This Thursday finally hit theaters "Megalodon 2: The great abyss", sequel to the blockbuster hit 2018, which starred Jason Statham.

Again with Statham at the helm, Warner Studios revealed some curious facts about the filming made in Thailand and about the nature of the fearsome "villain" of the film.

First, in addition to Thailand, the Leavesden studies were used, owned by Warner Bros..

It is worth remembering that in the summer of 2018, date the first part was released, the box office yielded a total of 530 Millions of dollars raised worldwide.

To create the Island of Fun from the movie, the production primarily used the beach/party venue Paradise Beach, en Phuket, which featured a picturesque beach with a jungle backdrop. The design team built key elements such as a pier and restaurant to create their luxurious resort destination..

Likewise, in the filming of all the sequences in water —which required some 40 boats and more than 200 crew members—the production used a hotel near Paradise Beach that featured a private dock. This space allowed the work team to anchor the boats in a safe and appropriate manner..

In order to record the actors during their work underwater, it was shot on stage D in Leavesden, which has a tank six meters deep and twenty wide.

About megalodons

the megalodon (What does "big tooth" mean?) was the largest shark of all time—and one of the largest fish that ever lived—weighing up to 50 tons and more than 18 meters long, which made it about three times larger than the current white shark. They lived between 23 Y 3,6 millions of years.

These specimens were first described in 1835 by American naturalist Louis Agassiz, who named the species.

The megalodon size estimate is based on the discovery of its fossilized teeth: never found a “skeleton” full of a megalodon. It is estimated that his jaw spanned 2.7 by 3.4 meters wide… which means it could swallow two grown people together, one beside the other.

Fossilized teeth of this species have been found on the coasts of all continents. (except in Antarctica). These teeth are similar to those of the great white: triangular with jagged edges.

Sharks—including megalodons—produce teeth throughout their lives.; they lose a game every week or two and can produce up to 40,000 teeth for life. The teeth are in rows, like conveyor belts, and when you lose a tooth, the substitute is pushed forward. All those teeth fall to the bottom of the ocean and it is very likely that some will become fossils..

Fossilized megalodon vertebrae have also been discovered, the size of a large plate.

The megalodon's bite force is estimated to be three times that of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and could easily have crushed a car.

Megalodon females are believed to have given birth near the coast, to ward off predators in open water. With the formation of ice at the poles and the drop in sea level, these megalopod nurseries would have been destroyed.

There is no chance that megaloptera survived to the present day.. Evidence for this would include bite marks on other large marine life and an ongoing collection of thousands of teeth piled up on the ocean floor.. The belief that they still exist in the greatest depths of the ocean is not supported by science., since the cold temperatures of those depths would not allow the existence of warm water species.