Harris also mentions that he almost drowned at one point during filming because one of the dive team gave Harris his regulator to get him some air, but the diver put it in his mouth upside down, so Harris was breathing half air and half water. As Lindsey says early on, "One in four people can't handle it. They just go buggo. However, Coffey turned out to be that one in four who did suffer from the condition.
Also, Coffey, despite being a SEAL and having gone through some of the toughest military training there is, might not have had the opportunity to dive to the depth for this mission.
Also, consider the pressure Coffey suddenly found himself dealing with: after being ordered by his superior to salvage nuclear bomb from the Montana and possibly detonate it, Coffey slowly starts to lose his judgment and reasoning, partially because of the HPNS and also because he's being saddled with an immense responsibility: to destroy anyone or anything that can be deemed a threat to the mission and to do it with a weapon that will destroy him along with the enemy.
He's also cut off from his superior officer on the Benthic Explorer and has to begin making serious command decisions on his own. With reports of Soviet forces moving into the area, possibly to steal the warheads from the sub and after Lindsay insists she saw an alien, Coffey believes everything to be a threat.
When the water tentacle appears, Coffey is convinced the NTIs are after the nuclear warhead that they salvaged, and insists they must be destroyed. The team is heavily against this idea, and they become yet another threat to Coffey himself. When Lindsey explains the symptoms of HPNS, Coffey says that they have all been briefed about it, that his team has been checked and they turned out okay.
He never says that HE has been checked. The mission could have been so delicate and urgent that they simply needed their best man to lead the team, to ensure he would fulfill the mission to the very end.
Perhaps only Coffey was a viable candidate and there was simply no time to get him checked first. It's quite possible that Coffey himself had never gone to a depth of approximately feet before.
Additionally, Coffey was placed under a tremendous amount of pressure by his commanding officer, Commodore DeMarco, when he was ordered to retrieve the nuclear warhead and arm it. There's a short scene where he's given the order just after the rig crew and his team make contact with the aliens AND he's told by his commanding officer that a Soviet submarine might be in the area. At that point, DeMarco tells him to go into war mode. Saddling a lieutenant with that much responsibility could also contribute to Coffey's psychosis.
Firstly, Coffey and the team probably didn't know that the Deepcore team needed the claw on Flatbed to unhook the umbilical cable from the rig. Though it's plausible that they'd have been briefed fully on the operations and procedures by Lindsey, Bud and the crew, when they arrived on the rig, the writers may have just left this out for the convenience of the plot-if Coffey hadn't taken Flatbed, then we wouldn't have the disaster and story that follows.
Also, Coffey is a strictly by-the-book officer and felt that he didn't have to ask permission from Bud or Lindsey or anyone before he took the sub. However, in a deleted scene that was restored for the theatre and home video release, we see precisely why the SEALs wanted Flatbed: it's much larger and has more power than the smaller subs, plus it has the mechanical arm and claw. If you watch the deleted scene closely, you'll see that Coffey is piloting Flatbed and is using the claw to hold the Trident missile up while the rest of the team removes the warhead.
Presumably, the team needed the claw to open the missile hatch and lift the missile itself, something they couldn't do without the largest mini-sub in the rig's fleet. This may be because of the film rating at the time. When it was first released, The Abyss had a PG certification, so only so much violence and gore could be shown. Another possibility is that Cameron didn't want to show any gore, or as little blood and gore as possible, and that's why there is no blood in the bubbles as Coffey's ship implodes.
Just like Lindsey says, swimming in freezing cold water can slow the body's metabolism drastically. This is called cold water drowning. There are rare but documented accounts of people surviving drowning for extreme lengths of time. One year-old man survived for 38 minutes under water. Deep hypothermia is used in medicine, especially during surgeries which require stopping circulation for repairs, such as Aortic Arch reconstruction and giant cerebral aneurysm clippings.
The body is cooled to less than 18 degrees Celsius and the heart is stopped. Studies have shown this can be done up to 45 minutes without neural damage. According to the novelization of The Abyss, the NTIs preserved Lindsey's life because they had perceived her good nature through their first contact. A hint of this can be seen in the film as a blue glow that emanates from the moonpool after our heroes believe Lindsey is dead.
Believing Bud to be dead at the bottom of the trench, Lindsey is astonished when he suddenly starts texting her again. You're going to love this. Then again, some of the greatest strengths of The Abyss in either cut are mundane.
