Discussion about Depth and other movies

[Ashtoreth]

I think that I might have found something relevant about the story of "Depth".

Spoiler below!

I was rereading the characters information available in the casting calls from February and May*, and Martin Fisher's description states that he's a "Mechatronics Wrangler / Large Frame Toolpusher". I wasn't familiar with these terms, so I looked up "toolpusher" and it turns out that it's a specific job within the oil drilling industry.

* It might have been just a coincidence, but this casting call got removed the day after I posted about it in the SOMA discussion thread (probably because it revealed too many spoilers, including information about which characters die on-screen). It's not even available on Google's cache anymore. Fortunately, I saved a copy of the page before it was taken down.


A few photos from the set show the actors covered in a black substance, and there's also the Lambda mug filled with a black viscous liquid, which resembles petroleum:

More photos (only 4 images per post are allowed):
http://iconosquare.com/p/770449264141774798_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/770465471116979505_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/772958496141454769_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/773513260189199448_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/773719811063656072_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/773721987412504238_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/775820956192059263_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/776550560615739268_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/777172475202088929_43407154
http://iconosquare.com/p/777172749199192042_43407154

This means that there was some deepwater subsea oil drilling work going on in PATHOS-II...

I wonder how significant this is to the film's plot, and if it will have any importance in SOMA at all.