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Ltd., acted as marine coordinator on The Essex Serpent. "The
potential dangers are serious," he says. "The combination of fast-
moving waters and deep mud is lethal. What can start as funny—
such as being stuck in the mud or falling into water—can turn very
serious very quickly."
Stickland and his team installed a 180-foot modular pontoon
between a river channel and the location. "It not only had to
withstand six knots of tide beam on the flood tide and the app tide,
but we also had to be able to remove it quickly for certain camera
angles and then reinstall for access and egress," says Stickland.
Cracknell's cottage was on a piece of land known as a "site of
special scientific interest." Among other protections, the SSSI
designation prohibits developers from building on these properties
or from people disturbing or removing the living organisms that
call them home.
"If you delve into saltmarshes, you'll find that they are the lungs
at the edge of the sea. They are fantastic at filtering out some of
the pollutants and things," says Lawrence. "I was lucky that our DP
David Raedeker was very low key with his lighting. He wasn't the
sort of director of photography who wanted huge lighting rigs or
cranes or things like that, which definitely wouldn't have worked
there because this is a very fragile ecosystem. We had an absolute
mantra, which was supported from the producers on down, that
if you couldn't carry it, you couldn't take it on to the saltmarsh."
