When asked how they made being underwater feel uncomfortable Erik Aadahl stated: "That's an interesting question, because it's very subjective. To me, the power of sound is that it can play with emotions in very subconscious and subliminal ways. In terms of underwater, we had many different flavors for what that underwater sound was. In that scene with Jonas going above and below the water, it's really about that frequency shift. You go into a deep rumble under the water, but it's not loud. It's quiet. But sometimes the scariest sounds are the quiet ones. We learned this from A Quiet Place recently and the same applies to The Meg for sure." Ethan Van der Ryn stated: "Whenever you go quiet, people get uneasy. It's a cool shift because when you are above the water you see the ripples of the ocean all over the place. When working in 7.1 or the Dolby Atmos mix, you can take these little rolling waves and pan them from center to left or from the right front wall to the back speakers. You have all of this motion and it's calming and peaceful. But as soon as you go under, all of that goes away and you don't hear anything. It gets really quiet and that makes people uneasy. There's this constant low-end tone and it sells pressure and it sells fear. It is very different from above the water." Aadahl elaborated: "Turteltaub described this feeling of pressure, so it's something that's almost below the threshold of hearing. It's something you feel; this pressure pushing against you, and that's something we can do with the subwoofer. In Atmos, all of the speakers around the theater are extended-frequency range so we can put those super-low frequencies into every speaker (including the overheads) and it translates in a way that it doesn't in 7.1. In Atmos, you feel that pressure that Turteltaub talked a lot about."

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