Was THE DEEP filmed in Australia?
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 to...