Hunters of the Deep (1954)
Not Rated | 1h 4min | Documentary | 9 May 1955 (Sweden)
Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish and mammals as well as ocean flora and rock formation.
Director: Ben Chapman
Writers: Allan Dowling, Tom Gries
Star: Dan O'Herlihy
Not Rated | 1h 4min | Documentary | 9 May 1955 (Sweden)
Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish and mammals as well as ocean flora and rock formation.
Director: Ben Chapman
Writers: Allan Dowling, Tom Gries
Star: Dan O'Herlihy
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00:10:56And here is a specimen of no particular interest to anybody.
00:11:07It can, however, have a certain nuisance value, as it has to birth.
00:11:11The golden garibaldi, small in size but possessing a mighty temper,
00:11:15is furious about that sea star crawling on his nest of eggs.
00:11:29Well, there's only one thing to do with this intruder, given the old Bowery rush.
00:11:36On this trip, a new species of fish was collected,
00:11:39one that had never before been seen in Pacific waters,
00:11:42apparently a close relative of the Atlantic razorfish.
00:11:48After he was speared, he was found to be carrying a small stone in his mouth,
00:11:52which turned out to be the door of his house.
00:11:55For this fish builds a nest of stones on the sea's bottom
00:11:58and leaves one stone loose to close it as a door behind him.
00:12:03Deep into the eel grass, which flows over the ocean's floor like a woman's hair,
00:12:07dives one of the swimmers
00:12:12and emerges to find that he has company.
00:12:15A sea lion, graceful and friendly, invites him to a game of tag.
00:12:33Winnie here is still having problems,
00:12:36but his bulldog tenacity is sure to win in the end.
00:12:45One of the divers is photographing the effects of wave action on the bottom,
00:12:49when suddenly he sees an eared grebe,
00:12:52a fussy character feeding on small bottom life, and in a big hurry too.
00:14:03Far below the surface, the second group of scientists
00:14:07works through a dimly lit world of ghostly gray and blue.
00:14:12About 25 miles off San Diego harbor,
00:14:15they come to the edge of a submarine canyon only recently discovered.
00:14:19Gases from the Earth's inside send a constant stream of bubbles upward.
00:14:25Wearing suits of rubber and wool against the cold,
00:14:28these men, who are geologists,
00:14:31cautiously explore the edges of the vast gulf that yawns beneath them.
00:14:36Imperfections of photography may be excused,
00:14:39as these pictures, taken for the first time at a depth of nearly 100 feet
00:14:43and with only natural light, are unique.
00:14:47Many mysteries of the sea remain unsolved.
00:14:50Neither the extent nor the depth of this canyon has yet been determined.
00:14:58This is a documentary film
00:15:01based on a true story
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00:16:07But what are the other hunters doing?
00:16:10Here's one with a spear gun in his hand,
00:16:13moving slowly and cautiously, hoping for excitement.
00:16:17Far down here in the deeps, life is in constant danger.
00:16:20Savage creatures, large and small, may appear at any moment.
00:16:31And here the danger comes.
00:16:34The shark, the tiger of this undersea jungle.
00:16:44The shark approaches.
00:16:47The diver can only shoot and hope for the best.
00:16:53Got him!
00:17:00But who has whom?
00:17:03The shark whips about violently, trying to fight its way loose.
00:17:06The diver struggles desperately with the line,
00:17:09but the shark has too much for him.
00:17:17He has lost his mouthpiece.
00:17:20In the wild struggle, the line is wrapped around the diver's fin and ankle,
00:17:23and he is dragged through the underwater grove.
00:17:33The line breaks.
00:17:36The rescuing diver arrives in time and transfers his mouthpiece to his companion,
00:17:39sharing the life-giving air.
00:17:47The shark is ready.
00:18:05The danger is not over yet.
00:18:08The wounded, angry shark is still in the neighborhood,
00:18:11and the divers must surface slowly to avoid bends.
00:18:17At last, at last, they're safe.
00:18:23Well, look who's here.
00:18:26It's Winnie again, and that pest of a starfish.
00:18:29This time we'll make a real job of it once and for all.
00:18:37Scattered along the coastal waters are the last survivors of a mammal group
00:18:40that once ranged all the sea.
00:18:43There are only some 2,000 left in the world.
00:18:46They're tremendous.
