After this quick sighting, the tour promptly started with a look at the Flying Dutchman deck. The Flying Dutchman (click image below for a larger version) is a ship featured in the 2nd film and its captain is none other than Davey Jones (Bill Nighy). According to Knoll, "He's got a whole octopus for a face (and) a crab claw hand." Davey Jones also walks on a "crab leg," which is like a peg leg. The writers borrowed from popular Pirate mythology to craft their story and it was eluded that the crew all resemble each other.
Knoll elaborated on many details about Jones and his crew. "The design is really cool," said Knoll. "Him and his whole crew are collection of sea life. They are very complicated. It's actually like building one of the characters is like eight characters because they are a conglomeration of things. One character's got an eel growing through him… The longer you serve on the Dutchman, the more you sort of become of the sea. Someone who has recently joined the crews looks human, but someone who has served on the crew for 200 years doesn't really have a face anymore. It's a gradual placement of reprocess."
The deck of the ship was undergoing water tests, in which water cannons on the side of the set sprayed water on the main deck of the ship. The ship was very rickety-looking, with many barnacles growing on all sides of it. It was a dark brown color and the cannons looked rusted and moldy. The set sits on a gimble, which is able to make the ship tilt as if it is on the ocean. The scene that was shooting featured the aforementioned Nighy, Skarsgård, and Orlando Bloom. The only details given was that the ship has been undersea for one hundred years and resurfaces to collect the souls of pirates that died at sea.
Source: Comingsoon.net
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