Flight of the Aquanaut Thoughts, IMAX

[ScubaSarus]

I just watched this IMAX movie and think it was a great movie with a good theme. There were just some weird things in there that I cant explain.

Who was filming him when he got tangled in the wreck.

Could the cameraperson have got him un-tangled.

Do barrels of benzene (cyclohexane) illegally dumped usually have the word BENZENE written on it in large letters.

Did those dolphins really come and untangle him or was it staged.

Did he really go into the wreck alone as he said how did they get those camera angles in the wreck if he was alone.

Did he really disturbe the Benzenz barrels causing more benzene to spread about the reef.

Is benzene red ?

Couldn't they have previously found the wreck that size intact on sonar. They had million dollar equipment.

Anyone who saw the movie, Ide like to get your opinion. I may be being too critical.

Otherwise I really enjoyed the movie and in HD it was quite awesome.

 

[Doc]

Close your eyes and repeat after me: Holly, Holly. Wood, Wood. Hollywood. Say it slowly.

 

[ScubaSarus]

I was too afraid to as the movie sent a good message. I thought IMAX produced documentaries LOL

 

[dschonbrun]

IMAX is a film format (size) which corresponds to a movie screen 4x the area of standard. It has been used for many documentaries, because the big screen impact is what was desired. Few mainstream films have been done on IMAX, but that is changing...Beowulf IMAX-3D for example.

 

[Tienuts]

That's funny.

The wreck was Theo's wreck in Freeport, Bahama. Sits in 100 feet or so. Unexo is the dive op that assisted with that, and those dolphins are trained - you can dive with them in the open ocean if you like.

 

[ScubaSarus]

Oh wow thanks for that added info Tienuts. I spent a few hours years back seeing if the Blair Witch Project was real. So you now understand how I can be taken by these films.

 

[Doc]

Here's an underwater IMAX anecdote in case you might want to read one....

When Al Giddings shot Galapagos IMAX 3D Galápagos: About the Film , he utilized two main actors. One was a lady who portrayed her real-life role as a marine biologist replete with all the ooh-ahh comments and "scientific research" that were quite a bit beneath her real level of activities.

The other person was an old friend, Mathias Espinosa (of SCUBA Iguana Scuba Diving Galapagos Islands - Scuba Iguana). He was the lead Dive Guia (guide) for the Darwin Research Station. He is currently teaching former fishermen to become dive guides, abandoning their old ways to concentrate on renewable green sources of income- vacation divers.

We brought Mathias a DVD of the film and his first DVD player- you wanna talk about over weight baggage travel?

We set the thing up and watched Mathias and his crew see the film for the first time.

Anyway, in this one scene, Mathias was escorting the pretty Diving Doctor Lady down the lava crags into the bowels of the treacherous dormant volcano.

The whole room erupted into scream and howls- over a scene that we saw nothing worthy of note. Apparently, while the film was flying through the camera at about $250 a second, Mathias slipped ever so slightly- and opened up a gash on his knee about 5 inches long.

He toughed it out, and although you can see blood pouring out of his leg (if you know to look), he soldiered on.

Again, IMAX is not reality- but it sure is fun.

 

[chuck e]

I just watched this IMAX movie and think it was a great movie with a good theme. There were just some weird things in there that I cant explain.

Who was filming him when he got tangled in the wreck.

Could the cameraperson have got him un-tangled.

Do barrels of benzene (cyclohexane) illegally dumped usually have the word BENZENE written on it in large letters.

Did those dolphins really come and untangle him or was it staged.

Did he really go into the wreck alone as he said how did they get those camera angles in the wreck if he was alone.

Did he really disturbe the Benzenz barrels causing more benzene to spread about the reef.

Is benzene red ?

Couldn't they have previously found the wreck that size intact on sonar. They had million dollar equipment.

Anyone who saw the movie, Ide like to get your opinion. I may be being too critical.

Otherwise I really enjoyed the movie and in HD it was quite awesome.

OK, chemistry 101. Benzene is not cyclohexane, but a 6 carbon aromatic liquid. It is colorless, and less dense than seawater. If leaking from drum, it would float to the surface and eventually evaporate.

 

[Doc]

I just watched this IMAX movie.....

Do barrels of benzene (cyclohexane) illegally dumped usually have the word BENZENE written on it in large letters.....

....Did those dolphins really come and untangle him or was it staged.

OK, chemistry 101. Benzene is not cyclohexane, but a 6 carbon aromatic liquid. It is colorless, and less dense than seawater. If leaking from drum, it would float to the surface and eventually evaporate.

Ok, fine Chuck. Now I suppose you have some kind of fancy scientific explanation about how those Dolphins really didn't untangle him because they knew that particular aroma wasn't really dangerous.

You're killin' me, Smalls.

And what do you mean about Blair, which Blair?

 

[Bob Vincent]

Close your eyes and repeat after me: Holly, Holly. Wood, Wood. Hollywood. Say it slowly.

Amen, right on!