00:18:49A full-grown male weighs 3,000 pounds,
00:18:52but they're slow and almost defenseless against their two natural enemies,
00:18:55the slashing killer whales,
00:18:58wanton murderers of the ocean,
00:19:01and men who shot them for food.
00:19:04Now sea elephants are protected from hunters,
00:19:07and the herd grows slowly.
00:19:16Here in the undersea surge around Guadalupe Island
00:19:19off the coast of lower California,
00:19:22mothers gamble ponderously with their young.
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00:20:22Eventually a young male sees the camera
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00:20:28for these are friendly, fun-loving animals
00:20:31and only dangerous from being too friendly.
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00:21:13One might well say of this fellow
00:21:16that he doesn't know his own strength,
00:21:19and if our camera and our cameraman had not been
00:21:22tightly wedged among protecting rocks,
00:21:25this might have been the end of our story.
00:21:28The big beast finally backs off,
00:21:31baffled by this strange new animal
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00:21:53This curious creature, created without a tail,
00:21:56looks no bigger than a flounder,
00:21:59but appearances are deceptive,
00:22:02a giant jellyfish, which comes in sizes up to 1,000 pounds,
00:22:05and which is the only creature in the sea
00:22:08that can eat the giant jellyfish with impunity.
00:22:12The jellyfish is one of the most elemental creatures in the world.
00:22:15It drops its eggs on the ocean floor,
00:22:18and the eggs form coral polyps,
00:22:21which in turn join together in whole coral colonies.
00:22:24Then when their time for reproduction comes,
00:22:27their eggs float free and become jellyfish,
00:22:30a particle known as parthenogenesis.
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00:23:22Mushroom-shaped like an atomic cloud,
00:23:25this monster is 35 feet long.
00:23:28Almost any part of it can deliver a sting,
00:23:31but only certain areas are deadly.
00:23:34It moves rhythmically with a bellows-like motion,
00:23:37a thing of beauty, but not exactly a joy forever.
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00:24:28In the clear waters around the island of Santa Catalina,
00:24:31these young scientists swim through the age-old
00:24:34kelp forests with their fern-like foliage,
00:24:37and their open glades full of coral formations of remarkable beauty.
00:24:40In the world of the sea, it's often difficult
00:24:43to distinguish between animal and vegetable life.
00:24:46Kelp and seaweeds are vegetable,
00:24:49but most of the forms that you see here are anthozoas,
00:24:52which is Greek for flower animals.
00:24:55They're actually colonies of tiny creatures,
00:24:58some of whom, like the coral, form rigid skeletons
00:25:02Others, like the sea anemone, have no skeletons at all,
00:25:05are soft as their namesakes above,
00:25:08and sway about ceaselessly under the tides.
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00:25:23Not everything in the sea is beautiful.
00:25:26This ugly customer is known as a pigfish, for obvious reasons,
00:25:30while this handsome fellow is considerably more elegant,
00:25:33and knows it.
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00:25:39The first diver was equipped by nature alone
00:25:43with a pair of healthy lungs and strong legs.
00:25:46These men have added little to that equipment.
00:25:49A face mask for clear vision,
00:25:52a pair of webbed fins for speed and distance,
00:25:55and a look box to see what they can see.
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00:26:37And here's the game, a fat grouper,
00:26:40one of the tastiest fish in the ocean.
00:26:43And after all, scientists have to eat.
00:26:46And so, the chase begins.
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00:27:34Here is a group who have lost their leader
00:27:37and who think the camera may be another fish.
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00:27:44And here is a spotted skate
00:27:47as it makes its way along the rocky ocean bottom.
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00:28:14Our friend here is Diogenes, a hermit crab.
00:28:17Hiding his tender tail in a borrowed shell,
00:28:20he hoists up his house and decides to move to a less crowded neighborhood.
00:28:23He wants to be alone.
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00:28:32In the meantime, Philbert the flounder is too lazy to move,
00:28:35but doesn't want to miss anything.
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00:29:20Most dwellers in the sea can move about quite freely,
00:29:23but these sea worms have taken long leases on their apartments.
00:29:26Their home is a large brain coral,
00:29:29and visitors are not welcome.
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00:29:38A purple rock oyster catches the attention of one of the divers.
00:29:41They're sometimes called scallops,
00:29:44and are firmly attached to convenient rocks or coral formations.