Here, the supporting cast has more room to come to life, and the crew of the Deep Core resembles a family bonded by their difficult situation. Two characters in particular benefit from the added time: Hippy Todd Graff , a conspiracy theorist with a pet rat, and One Night Kimberly Scott , a crew member whose protectiveness of Bud, and lack of fondness for Lindsey, gets more screen time here.
The scene in which Bud throws his titanium wedding ring in the toilet, then retrieves it seconds later is now preceded by a fight that better explains his frustration. Later, the ring saves his life by stopping a door. Cameron is never particularly subtle about his symbolism, but he uses it effectively. But can the same be said of its weakest elements? While the theatrical cut lets this drop, the Special Edition runs with the idea.
The Abyss becomes not just a small story about the life-and-death struggle of an oil-rig crew, but a story about the survival of the planet itself. Those waves are holding in place, as if waiting for orders. The implication: The NTIs are perfectly happy to wipe out humanity. As an answer, Bud is shown a greatest-misses montage of 20th-century atrocities, from Hitler to Vietnam. Bud is again shown his act of self-sacrifice.
This is a tough call. By , effects had advanced sufficiently to meet his standards, but they still look a little cheesy. Going with the Special Edition means swallowing a certain amount of cheese, visual and otherwise. Newsreel Essential Podcast The Writers. Why the split? It discusses the collision of a NATO warship with another vessel.
A third news report was also added to increase the focus on the tension building up between world superpowers. The report discusses Soviet, NATO, and military buildups around the globe and also includes interviews with citizens.
New scene showing Coffey and his men opening the missile hatch to retrieve a nuclear weapon from the sunken navy submarine. Once the rig has come to rest on the edge of the abyss after the accident with the crane, a new scene shows Bud, Hippy, and One Night surveying the damage using an ROV.
They locate a wrecked minisub and a dead crewman. Hippy asks if they are just going to leave him there, and Bud replies that they have to worry about restoring power and getting air first.
While Bud and One Night are doing repairs in the moon pool, their conversation is extended to include talking about Bud and Lindsey's relationship. Bud talks about how they first met and some of the details leading to their breakup.
A new scene shows Coffey confronting the crew about their recent contact with the NTI's. Coffey refuses to believe that there are really aliens down there, he thinks that they are actually Russian war bogeys.
New scene showing Coffey staring out into the water from one of the rig's windows. Just before the "water tentacle" sequence, a brief scene has been inserted showing Lindsey bringing a drink to the injured navy soldier. Once the crew has caught on to Coffey's plan, a new scene shows Hippy walking down a passageway and finding the warhead missing from Coffey's room.
We then see Coffey carrying the warhead down a hallway. A new scene involving discussion about the NTI's. Lindsey suggests that the aliens may be from outer space, and that their home planet may have similar conditions as the abyss: extreme cold and intense pressure. When Lindsey is talking to Bud over the intercom during his descent, Lindsey talks for a bit and then says "sorry, I'm rambling.
During Bud's descent into the abyss, the pressure beings to affect him and his link with the surface. In the original film when the crew realizes something is wrong, they ask if Bud can still hear them, and his typed response is just gibberish. A brief new bit of dialogue has been inserted just before this: Bud types "you're going away" and Linsdey replies "No I'm not, I'm right here, Bud.
The sequence with the aliens in their underwater ship has been greatly extended and now involves a whole extra twist to the plot. When Bud is taken inside their ship, they show him an assortment of images on a giant screen. Bud realizes that the aliens can pick up our television signals and have been monitoring our TV stations. The next report is a seismologist discussing heavy seismic signals coming from the earth's oceans towards the coasts of every continent. Bud is then shown an image of yet another TV report, this time an on-location report on a beach where an enormous tidal wave, thousands of feet high, is heading towards the shore.
People are running and screaming in panic as the wave gets closer. Bud realizes that it is the aliens who are controlling this wave: "you guys are doing this! You have the power to control water! Bud realizes that the aliens are concerned about the recent military buildup and the possibility of a nuclear war. He asks "where do you get off passing judgment on us? How do know they'll actually do it? This shows that the aliens have monitored our TV for many years and know that mankind has a tendancy for war.
We then see shots of the huge tidal wave increasing in size and approaching coastlines all over the world, including New York and San Francisco. People are panicking and fleeing in terror, and then the wave suddenly slows to a stop and hangs in the air, seemingly suspended in time.
Citizens stare in awe at the giant wave, and then it begins receed and back away from the coast. People shout and cheer as the wave moves away. Bud turns to the aliens and asks "you could've done it, why didn't you?
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