2 x 1.2 million litre pools for 3-month duration
2.4 million litres
Frogger landed in Australia during the COVID pandemic. With much of the world shut down, Australia was briefly a safe haven for large international projects as our isolation kept COVID at bay. Frogger was filmed in Homebush, Sydney, with our part of the project taking 3 months from start to finish. The two pools were built inside a massive warehouse complex at Sydney Olympic Park using scaffolding to build the structure. The pools were lined in timber before a vinyl liner was installed. Each pool held 1.2 million litres of water, and, being mid-winter, this water had to be heated to 30 degrees to allow divers to carry out complex underwater work for weeks on end.
Show Water designed a custom commercial filtration system that was installed over several days, with two commercial heat pumps supplied to keep the water warm. The water was kept at 30 degrees for the duration of the project.
The biggest challenge on this project was the contamination of the water from the set pieces. Due to the timeframe from conception to filming, there was not enough time or budget to paint the steel structures that we used to hold the set; these structures rusted rapidly, which then washed off into the water, staining it brown and becoming a constant maintenance issue.
