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Locations (page under development) The Belafonte (gallery)
According to a recent owner of the ship,
the vessel was a minesweeper commissioned as HMS Packington
by the British Navy and built by Harland and Wolffe. She was
launched on July 3, 1958 but was sold to the
South African Navy in 1959. Her name was changed to SAS Walvisbaai. She was retired in 2001 and purchased from the South African Navy by the Walt Disney Company for the production of The Life Aquatic
in July 2003. She was sailed from Cape Town, South Africa, to
Gibraltar (U.K.) for conversion and continued on to Naples, Italy for
filming. She was most recently docked at Malta before sailing for Dubai
c. December 2005. She is 150 feet long and 23 feet wide.
Source: Maritime Sales and the Ton Class Association. A very special thanks to Rik.
Other Locations
Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy (studio)
- Florence, Italy
- Marineland, Antibes, France (website)
- Naples, Italy
- Rome, Italy
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Life Aquatic Criterion Collection DVD
Life Aquatic
soundtrack
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