you watch the abyss and you wonder how they filmed some of these sequences without anybody dying. unfortunately the answer to that question is “barely”

— jacob 🎄 (@jacobdotgov) December 11, 2022

Ayup. People literally drowned and were revived during the making of that film. I couldn’t find it again, but I think I remember an interview from the late 1990s with one of the actors from The Abyss. The interviewer said, “You looked like you were dying in that scene.”

And the response was, “That’s because I was dying.”