...the need for steam demand

On January 21, 1954, The United States Navy established an elite school for the top 100% of submarine officers. Its purpose is to teach the lost art of continuity of power and ensure that the handful of men – and women on integrated boats – were the most procedurally compliant watch officers in the world.

They succeeded.

Today the Navy calls it “Prospective Nuclear Engineer Officer school.” We call it PNEO.

Power Turning, a film due out later this month from Paramount studios, is the subject of much hype and anticipation.

LTJG Patrick Morrison, an impulsive and procedurally non-compliant navy submarine EOOW is sent to PNEO a third time, despite the objections of his captain and watchbill coordinator. Morrison, who goes by the nickname Cold Water Interlock because he thinks he cannot be defeated, must reconcile his hot shot personality with his desire to provide continuity of electrical power and propulsion to a billion-dollar US submarine.

After accidentally killing his EWS as the result of an incorrect WAF rev, the guilt filled but arrogant Morrison must learn to restore balance to his life, just as he learns to balance reactor power and steam demand. Through his emotional journey we meet LT Tony Kennedy - ‘Self-Sustaining’ - a brilliant and highly competitive fellow student so named because unlike Morrison, he is inherently stable.  It is the competition between Morrison and Kennedy which eventually brings out the best of the watch standing principles in both.

But when school is cut short by a surprise ORSE halfway around the globe, Morrison and Kennedy must forget their differences and forge an initially tenuous alliance to avoid Cold Water Interlock’s father’s fate – a below average on ORSE.

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