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00:29:50This one looks difficult to budge,
00:29:53for the sharp abalone knife of the hunter quickly detaches the upper half.
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00:30:24What's that? Something for the dinner part?
00:30:27I guess it's about time to begin thinking about the evening meals.
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00:30:36Drawn up in a row like a regiment of dragoons,
00:30:39these lobsters wave their feelers in search of passing food.
00:30:42With their tails protected by the ledge of rock,
00:30:45it's wiser to leave them alone and look for stragglers.
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00:31:57A giant stingray glides to the bottom and attempts to bury itself in the sand.
00:32:00All rays burrow in the sand for camouflage,
00:32:03and those two dark spots which look like eyes
00:32:06are actually spiracles for breathing.
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00:32:18This one is trying to hide from the hunter, but without success.
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00:32:42The ray is not badly wounded.
00:32:45Holding it by the tail and one nostril,
00:32:48the diver throws it back into the water.
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00:33:12Unlike the evil monster of popular legend,
00:33:15the octopus is really a shy creature.
00:33:18It's far more scared of a man than a man should be of it.
00:33:21And yet, coming face to face with one of these creatures,
00:33:24fully grown and in its own element,
00:33:27makes one just a little bit nervous.
00:33:30Those eight arms are going to reach out for us.
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00:34:03This one scoots through a tunnel in the rocks
00:34:06and leaves the man groping from the other side.
00:34:09Has he caught it? Let's wait and see.
00:34:12He seems to have found something.
00:34:15What is it?
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00:34:24Well, bless my soul, it's little Audrey.
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00:34:39Harold is close at hand. A hammerhead shark on the prowl.
00:34:42Big and very fast,
00:34:45these are among the most dangerous creatures in the sea.
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00:34:51In the dim depths, a whole school of hammerheads
00:34:54swims on lazy patrol.
00:34:57The shark in all its forms is literally a prehistoric monster
00:35:00on which evolution ceased to work eons of time ago.
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00:35:15One of the largest types of fish in the sea
00:35:18is the basking shark.
00:35:21They swim very slowly, keeping their large mouths open
00:35:24as a trap for the plankton they feed upon.
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00:35:33Into these waters off Mexico,
00:35:36murky with microscopic sea life,
00:35:39swim other monsters of the ocean in search of food.
00:35:42Here's a giant manta ray.
00:35:45His kind grows to weigh 3,000 pounds.
00:35:48Here, he's called devil fish by the fisherman
00:35:51whose valuable nets he tears in his blind rush.
00:35:54Great schools of manta ray come every year to these Mexican waters
00:35:57who feed and spawn a new crop of youngsters
00:36:00who will measure four feet across at birth.
00:36:03Here, hundreds wing by in ghostly flight
00:36:06like bats in a dim cave
00:36:09or witches riding on the brocken.
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00:36:39Up above, the sun is still bright
00:36:42and we follow the manta ray who are plagued with irritating worms
00:36:45as they leap high into the air and come down flat with a great splash
00:36:48in an effort to shake off these parasites.
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00:36:54Let's go now to clearer waters,
00:36:57back to the neighborhood of Santa Catalina Island.
00:37:00After a storm has passed above
00:37:03and the sun has returned to penetrate the heaving surface,
00:37:06the sea reveals its greatest beauty.
00:37:09Like a Kansas wheat field bending before the wind
00:37:12or flocks of swallows swooping uncertainly in the evening sky,
00:37:15these various forms of animal and vegetable life,
00:37:18some of the mantasaur's flower animals,
00:37:21stage a superb ballet.
00:37:24Sometimes languorous, sometimes swift and dazzling,
00:37:27they dance to an unheard inner music
00:37:30which we, more fortunate than they, can create through human art.
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00:40:09Let's go now to another part of the world,
00:40:12where the water is even clearer,
00:40:15the Bahama Islands in the Atlantic.
00:40:18Here too, man is an intruder,
00:40:20a being from a mysterious upper world
00:40:22where fish cannot go and live.
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00:40:28Having dropped his calling cards, the man prepares to follow.
00:40:31But wait, here may be danger.
00:40:34Sharks do not usually attack a man,
00:40:37so we'll see what this fellow's intentions are.
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00:40:52Oh well, I guess that if I don't bother him,
00:40:55he won't bother me. So, let's go.
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00:41:22This is a moray eel.
