The Abyss (Page 1 of 2)

Whew, man, am I resuscitating a thread here or what? To make things worse, I'm doing it so that I can be That Guy.

I watched The Abyss with my Mom last night, who has been a cardiac nurse lo these 15 or so years. Today I'm listening to the commentary, and you mention that it's dumb of the characters to keep doing CPR for so long on Linds. While we were watching the movie, my Mom thought it was dumb of them to stop doing CPR so soon. She explained that when somebody is hypothermic and extremely cold, they are able to be resuscitated for a longer period than you would expect, sometimes as long as ten or fifteen minutes without brain damage. So, in her opinion, they should have done CPR and occasional defibs in shifts for a solid fifteen minutes before declaring her dead.

She did agree with whatever nameless EMT you mentioned who said that they should be trying to warm her up first and foremost, though.

She does not condone slapping the corpse.

Medical accuracy ftw.

Looks like Cameron is trying to make a dive to the real Abyss.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02 … ?hpt=hp_c1

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

I remember seeing a deep-sea special about tubeworms that live near these deep-sea vents. They were in this little sub thing that was specially built to withstand tremendous amounts of pressure, with windows that were like 6 inches thick and the structure was reinforced in like 5 different ways and all this stuff. The guy piloting the thing was all "ok, we're going to get closer to the vents, but not too close, because if we get within X feet from the vent, our windows will melt and our sub will go from having 20 square feet of space to 2 in about half a second" and I was like "I will never ever do that ever".

James Cameron is braver than I. Space and deep sea exploration would scare the shit out of me. If I ever found myself suddenly in a deep sea sub or on a space station, I would probably spend a couple hours just pissing myself and vomiting before I had the nerve to look out the window.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLr15BBBtrc

Here's a BBC documentary about someone who was dead for over an hour in the ice and was brought back to life

http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/jame … gn=rssnws1

Crazy Jim.

Well, he's down there.

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

That's a low blow. Trey doesn't spend ALL his money that way.

Concept Art from The Abyss

The 7 mile down club is very exclusive.

Are you using the right version? I believe this is the directors edition they are using.

so I played forward a bit in the movie and the part that it's supposed to sync up with is about 3 minutes later.  It's when Lindsey is developing film and Bud takes the black curtain off the port hole.  The Garfield Suction toy is right there.