darth_myeek
Sr Member
From the same creative geniuses who titled "127 Hours".
In my experience, that's not the case. My deepest dive is about 100-110 feet off the continental shelf in the Bahamas. Now, admittedly, I wasn't down that deep for very long, and most of our time was spent at between 1 and 2 atmospheres of pressure, but I didn't feel like I was being crushed. I did equalize my pressure pretty regularly, though, including equalizing the pressure on my mask (which wasn't a high volume mask anyway). The rest of me never felt crushed, though.
47m down, though -- about 150 feet -- is DEEP.
The real issue is how much time you can spend down there, though, and how likely you are to suffer from nitrogen narcosis and/or the bends. NAUI's dive tables say you shouldn't be diving at 130feet (40m) for more than 8 min without requiring a decompression stop at 15 feet depth. You'll also blow through your air a lot faster, assuming you're breathing a standard compressed air mix. And, of course, if you ascend too quickly (like if you're being chased by a shark), you will end up getting the bends. (Although, no, you won't explode at the rate most people tend to swim, though you might rupture a lung.)
Aren't there also issues with descending as fast as they appear to be in the trailer?
Was there any before?
Anyway Deep blue sea was entertaining enough.
When I was doing my Rescue Diver certification, they made use do a deep dive on regular mixture to find out exactly what depth we experienced nitrogen narcosis. My partner narced out at 110 feet. I made it only slightly deeper, 115 feet, before I was affected. The thing about it is, there's no gradual change. One foot you're fine, the next foot deeper it's like you've been drinking WAAAY too much. Watched my buddy try to pass his regular to a fish because he thought it needed to breathe. Me, I became completely disoriented and started swimming deeper - the instructor on a different mix had to swim after me, or I would have continued to my demise.
Nothing realistic about this movie whatsoever. And I have no desire to sit through 47 seconds of screaming teenagers, let alone whatever the run time of this farce is.
And stay off my lawn.
I might even rent it, but yeah an easy theatrical pass.I will definitely watch this when it comes on TV.
And can we just say to all the shark cage business owners out there: invest in a new rope every once in awhile. As Adam Savage use to say, "there's your problem.."
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To be fair, that wouldn't have been much of an issue if they actually had floats on top like normal shark cages do.