00:41:25Though not very big, it's one of the most vicious
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00:41:31The moray has jaws strong enough to snap a man's wrist.
00:41:34Unaware of the presence of its mortal enemy, the shark,
00:41:37wisely decides to head for shelter.
00:41:40His pursuer, nearsighted as all sharks are,
00:41:43has a keen sense of smell and moves in a series of lazy zigzags
00:41:46until he's close enough to see his quarry.
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00:41:55And that is the end of the moray eel.
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00:42:10Now we'll see if one of our human hunters can be as successful.
00:42:13It may take a little time,
00:42:16but moray eels are not uncommon in these waters.
00:42:19And with luck, we'll pick one up fairly soon.
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00:42:31There's one now, and a big one.
00:42:34If Brother Shark will only stay out of the game, we'll have a try at this one.
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00:42:43Oh!
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00:42:52Now we'll get after this fellow.
00:42:55This is really a kill for safety.
00:42:58The moray eel is lightning quick and is one of the few
00:43:01undersea creatures that will attack without provocation or warning.
00:43:04And his hide is tough enough to stop a spear unless he's hit squarely.
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00:43:40With danger out of the way, it's time to look for more pleasant subjects.
00:43:43The sea turtle, for example, excellent for soup.
00:43:46And the parrotfish, as brightly coloured as his namesake in the air
00:43:49and with just a sharper beak.
00:43:52♪
00:43:55These grey reef fish live among the corals
00:43:58with a graceful jackfish.
00:44:01This is a filefish,
00:44:04not beautiful, but interesting.
00:44:07His mouth is too small for the tiniest fish hook
00:44:10and his skin is like sandpaper.
00:44:13♪
00:44:16The tiny golden fish
00:44:19against the fan coral are called wrasse.
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00:45:10This young French angelfish
00:45:13will lose his pretty stripes when he reaches adulthood.
00:45:16♪
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00:45:22Luckily, no such unfortunate change
00:45:25happens to his beautiful cousin, the queen angelfish,
00:45:28one of the most colorful in the Atlantic,
00:45:31and she loves to be photographed.
00:45:34♪
00:45:37These are called butterflyfish,
00:45:40presumably because each one looks like one wing of a butterfly.
00:45:43And this is a pipefish,
00:45:46no doubt about the reason for that name.
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00:45:55You see that?
00:45:58A rockfish covered by protective camouflage.
00:46:01♪
00:46:04And this odd-looking creature is a roosterfish.
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00:46:22The sea also has its deserts,
00:46:25and some odd characters inhabit them.
00:46:28Like the familiar gopher of our prairies,
00:46:31the gobyfish digs its home in the sand.
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00:47:01Junior pops up to see what's going...
00:47:04and just at the right moment, too.
00:47:07What in the world is this?
00:47:10This has never happened before.
00:47:13The conch moves slowly, majestically,
00:47:16like a cathedral that has taken it into its head
00:47:19to move to a new location.
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00:47:25Well, we can't spend all our time watching this thing go by.
00:47:28We have work to do.
00:47:31Here's a small fish caught in the tentacles of a sea anemone
00:47:34and struggling to get free.
00:47:37The eel, sizing up the situation,
00:47:40decides that it's worthwhile to try to steal the meal.
00:47:43But he doesn't want to get stung,
00:47:46any more than you do.
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00:48:40Give you some idea of how time is passing.
00:48:43Just look where the conch is now.
00:48:46The goby fish has had enough of it by this time.
00:48:49Wants to get back to his job.
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00:48:59It's heartening to know that while there are enemies in the sea,
00:49:02against which one must be constantly on guard,
00:49:05it's also possible to find friends.
00:49:08While the never-to-be-trusted shark is roving around in the neighborhood,
00:49:11one of our divers is approached by a pair of groupers,
00:49:14who soon become as devoted to him as if they were hound dogs.
00:49:18One of them is a striped grouper,
00:49:21a species of sea bass, weighing about 60 pounds.
00:49:24And 60 pounds of devotion is not to be rejected lightly.
00:49:31This is our striped friend, Sapphire,
00:49:34and in this corner wearing dark pants is Uncle Remus,
00:49:37weighing in at about 80 pounds.
00:49:40Actually he's a yellow fin grouper,
00:49:43who can change his spots to black or brown or white according to his mood.
