Facts about 'Pirates of the Carribean'.

Interesting facts and figures about the shooting during the making of Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End:-

The production's travel coordinator had booked over 10,000 one way tickets, not including charter flights.·
475 cell phones were distributed in Dominica.
550 barrels had been built by set dressing.· 178 barrels of smoke had been used by the special effects department.
Over 6,000 batteries were used by the sound department.
At one time there were over 200 walkie-talkies being used on set by various departments.
Between ship rigging, marine, set decoration and props, production used over 463,000 feet of rope…which translates into 87 miles!
Between the first, second and element units, 335 miles of film had been shot…enough to stretch from Los Angeles to Sacramento.
Catering served over 200,000 meals.
The movie is inspired from one the more popular rides at Disneyland, one of the last ones which Walt Disney was closely involved in designing.
The name of the pirate boat in the ride is ‘The Wicked Wench’, not the Black Pearl.
The kraken is originally said to have lived in the seas of Norway and Iceland, not in the Caribbean as is shown in the movie.

source: Writing Studio