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i thought that he used the O2 bottle ? I wanted to see him seize up with o2 tox
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Still wanna know what about cave diving halts the growth of facial hair.
I went to see it yesterday.
Though everything was almost expected to happen, I couldn't resist to blame James Cameron to sacrifice credibility towards making the movie more dramatic.
It's supposed that this type of movie is going to be seen by a large number of divers, so, me, as a diver, with little to no knowledge about rebreathers and cave diving could see a lot of mistakes and things to complain, here is my list :
1) The first she diver that dies when the rebrether hose exploded, had a wetsuit with a very legible SSI logo. Bad for SSI, as she dies because she hadn't an emergency breathing backup. No cave diver dives without an emergency breathing backup, never. _****_ happens, always.
2) The rebreather hose was losing air because it was broken when they went through the small hole to arrive to the cathedral. Suddenly the hose exploded. Those hoses are low pressure hoses and should not explode the way they showed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
3) Almost at the end of the movie, the son took a chemical light, broke it to light and went out with the ponny bottle breathing directly from the valve. Nice, however, the chemical light suddenly turns off. Chemical lights will light for at least 12 hours losing intensity with the time, but they never go off suddenly.
4) As they has no battery left in the helmet lights, when they arrived to the 2nd WW tank place, they took out some oil from the oil tank and made torches. It's supposed that that tank was there since 2nd WW, so the oil should have something like 70 years old and was still usable ?
5) There is no time frame during the events, so I cannot tell you how many days have passed until the last guy goes out to the surface and the beach was calm, sunny, and the waters crystal clear. It's supposed that there was a huge tornado with heavy rain and wind. The sea water in the beach should have been brown, the beach damaged and perhaps cloudy.
Just my thoughts.
Though everything was almost expected to happen, I couldn't resist to blame James Cameron to sacrifice credibility towards making the movie more dramatic.
It's supposed that this type of movie is going to be seen by a large number of divers, so, me, as a diver, with little to no knowledge about rebreathers and cave diving could see a lot of mistakes and things to complain, here is my list :
1) The first she diver that dies when the rebrether hose exploded, had a wetsuit with a very legible SSI logo. Bad for SSI, as she dies because she hadn't an emergency breathing backup. No cave diver dives without an emergency breathing backup, never. _****_ happens, always.
2) The rebreather hose was losing air because it was broken when they went through the small hole to arrive to the cathedral. Suddenly the hose exploded. Those hoses are low pressure hoses and should not explode the way they showed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
3) Almost at the end of the movie, the son took a chemical light, broke it to light and went out with the ponny bottle breathing directly from the valve. Nice, however, the chemical light suddenly turns off. Chemical lights will light for at least 12 hours losing intensity with the time, but they never go off suddenly.
4) As they has no battery left in the helmet lights, when they arrived to the 2nd WW tank place, they took out some oil from the oil tank and made torches. It's supposed that that tank was there since 2nd WW, so the oil should have something like 70 years old and was still usable ?
5) There is no time frame during the events, so I cannot tell you how many days have passed until the last guy goes out to the surface and the beach was calm, sunny, and the waters crystal clear. It's supposed that there was a huge tornado with heavy rain and wind. The sea water in the beach should have been brown, the beach damaged and perhaps cloudy.
Just my thoughts.
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Just rented it from Red Box... Was well worth my... well, $1.
First, I have to say that I am glad another movie about diving was made! That in itself was pretty cool. I do feel sorry for those of you that saw it in the Theater and spent full price on it, but diving movies don't come out every day.
I liked it mainly because cave diving really interests me, but I will in NO WAY ever do it. Just not my thing. So, the tight spaces, out of air, dark grades, hours of deco, and just everything else that went on kept me watching. HOWEVER, watching Deep Blue Sea did nothing for me. I, like most of you, see a Reef Shark and know you are going to be just fine. So stuck out in the water bobbing around for a bit doesn't keep me entertained.
I do see the need to "Holleywood-ize" the movie for entertainment purposes, but they did go quite overboard sometimes and went pretty off from the story that it was based on. Sure, it is cave diving... maybe a few people won't make it out, but stick a little closer to the real deal.
As for the hose that busted on the Rebreather from the first fatality, I don't know a whole lot about Rebreathers, but I would guess that it wouldn't have happened exactly that way. A leak maybe, but not to the point of busting out.
I am an SSI Inst. so I couldn't have missed that fat SSI Logo on the suit if I tried. I got a little chuckle out of that one! IMO, SSI taught her right, but she chose not to follow the standards!
And I have to agree with everyone else that they did an OK job at helping even non-divers enjoy this movie by giving them some basic things, but they kind of also let people astray on others. Watch, I will jump in the pool with my next class and see someone hauling butt accross the bottom with just his cyl, trying to breathe off of it... Oh well... I am sure there are a whole mess of movies I have seen out there about other things I know NOTHING about and thought they were pretty sweet, but someone who has half a brain on the subject could sit and debate it for hours.
All, in all... it kept me entertained. Now that it is out on DVD, I would have to tell you to at least go out and spend your $1 on it and let the rest of us kow what you think.
First, I have to say that I am glad another movie about diving was made! That in itself was pretty cool. I do feel sorry for those of you that saw it in the Theater and spent full price on it, but diving movies don't come out every day.
I liked it mainly because cave diving really interests me, but I will in NO WAY ever do it. Just not my thing. So, the tight spaces, out of air, dark grades, hours of deco, and just everything else that went on kept me watching. HOWEVER, watching Deep Blue Sea did nothing for me. I, like most of you, see a Reef Shark and know you are going to be just fine. So stuck out in the water bobbing around for a bit doesn't keep me entertained.
I do see the need to "Holleywood-ize" the movie for entertainment purposes, but they did go quite overboard sometimes and went pretty off from the story that it was based on. Sure, it is cave diving... maybe a few people won't make it out, but stick a little closer to the real deal.
As for the hose that busted on the Rebreather from the first fatality, I don't know a whole lot about Rebreathers, but I would guess that it wouldn't have happened exactly that way. A leak maybe, but not to the point of busting out.
I am an SSI Inst. so I couldn't have missed that fat SSI Logo on the suit if I tried. I got a little chuckle out of that one! IMO, SSI taught her right, but she chose not to follow the standards!
And I have to agree with everyone else that they did an OK job at helping even non-divers enjoy this movie by giving them some basic things, but they kind of also let people astray on others. Watch, I will jump in the pool with my next class and see someone hauling butt accross the bottom with just his cyl, trying to breathe off of it... Oh well... I am sure there are a whole mess of movies I have seen out there about other things I know NOTHING about and thought they were pretty sweet, but someone who has half a brain on the subject could sit and debate it for hours.
All, in all... it kept me entertained. Now that it is out on DVD, I would have to tell you to at least go out and spend your $1 on it and let the rest of us kow what you think.
Hillmorton Scubie
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Just seen it.
We can't work out if the guy at the end survives or is it a dream of survival (the beach) as he asphixiates.
Thanks ?
We can't work out if the guy at the end survives or is it a dream of survival (the beach) as he asphixiates.
Thanks ?
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