Being that this is Statham, I mean Jonas, his ability to pivot around death knows no bounds. "Meg 2" may feel fast-moving and, at times, ludicrous. In one scene, Jonas blows the "air out of his sinuses" to allow him to swim in the pressurized depths of the ocean without a suit or oxygen of any kind... And it works!
How long can Jason Statham hold his breath underwater?
Before filming began, we had a couple of free dives to help me figure out how to relax and retain my breath in the water. I can hold my breath for about three minutes, which isn't that hard. ... People can actually hold their breath for seven minutes because it's a reflex action.
After becoming stranded and managing to escape using one of the base's submersibles, they find that an explosion has ripped a hole in the Thermocline layer of the Trench, allowing the Megs - and other creatures - to escape.
It is no surprise there is little scientific accuracy in the film, beyond the fact that megalodon is alive and well. Perhaps most bizarrely, the deep trench is now inhabited by a species of what was once an air-breathing reptile.
The upcoming Meg 2 will feature a slightly different ecology. It is due to depict a megalodon devouring a Tyrannosaurus rex. The shark first evolved more than 40 million years after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct so, unfortunately, this clash of the iconic beasts would never have happened in reality.
THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH (How to Ruin a Franchise) EXPLORED
How did Jonas swim in the trench?
In one scene, Jonas blows the "air out of his sinuses" to allow him to swim in the pressurized depths of the ocean without a suit or oxygen of any kind... And it works!
Global water temperature dropped; that reduced the area where megalodon, a warm-water shark, could thrive. Second, because of the changing climate, entire species that megalodon preyed upon vanished forever. At the same time, competitors helped push megalodon to extinction – that includes the great white shark.
Let's look at the idea that Megalodon could be living at the bottom of the Mariana trench, the theory popularised by the “Meg” book series and its film adaptation. Sorry folks, this is impossible. For one, no shark has ever been recorded living down there, let alone one as big as a Megalodon.
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.
Is there really a thermocline in the Mariana Trench?
There is a thermocline at the base of the ocean's epipelagic zone, or sunlit zone. Once you get to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the waters are just slightly above freezing (34-39 degrees Fahrenheit) and the atmospheric pressure is around 15,000 pounds per square inch (psi).
The meg attacks a crowded beach in Sanya Bay in China. Jonas manages to wound the beast with his submersible and stabs it in the eye; its blood attracts a shiver of modern sharks that devour the dying meg.
Is the megalodon still alive? 'No. It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,' notes Emma. 'If an animal as big as megalodon still lived in the oceans we would know about it.
The female Megalodon exhibits a strong attraction to the substantial amount of blood from her deceased mate, which is difficult to overlook and implies a potential cannibalistic behavior.
StudioBinder | Tom Cruise held the record for holding his breath underwater (6 minutes) while shooting this scene in 'Rogue Nation' (2015)... until Kate...
Though Jason Statham's diving career doesn't quite match up to the huge splash he made as an actor in Hollywood, his stint as a top-level diver came in handy in several of his movie roles and helped him become the bonafide action hero he is today.
While fans love Jason Statham's on-screen tough guy persona, the actor has reportedly intimidated many with his personality. However, he is not as he might seem on the silver screen, and that's what his partner and the English model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, shared during an interview with Elle.
The deep-sea dragonfish (sometimes known as the scaleless dragonfish) has extremely large teeth in relation to its body size, and is a ferocious predator in the depths of the Mariana Trench. The deep-sea dragonfish can create its own light with help from bioluminescence.
There, researchers dredged up sediment from the Mariana Trench and isolated a new virus dubbed vB-HmeY_H4907. At those depths, the virus and anything it infects, must be able to tolerate incredibly cold temperatures, a complete lack of sunlight, crushing pressure, and minimal nutrients.
What would happen to a human in the Mariana Trench?
8 tonnes per square inch increases with depth. Any air filled crevice of the human body would collapse in the blink of an eye under this pressure. Lungs filled with air would collapse and the bones would crush. Mariana Trench is the deepest location in earth's crust.
There is simply no room, ecologically speaking, for a megalodon to exist. So, to sum everything up... Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago.
No, NASA Doesn't Have a Live Megalodon Hidden in the Atlantic Ocean. Sure would be cool if they did, though. Troubled and troublesome depression-era filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) would do just about anything to achieve fame and success.
Mature megalodons likely did not have any predators, but newly birthed and juvenile individuals may have been vulnerable to other large predatory sharks, such as great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran), whose ranges and nurseries are thought to have overlapped with those of megalodon from the end of the Miocene and ...
Leedsichthys problematicus, meaning "Alfred Leed's problem-causing fish", was another prehistoric ocean giant. Estimates put Leedsichthys at approximately 16.5m long, substantially larger than the average Megalodon. Although huge, this fish was probably a filter-feeder, not a predator.
