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James Cameron spent ‘10-11 hours a day’ underwater to make The Abyss, which sounds terrible
Behind-the-scenes stories from the set of James Cameron’s The Abyss are nearly as coveted by longtime fans of the aquatic odyssey as the movie itself. A majority of the 1989 film was shot in enormous water tanks, and the labor of both performing and diving each day led the cast to experience multiple emotional breakdowns. Much of the endurance test is well-documented, but Cameron clearly has a few things left to say.