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The Virgin Islands used to be the place to forget about the factory. The sand is white, the weather right, the pleasures plentiful-and a Pan Am tourist book even advises women visi tors to leave their girdles at home. Now industry is coming to the Virgins, and the results...
The special appeal of Sea Hunt lies in its power to float its fans right through their TV screens into the unearthly realm where its churning action chiefly occurs. Hungarian-born, Hollywood-based Producer Tors has roved from the Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny...
But this was no imaginary corner of outer space. For a typical underwater interlude in the shooting of Sea Hunt, one of the world's most widely syndicated TV dramas, Tors & Co. were in the depths of a huge kelp bed off Santa Catalina Island. The film they were...
Photogenic Scuttling. Roughly half of each 30-minute installment of Sea Hunt happens underwater. Skindiving Hero Mike Nelson (Bridges) has battled the odds in the form of sharks, octopuses, moray eels, manta rays, alligators, giant sea turtles, Aqua-Lunged badmen-and "rapture of the deep" (nitrogen narcosis). The whole production...
But much of the show is shot in the huge tanks of the world's biggest aquarium. California's Marineland of the Pacific at Palos Verdes. Even in the tanks, filming Sea Hunt is risky. Bubbles, Marineland's 1,800-lb. pilot whale cow, once pinned astonished...