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Was THE DEEP filmed in Australia?

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The shark frenzy above the wreck of  Goliath   was filmed at multiple locations edited together to look like a single place. The same editing technique was used to create the  Orange Grove Hotel  and  St. David's Lighthouse . The shark frenzy filming locations were: The Coral Sea, Australia, including, "Action Point" at the north end of  Marion Reef ,  Diamond Islets , and  Lihou Reefs , The world's  Biggest Underwater Set (BUS)  at Ireland Island South, Bermuda, and, The bow section of the  RMS Rhone  shipwreck at Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands. In his 2002 autobiographical thriller, Shark Trouble , Peter Benchley described escaping a pack of agitated bull sharks, with his wife Wendy and eleven-year old son Clayton, off Long Island  in the Bahamas.  Wendy, Peter, and Clayton Benchley, with Roy Scheider on the set of Jaws 1974 ( Source Universal Pictures via  Shark Trouble ). The trio huddled together and, blasting bubbles from their regulators, slowly as