00:49:46It's amazing but true that each time the divers went back to this location,
00:49:50over a period of two years,
00:49:53the same two fish found them and resumed their dog-like devotion.
00:50:23This is a video of a striped grouper,
00:50:26a species of sea bass,
00:50:29weighing in at about 80 pounds.
00:50:32It's amazing but true that each time the divers went back to this location,
00:50:35over a period of two years,
00:50:38the same two fish found them and resumed their dog-like devotion.
00:50:41It's amazing but true that each time the divers went back to this location,
00:50:44over a period of two years,
00:50:47the same two fish found them and resumed their dog-like devotion.
00:50:50It's amazing but true that each time the divers went back to this location,
00:50:53over a period of two years,
00:50:56the same two fish found them and resumed their dog-like devotion.
00:50:59It's amazing but true that each time the divers went back to this location,
00:51:02over a period of two years,
00:51:05the same two fish found them and resumed their dog-like devotion.
00:51:08On the other hand, it would not be possible to make friends with this fellow,
00:51:11a steel-skinned barracuda, ready to attack anything that moves.
00:51:14Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:17Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:20Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:23Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:26Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:29Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:32Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:35Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:38Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:41Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:44Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:47Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:50Fast as lightning, this fish spells danger wherever it appears.
00:51:53Much smaller than the barracuda, but equally fast, is the needlefish.
00:51:56The eye has to be quick to follow him.
00:52:05One of the cleverest creatures in the sea is the squid.
00:52:14The squid is a macaw.
00:52:30He has developed his own system of jet propulsion,
00:52:33which works equally well in reverse.
00:52:36Also, the suction created by it serves to draw in his prey.
00:52:44Now we're going to watch a new sport, at least I never heard of it before.
00:53:12It's fishing, not for the sake of a fisherman, but for the sake of his pet fish.
00:53:32It's no wonder that these two characters couldn't be gotten rid of.
00:53:42What's this? Oh, a sand shark, just the right size for a playful little wrestling match.
00:53:58With no holes barred.
00:54:12It's a sand shark!
00:54:15It's a sand shark!
00:54:18It's a sand shark!
00:54:21It's a sand shark!
00:54:24It's a sand shark!
00:54:27It's a sand shark!
00:54:30It's a sand shark!
00:54:33It's a sand shark!
00:54:36It's a sand shark!
00:54:39It's a sand shark!
00:54:42It's a sand shark!
00:54:45It's a sand shark!
00:54:48It's a sand shark!
00:54:51It's a sand shark!
00:54:54It's a sand shark!
00:54:57It's a sand shark!
00:55:00It's a sand shark!
00:55:03It's a sand shark!
00:55:06It's a sand shark!
00:55:09It's a sand shark!
00:55:12It's a sand shark!
00:55:15It's a sand shark!
00:55:18It's a sand shark!
00:55:21It's a sand shark!
00:55:24It's a sand shark!
00:55:27It's a sand shark!
00:55:30It's a sand shark!
00:55:33It's a sand shark!
00:55:36It's a sand shark!
00:55:39It's a sand shark!
00:55:42It's a sand shark!
00:56:12This time his eyes were bigger than his stomach, or should we say, his throat.
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00:59:38Probably about a female stingray lying comfortably in the sand below.
00:59:54Slowly the vanquished ray floats to the bottom as the men move in for a closer look.
00:59:59Meanwhile, the victor swims off to his lady, escorted by his equerry, the jackfish.
01:00:11The beaten ray is sorely wounded, but the ocean jungle has no mercy for the weak and
01:00:15injured.
01:00:17So the predatory sharks move in, followed by other scavengers of the deep, and with
01:00:25the savagery characteristic of all sea life, they eat the stingray, alive.
01:00:55The long ocean day is coming to an end, and it's time for us to say our goodbyes.
01:01:21Sapphire and Uncle Remus are sure going to miss us, and somehow, we're going to miss
01:01:26them.
01:01:27A little.
01:01:28But don't worry, we'll be back next year, and I'll bet you our two faithful friends
01:01:33are going to be right there waiting for us.
01:01:36So long, Sapphire.
01:01:38Take care of yourself.
01:02:38There's a long moment under the sea, between the departure of day and the arrival of night.
01:02:55Some of the creatures seek the protection of coral reefs, others hide in the heavy
01:02:59seaweed or burrow in the sand.
01:03:04For sleep they must, and do, rot in the cradle of the deep.