New James Cameron movie--on cave diving!

[Squirrel Girl]

http://moviemazz.blogspot.com/2009/1...n-project.html

Hollywood heavyweight James Cameron's 3D underwater epic Sanctum starts filming on the Gold Coast this Friday with local and international film crews busy making final preparations.
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Sanctum follows a father and his teenage son as they navigate a treacherous cave-diving exploration gone wrong.
The story is based on the near-death experience of producer Andrew Wight, whom Grierson said has brought a sense of ``realism and authenticity'' to the project.

[xsikorsky]

another link.. http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/...oast-news.html

[RN]

I'm still waiting for the trailer they filmed with Jill Heinerth at Devil's several months ago. She described it to me and it sounds like some really kick butt footage!

[tomhauburn]

During Avatar they had some previews what showed some divers. I think at the time I had my 3 d glasses off and by the time I put them back on it was done. Did anyone else see that clip? It could a have been the Ear but it was so short and brief with out my glasses I could not see well enough.

[RN]

Some filming was done in Devil's.

[Bill Rotella]

Well since the release date is in 2012.........I hope it is well before December 21, 2012!

[icestac]

Well since the release date is in 2012.........

Weird, IMDB shows release date as 2010 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881320/

We can hope...

[aainslie]

Who the hell is Andrew Wight? Does anyone know what his "near death experience" was? Did his snorkel get caught in the line?

[jmaddox]

great! now we have a James Cameron movie that shows the world that we're all just a bunch of wackos... in 3D none the less. I hate publicity. Guess nice, safe, clean cave dives don't sell movies. : (

[ynot]

Who the hell is Andrew Wight? Does anyone know what his "near death experience" was? Did his snorkel get caught in the line?

Aus cave diver who led a cave diving expedition into Pannikin Plains Cave on the Nullarbor Plains in Aus in 1988 (or thereabouts)

They were filming a doco (Nullarbor Dreaming) as well as exploring. Mainly Aus divers but also included Rob Palmer and Wes Skiles. The water on the Nullarbor is about 90m below the surface and in this cave a few 100m into the cave. Towards the end of the expedition when hauling gear out, there was a freak storm which dumped inches of rain in a short period of time. The cave doline acted as a bath tub outlet for the surrounding plain and the water poured in causing part of the cave entrance to collapse. Most of the divers were well inside the cave at the lake's edge, and were "trapped" there for 24 hours or more until the cave stopped "moving" and they were able to negotiate a new way out. No-one was hurt

http://www.gwptv.com/Site/About%20Andrew.html

Access to the cave has been "closed" since. A pity because its the best dive out there.