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The James Cameron Movie That Was Actually Filmed Underwater
The James Cameron Movie That Was Actually Filmed Underwater 20th Century Studios
Back in 1989, James Cameron made a groundbreaking movie called
The Abyss. It starred Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn in a story in which a U.S. nuclear submarine crashes, leading a Navy SEAL recovery team to ally with the crew of an experimental, submersible oil rig called Deep Core to beat the Soviets to the U.S.S. Montana. The oil rig crew discovers a non-terrestrial intelligence (NTI) during an initial investigation. To make matters worse, they get cut off from their surface support due to a hurricane that knocks a cable crane over, dragging the rig to the edge of a huge trench, partially flooding its interior and killing members of the crew. The separate teams soon find that their goals are at odds with one another when some the SEALS bring aboard a nuclear Trident missile warhead salvaged from t