The "snake-like" underwater robots featured in the film are real products from a Norwegian company called Eelume .
: The film's protagonist, Sofia, works for this real company, and the script was specifically written around what the Eelume robots could actually do. El mar del Norte (2021)
: Reviewers from Projected Figures noted that the film subverts genre conventions by having the female lead, Sofia, rescue her male partner, Stian, rather than the typical "damsel in distress" trope. The Burning Sea (2021) The "snake-like" underwater robots featured in the film