Many Would Go Into The Deep Water

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45 minutes into the newly released movie Deep Water after an airplane crashes into the ocean and strands survivors in the flotsam, a flight attendant offers to swim to one of the nearby pieces of floating fuselage. She says, “I’ve done the Waikiki Roughwater Swim three times!”

But the water is also inhabited by sharks.

The actress – a fictional Waikiki Roughwater Swim participant and real-life ocean swimmer – risks her life for the sake of the other passengers.

Admirable. Honorable. Noble.

Her act is probably an heroic act that most open water swimmers in the sport would also do – especially most of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim participants who I know.

Like the real-life hero, surfer, and Waimea Bay lifeguard Eddie Aikau who died in trying to save the crew of the voyaging canoe Hokule’a in Hawaii, I am sure many open water swimmers would go.

Deep Water

The movie Deep Water is about a group of international passengers en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai. The pilots are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. Now they must work together in hopes to overcome the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.

The flight attendant, a fictional three-time Waikiki Roughwater Swim competitor called Penny, volunteers to swim in the ocean and is played by actress Lucy Barrett. Barrett grew up in Australia, has competed in surf lifesaving competitions, and is in real life quite the competent ocean swimmer.

For more information, visit the Deep Water IMDb page here.

But it was great to hear the Waikiki Roughwater Swim being mentioned in a Hollywood film. Deep Water is currently shown in over 1,300 theaters in America as the 9th most watched film this week in the U.S. – see here.