The atoll set was over 1/4 mile in circumference, the size of a football stadium, and contained a million tonnes of steel. When producer Charles Gordon saw the model and heard how big the real set had to be, he initially thought that the production designers were pranking him. However, it had to accommodate the size of the Mariner's trimaran, as both objects had to be in a correct proportion. The crew constructed it in sections, working 24/7 over three months, and each section required four cranes to lift it into the water. The full set was built on a rotating platform, so that when filming just off the Hawaiian coast, the camera could always film toward the open sea; however, for scenes on the open ocean, it had to be towed miles away from land, which was extremely time- and resource-consuming.

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