Great Movies for Open Water Swimmers
A small sampling of great movies for open water swimmers include the following (locations noted):
1. Jaws (fictional Amity Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts)
2. Open Water (Great Barrier Reef)
3. Cast Away (possibly Monuriki, Fiji)
4. The Big Blue (Santorini Island in Greece, St. Croix, Taormina in Italy, etc.)
5. Titanic (sinking about 400 miles from Newfoundland, Canada filmed in Playas de Rosarito in Baja California)
6. Finding Nemo (Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Harbour)
7. The Abyss (Cayman Trough between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands)
8. The Perfect Storm (Gloucester, Massachusetts and Atlantic Canada)
9. All Is Lost (filmed in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico)
10. Waterworld (Planet Earth in 2500 A.D.)
11. Welcome (English Channel)
12. Million Dollar Mermaid
13. On A Clear Day (Port of Dover, Kent, England and Glasgow, Loch Monzie, River Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland)
14. Two Swimmers (English Channel)
15. A Daughter of the Gods (Kingston, Jamaica)
16. Neptune's Daughter (MGM Studios, Culver City, California and Weeki Wachee, Florida)
17. Agua (Santa Fe, Argentina)
18. Allt flyter (Alexanderplatz, Mitte, Berlin, Germany and Råsunda Stadium, Råsunda, Stockholms län, Sweden)
19. Bathing Beauty (Toluca Lake, California)
20. Dangerous When Wet (English Channel)
21. Duchess of Idaho (MGM Studios, Culver City, California)
22. Easy to Love (Winter Haven, Florida)
23. Invisible Wings (Hulun Buir Aimag, Inner Mongolia, China)
24. Jean Taris, Swimming Champion (France)
25. Jupiter's Darling (Wewahitchka, Florida and Los Angeles)
26. Living Is Winning (Lake Placid, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii)
27. No Breathing (Korea)
28. On an Island with You
29. Pagan Love Song (Tahiti)
30. Pride (New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana)
31. Swimfan (New Jersey, New York)
32. Swimming (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)
33. The Guardian (Alaska, Louisiana, Oregon, North Carolina, California)
34. The Swimmer (Connecticut and California)
35. Swimming Upstream (Brisbane and Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Sydney, Perth)
36. This Time for Keeps (Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan)
37. Venus of the South Seas (Golden Bay, Tasman, New Zealand)
38. Watermarks (Vienna, Austria)
39. Driven (Santa Barbara, California)
40. The Other Shore (Straits of Florida)
41. Kon-Tiki (Phuket and Khao Lak, Thailand, Maldives, Sofia, Bulgaria, Malta, New York City, Asker, Akershus and Lillehammer, Norway, and Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden)
42. Siren of the Sea
43. Diving Venus
44. Queen of the Sea
45. Winter Swimming
46. Defeating Oceans Seven (Tsugaru Channel, Japan)
47. The Other Shore (Cuba, Straits of Florida)
48. How To Swim From Cuba To Florida (Cuba, Straits of Florida)
Trailers
1. Jaws (fictional Amity Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts)
2. Open Water (Great Barrier Reef)
3. Cast Away (possibly Monuriki, Fiji)
4. The Big Blue (Santorini Island in Greece, St. Croix, Taormina in Italy, etc.)
5. Titanic (sinking about 400 miles from Newfoundland, Canada filmed in Playas de Rosarito in Baja California)
6. Finding Nemo (Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Harbour)
7. The Abyss (Cayman Trough between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands)
8. The Perfect Storm (Gloucester, Massachusetts and Atlantic Canada)
9. All Is Lost (filmed in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico)
10. Waterworld (The Planet Earth)