Poseidon

Trivia: The opening shot of the film is the most expensive shot ever produced using CGI, costing at around $2.5million.

Trivia: The UK poster of the ship underwater isn't actually the Poseidon. It's actually the P&O Ferry lines Arcadia II. This is because they hadn't designed the ship when the poster was released.

Trivia: According to Entertainment Weekly, the CGI Poseidon is 218 feet longer than the Titanic, which would make it 1100½ feet long, 31½ feet shorter than the Queen Mary 2.

Trivia: Some reviews address the presence of a life raft with a flare gun inside. Life rafts are stored in containers which are lashed to deck with a hydrostatic release unit (HRU). Such a unit contains a weak link and a blade; the latter cuts the weak link at sufficient hydrostatic pressure when a ship sinks (or capsizes). The container is then free to float to the surface; a painter line, attached to the ship will activate and inflate the raft. A flare gun is inside as part of an emergency pack.

Trivia: During the filming of the scene where Robert drowns, Kurt Russell really started drowning.

Factual error: When performing CPR on Elena, Robert doesn't tilt her head back. As a former firefighter, he would know one of the first steps of CPR is to tilt the victim's head back to clear the airway. His rhythm is also way off.

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Suggested correction: Tilting the head back to clear the airway isn't practised any more, due to exacerbating possible neck/spinal injuries. Instead, one would do a chin lift to clear the airway. But alas, he didn't do that either.

Paramedic here. The head tilt-chin lift is absolutely still practised today and is definitely our go to manoeuvre for CPR. You're thinking of the jaw thrust manoeuvre where we do it when we suspect spinal injury, which Elena did not have.

Former Volunteer First Responder and Ambulance driver part-time but also volunteer here. It actually depends on the SOP of the company in which you serve. Liability purpose has us practising caution in otherwise duty-to-act scenarios. While you are always to remain either Red Cross or American Heart certified in CPR, ALS guidelines and SOPs still govern the practice in which you are performing and can be effected by the decisions of your local Medical Director, but I digress.

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Lucky Larry: What the hell did you go and do to all these people?

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Answer: According to him, yes: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BOX+office%3A+Making+drowning+an+art+form%3B+Kurt+Russell+tells+Robin...-a0146253600.

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