THE DEEP Filming Locations

Jacqueline Bisset next to an almost forgotten painting by French Impressionist Pierre Bonnard (Source  Sony Pictures ). When The Deep  Production Designer Tony Masters , finished David ( Nick Nolte ) and Gail's ( Jacqueline Bisset )  Orange Grove Hotel  interior, the set revealed Bermuda's coastal palette and paintings by artists known for their use of intense colour, light, and  Impressionism  in " plein air ". Bermuda "vast turquoise", "lush greenery", "almost unnaturally colorful beauty"  (Source  Sony Pictures ). Producer Peter Guber wanted  The Deep  to be portrayed in "jewel-like color" and when the production arrived in Bermuda, in August 1976, saturated colour was everywhere. Bermuda was a "lovely island ... in the full flush of summer", "gorgeous pink", "vast turquoise", "rainbow-colored", "lush greenery", "peaceful ... bobbing boats" "twinkling across the...

Almost all of the scenes inside the wreck of Goliath, including the eel, were filmed at the world's Biggest Underwater Set (BUS), a purpose built underwater soundstage at Ireland Island South, Bermuda. The BUS looking west from above The Lagoon (Source  Sony Pictures ) The location has no specific postal address but lies on top a hill once called "Hospital Island" above a private home at 17 Malabar Rd, Sandys MA 01, Bermuda .  There is a secret buried at the summit of  Lagoon Road and Heydon Road . Most who pass by never notice the crumbling narrow driveway that disappears into the forest. The entry seems to go nowhere and the old stone wall unfurls all the way down to the Great Sound. But this mysterious place has one of the most layered histories in all of Bermuda. Remnants of the past continue to reveal themselves including traces of a long gone Royal Naval Hospital and  The Deep  underwater soundstage. 1976 - The Deep BUS on the hill formerly kno...