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Ran across this gem doing some research on the keys and diving. This is episode 28 from the first season in1958...has a little bit of everything. The cave shots might be Silver Springs?? Anyone id that scooter?
Anyway: Enjoy and happy holidays.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/87650/sea-...nes#s-p1-so-i0
It was watching Sea Hunt when I was a little kid that got me hooked on diving. Mike Nelson was THE MAN!Quote:
Originally Posted by wingman
I have the entire series on DVD and watching them now they do look a bit silly but back then it was "high adventure" to me. It doesn't matter though because they're still fun to watch and enjoy 40+ years later. Just about every (but not all) of the underwater scenes were shot at Silver Springs but on the program they "Traveled the world". I like watching them tossing those doubles around like they were as light as balsa wood but that's because that's what they were, carved and painted balsa wood.
Anyhow, Sea Hunt = good stuff!
These made a diver of me too.
I remember the old doubles, weren't they twin 30s? The set that he throws into the Jeep is definitely real.
I've never been to silver springs in the past 30 years and don't know whether that's where the pictures were taken or not. To me it looked like soem shots could have been Troy Springs. One other looks like you are looking out from the opening at the Ginnie Ballroom. That water is shallow there if you watch him hit the surface at the end of the shot. One other looks like it has a stairway or wall/sitting bench running around the base of it, similar to Juniper Springs or some other commercial place.
My favorite is the scooter shot where he comes towad you then passes over you in the shot. If you continue to look in back of him as he passes over you can see a support diver or just someone else in the background, close to the surface. It's only there for split second.
Surprising that there was no mask ripping or hose cutting in this episode.
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Originally Posted by pwl4476
That would be a good trivia question. "How many total times was a hose cut in Sea Hunt?" Back then it sure was dramatic with all those bubbles!
Sea Hunt used a lot of stock footage shot in a tank at Marine land, but then graduated to real OW locations. They shot a great deal of footage at Silver Springs and also shot on location at Tarpon Springs as well as Catalina Island and the Bahamas.
Technically, Silver Springs footage shows up in over 100 of the 155 Sea Hunt episodes, but it is kind of like the original Battlestar Galactica series where stock footage was used in multiple episodes.
That said, it was one of my major motivators to get into diving.
But after 25 years of diving I have yet to have someone cut a hose.
All the bubbles look dramatic, but it is always the exhaust hose, so it is no big deal. In some episodes, you can see the soon to be cut hose with pin hole leaks where it connects to the can, so they were often cutting hoses that were going to be replaced anyway.
Bah... scooter running 4-9 knots...
Mike Nelson used a 25 knot nuclear powered scooter with a 150-year run time.........everyone knows that!Quote:
Originally Posted by netmage
And that was with the blade pitch only set on one!
I got a "video not available" message. I guess Bill caused the server to get overloaded :-)
I could help you with that! :smt079Quote:
Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster
:smt081
Anyone see the recent video about trying to cut a modern hose :-)
This video is why I don't dive below 120ft with buddies... ;)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/87675/sea-...eep#s-p6-so-i0
Outstanding Post Tegg!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegg
Some more episodes from Season 1 are here:
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=mtCHYknqPxw
I wish I could say the same. Seahunt was probably one of the reasons I was 45 before I started diving. Now I have to fit that extra 25 years or so in the time left. My grandmother and I watch that series glued to the set. They do look funky now, but they didn't at the time. Also coming from a land locked area of the country didn't help either.Quote:
Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster
Dale
Mike really walks efficiently in the sand while wearing his fins and his doubles.
I finally got to see the first video. I used to work in a diveshop that had a wetsuit Lloyd Bridges wore in the series. It was a size small. They always had him standing on a stool, when photographed with another man, so he wouldn't loose that larger-than-life image :-D
You got my curiosity piqued. I googled and several sites said he was 6'.
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Originally Posted by FW
More like 5'4". His suit was waay too small for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squirrel Girl
It was the main reason he wore double 38s.
Next time you are in DC, go to American Watersports of VA, and ask to see the suit. Tell Harrison hello for me. It was his father's diveshop when I taught there.
Those episodes are pretty fun. I love listening to "The Big Broadcast" on Sunday night radio. Shows from the 50s +/-. Gunsmoke is my fav.Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
So the old Sea Hunts are great. Hokey, now of course, and some crazy stuff in there, like getting narked causes you to become homicidal.... :roll:
Here's an episode where Lloyd rescues trapped miners:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/87689/sea-...ine#s-p6-so-i0
You mean that it doesn't? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Squirrel Girl
Playing a slightly different character, Lloyd appears as Izzy Mandelbaum in a few episodes of Seinfeld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFSOnumgZA
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Originally Posted by FW
5'4"?
I'm 5'5" and I don't think I could play football and baseball at the University of California, as he did. 5"4" is short! How could he be Mickey Rooney's height and appear even average height in all his television and movie roles, much less even get these roles.
I suspect he was indeed 6' as his sons appear to be and as he is listed at all the web sites I found with references to his height.
And the music, how about that? da Da DAAAA!!!!
A few years ago, on a Connie LoRe cave trip my buddy and I brought several Sea Hunt DVD's in case the group wanted to watch at night after dinner. (I usually also brought a portable DVD player to hook up to the TV) Others brought DVDs as well.
Well, hands down every night Sea Hunt was the program of choice. Connie didn't join us for the chuckle fest. (OMG, we have to get to him, that's crush depth!!)
One morning, one of our group was having an issue with his gear prior to loading up for the morning dive. I will never forget the snickers when he told Connie (with the straightest face you could imagine) he would have to stay back that morning as his "diving lung" was having issues. Connie looked at him like he was from Mars and replied "your what???" :clapper
Definite awesome memory!
