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- The Abyss, 1989. Jim Cameron’s ocean epic and a solid diver favourite. Liquid breathing, submersible battles, Navy SEALs with HPNS and alien water tentacles.
- The Deep, 1977. Jacqueline Bisset in a bikini, and a (young) buff Nick Nolte making diving cool and sexy. Written by Peter ‘Jaws’ Benchley, this thriller sees a vacationing couple duke it out with treasure hunting bad guys on a Bermuda wreck.
- Thunderball, 1965. Connery, back as Bond, heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads and try his luck with the wet suit clad ladies. Cue huge underwater battles and more one liners than you can shake a martini at.
- The Big Blue, 1988. Director Luc Besson’s cult classic, and the most successful French movie of the 80s. Artfully shot in Greece, the 162 minute epic follows the friendship and rivalry of two champion free divers.
- The Abyss (1989) An epic adventure film thrusting a team of civilian divers and Navy SEALs to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a search-and-rescue mission for a sunken nuclear submarine.
- Le Grand Blue (The Big Blue) (1988) The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into the unknown.
- The Deep (1977) Deep-sea divers vie with a Haitian drug dealer to recover a trunkload of sunken morphine. Based on Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel of the same name.
- Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014) In James Cameron’s dramatic fulfilment of a childhood dream, he pilots a submersible he designed on a dive 11km (7mi) beneath the ocean surface.
Jul 21, 2023 · At the beginning of the film, there’s a stunning sequence of Alessia diving during a competition, descending deep underwater, then resurfacing under dramatic circumstances.
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- 8 min
- Staff Writer
- Meredith Blake
- Thai Cave Rescue
- No Limit
- Seahorse Man
- Also on Netflix (with Apologies For Some of Its Synopses)
The real-life plot has proved irresistible to film-makers, though many of you might feel you’ve now had more than enough of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue of the young Thai footballers, what with the documentaries, the books and Ron Howard’s definitive Hollywood take. Also read: Dive Odyssey: Behind the Scenes I went into this six-part Thai-led dr...
One for the freedivers, this French movie was inspired by the life of Audrey Mestre. I well remember the vitriolic response to her shocking death on a 2002 dive, directed mainly towards her husband, Cuban freediving star Pipin Ferreras. Conspiracy theories abounded, fanned by the intriguing book The Last Attemptby former friend Carlos Serra in 2007...
This documentary narrated by the late John Hurt came out seven years ago but has only recently surfaced on Netflix. It follows marine biologist Kealan Doyle as he investigates the traditional-medicine trade in seahorses in pre-pandemic China, and we share his shock as, visit by visit, he comes to realise the enormous scale of the problem. More than...
47 Metres Down (2017, 1hr 29min) “With little oxygen left in their scuba tanks [sorry!], two sisters are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean while great whites circle nearby.” If you haven’t already, you have to see this to believe it. Or don't. Chasing Coral (2019, 1hr 29min) “Divers, scientists and photographers around the world mo...
- Steve Weinman
Nov 28, 2023 · There never was a more creepy dive than The Deep House. (Photo courtesy of MGM) The Deep House is basically a haunted house movie underwater. Starring Mick Jagger’s son, James Jagger, There is plenty of creepiness here to make this not only a good scuba diving movie, but a good Halloween movie as well.
Apr 12, 2020 · Jago – A Life Underwater. Jago is an award-winning documentary about Rohani, an 80-year-old Indonesian hunter who free dives for fish, and has done his whole life. Jago tells Rohani’s story from childhood to his mastery of the art of living life beneath the sea.
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