Wight initially wanted to film Sanctum in real caves, so filmmakers searched all over the world for the perfect spot. Then a flash flood cuts off the entrance and everything goes to hell. Billionaire Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd), who is funding the expedition, brings along his girlfriend Victoria (Alice Parkinson) to check out the caves. In the film, diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) is trying to map a previously unexplored cave system he's enlisted his 17-year-old son, expert climber and reluctant volunteer Josh (Rhys Wakefield), to help.

This real-life event was the inspiration for Sanctum, out February 4. People who you thought might become the heroes and the leaders of the group don't necessarily do what you think they're going to do, and others rise to the occasion.' The struggle to survive was the thing that really struck me. 'It was one of those moments where you come very close to your own demise and afterward you start reflecting on what has happened. 'It took nearly two days to find a new way out of the cave,' Wight says. I turned my head sharply.In 1988, Andrew Wight was leading an expedition of 14 people in exploring a large underwater cave in Australia's Nullarbor Plains when a storm flooded the entrance and caused the cave to collapse, trapping them inside.

Suddenly upon my right, I was aware of something utterly unexpected and boding mortal peril. “The yellow-lighted car drew near and I increased my pace towards the pavement, perhaps twenty feet away. I thought I had just time to cross the road before it arrived and I started to do so in the prepossession-wholly unwarranted- that my only dangers were from the left. “About 200 yards away were the yellow headlights of an approaching car. I no sooner got out of the cab somewhere about the middle of the road and told the driver to wait than I instinctively turned my eyes to the left. But at this moment habit played me a deadly trick.

I did not think the task I set myself now either difficult or rash.

He said: “In England, we frequently cross roads along which fast traffic is moving in both directions. He added: “Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass…For the rest – live dangerously take things as they come dread naught, all will be well.” As well as writing his opinions on death, Churchill goes into detail about how the accident occurred.

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