įilming the Deez took place over a number of different locations: The deck is a constant 'soccer riot' where the smokers play 500-a-side rugby, trampling each other underfoot. In his final script Rader envisioned The Deez as a grimy, soot-covered husk where an entire city had been built out of old shipping containers. During the numerous rewrites of the script, the Smokers evolved and their base naturally transformed into the ruin of an oil tanker. The original script was much more brutal than the finished product, and accordingly the pirate base was filled with the corpses of their victims, and torture devices. In Peter Rader's original film scripts, the pirate's main base of operations was not a tanker but merely a large flotilla of ships lashed together. The tanker in the film is actually an original design, not based on the real tanker.
It was chosen for the environmental connotations, and how fitting this would be to the Smokers, but there were also concerns about if this could be controversial. It was a last minute decision by the film crew of Waterworld to name The Deez the Exxon Valdez. The tanker which had been the Exxon Valdez, finally named the Oriental Nicety and operating in Asia, was deliberately beached off the coast of Alang, India in 2012, to be broken up for scrap. The tanker was retrieved, repaired and went through a number of owners and names (it was actually named the Sea River Mediterranean and operating in Europe during the time of filming Waterworld). The captain, Joe Hazelwood, was accused of being drunk which caused the spill. At the time it was registered to Valdez, Alaska. This was a super-tanker involved in a real-world massive oil spill off the coast of Alaska in the late 1980s. When The Deez sinks, the wording on the back reveals it to be the Exxon Valdez.
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