This screening includes The Abyss
- Date and time:
- Sun, March 11, 2018, From 6:30–8:50 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 20 min
- Cost:
- $4 all tickets.
Series: First Contact, Science on Screen
About The Abyss
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1989
- Genres:
- Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
- Metadata:
Following the unexplainable sinking of an American nuclear submarine, a civilian oil-platform crew is called to assist with a deep-sea government search-and-rescue mission. Soon enough the crew starts to suspect they are dealing with more than a sea maneuver gone wrong. One diver (Ed Harris) finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean’s surface where he confronts a mysterious force that seems to have intentions for Earth and its inhabitants. At the time, The Abyss was one of the most expensive films ever made with a budget of $70 million. It went on to take home the Oscar® for Best Visual Effects in 1990. This screening will be the original theatrical version. (Digital Presentation)
IU Academic Diving Program instructor Chloe Strauss' introduction will discuss deep-water exploration use of mixed gases and experiments with breathing oxygenated liquids due to density of breathing gases at depths impossible for human lungs.