Lloyd Bridges sorta looks like Bill "Bird" Oestreich doesn't he?
Carl, you're either homicidal by nature or you're not!Quote:
Originally Posted by CGriffing
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or provoked or not! :smt079
OK, maybe he was 5'5", but he got the roles by standing on stools, etc. in every shot he was with another man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puttzer
I have never seen a reference to Lloyd Bridge's height as anything less than 6'. Also I have seen him in movie shots where he did not appear to be shorter than actors taller than 5'9" or so with no camera angles etc to hide short stature.
On the other hand, most sites list Kevin Costner as being 6'1" tall but I have seen several of his costumes and stood near the man and I am pretty sure I am taller than he is at 5'9" tall. In looking at many of his movies he is paired with shorter actors / actresses and/or is IMHO carefully shot to hide the short stature and or platform shoes.
So (gasp) I am not sure what I can believe on the internet and Mike Nelson was probably a lot shorter than he appeared on TV.
In the Rocky movies, Stallone always stood on a box for close-ups with other actors.
So these actors are very much like cave divers on the CDF because we all seem to stand on our own soap boxes when we post :yawinkle:Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
This is interesting. I have ALL the Sea Hunt episodes.Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
Lots and lots and lots of full shots of him with other people including ladies and groups. And haven't seen a stool yet.
I have a suggestion, call American Water Sports of Virginia (703) 534-3636. Ask for Harrison Starn. Then ask him to measure Lloyd Bridges wetsuit :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Puttzer
His father was a Sea Hunt fan, and bought the wetsuit for the dive shop. He also knew a bunch of inside stories from the production of the series. Tell Harrison that Forrest Wilson said hello.
Have you ever been in a tilt house? Usually tourist traps located around real tourist destinations. (yes, I was at one when I was 9yo) Anyway, it shows a man and woman standing side by side, one view she's taller, the other view he's taller. Their feet are in the same position. It's all the angle of what is around those subjects that throws off your perception. Tilt houses have been around for years and years....so it's not out of the question that the method hasn't been used in film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puttzer
According to this web page, he is 6' tall (no idea how accurate it is).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000978/bio
Since the guy bought a wetsuit, it has to be Lloyd Bridge's wetsuit? There's no possibility that someone ripped him off? Maybe the suit is Lloyd Brudge's wetsuit :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FW
I'm not saying it's not true, I'm saying the argument is weak unless Harrison Starn is Lloyd's brother or something.
Someone please call him though. Now I am intrigued.
Chris
Reminds me of the John Voit car George Castanza bought on Seinfeld. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by cmalinowski
That's the same site that lists Kevin Costner as 6'1" tall - which conflicts with my knowledge of the man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason B.
Which is not to say Bridges is short, just that the internet is not exaclty 100% reliable.
Looks like we are going to have to exhume the body and measure the remains to definitively settle this one.
And the Braves Media Guide listed Rafael Belliard as 5'8". :rollguy
You have more knowledge than anyone I have ever met.Quote:
Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster
Its' expensive knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason B.
I like most of Costner's movies and his parents are nice folks as they have a house near where I used to live for 15 years, but he came to town with plans to build a really big hotel and casino, stuck the local home owners in Lead and Deadwood with a 3 million dollar bill for a sewer pipe to nowhere, then backed out on the deal. His brother Dan operates a smaller casino nearby (Midnight Star in Deadwood) and Kevin would blow into town a few times a year in his Gulfstream 3 now and then go around with a fairly sizable entourage. (you can fit a lot of people in a G3.) The first time he flew in, the plane sank about 6 inches into the asphalt parking ramp at Clyde Ice Field (a pretty small airport with no air carrier service), so there is now a concrete section for it to park on. I am not 100% sure and no one is talking, but I suspect the county tax payers paid for that little addition.
In my opinon, he is less nice in person than in the movies and despite the personal bias and the large entourage that prevents standing back to back with him, I am pretty sure is more like 5'6" than 6'0.
Plus he has several movie costumes hanging in Diamond Lil's, and they either shrunk a lot at the cleaners or he is really short.
Of course, maybe he just looks short standing in the ruts his Gulfstream III made.
I met Jeff Bridges in Dallas when he was either filming Texasville or just finishing filming it in mid to late 1990. I'm 6'1". He was about the same height. I know that there can be some differences between generations, but typically the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
Just to play devil's advocate...Quote:
Originally Posted by pwl4476
Absent genetic testing the mother is the only person who could truly know there were not more potential trees to fall from... :D
Neoprene, especially older suits, shrink. A lot.
I've seen a suit that fit someone 6' and about 225lbs, that after a few years was tight on someone 5'8" and about 150lbs.
Resurrecting an old thread.
I've been watching some old westerns that I got on DVD, cheap. Whoa! That's Lloyd Bridges in Abilene Town. I remembered the big debate on his height. So I tried to compare him to the star of the show, Randolph Scott. I guessed he was about 4-5" shorter than Scott. Then I googled Scott's height which turns out to be 6'4". So that puts Lloyd right there at about 6'.
That's amazing! Now I know what happened to my Typhoon Ranger, and my Dive Concepts, and my wetsuits, and my pants, and my shirts...Quote:
Originally Posted by Webmaster
Thank God! I was worried that I was getting fat!
BTW,
People say that I am a LOT taller on the radio!
It's not just the actual wet suits that get smaller over time but the sizes as well. I started scuba diving in 1985 and wore a size medium Harvey's High Tide (high waist beaver tail wet suit).
I have no idea why companies decided to make "smaller" medium sized wet suits but I have noticed that I now I have to get an XL to get the same fit.