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.

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Plot hole: When the ship has turned on its side for the brief moment, it cuts to inside the ship where a hallway explodes, causing the ship to submerge. The only problem is the people are standing on the ceiling, but if the ship's on its side, they'd be on the wall, not ceiling.

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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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