a question about sea hunt tv show

[reble]

Sea hunt is one of my favorite rerun tv shows. Why back then did woman always ware those white shower caps when diving?


Steve

 

[captain]

It wasn't just while diving. They were quite commonly used when swimming. Actually the weren't shower caps, they were swimming caps.

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[spectrum]

It was the style of the day and I suppose it made it easier for the stunt doubles to pass for the stars.

You would see the same thing in Flipper and the swimsuits were almost in the lavender/purple range. You can actually spot where they mixed and match stock diver footage to assemble storylines.

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Pete

 

[simonbeans]

 

[drbill]

Wow... I had forgotten about swim caps. Used in pools, the ocean, showers, etc. Something I never even thought about going away.

Zale Parry from Sea Hunt still comes out to Casino Point in the spring to dive here but she doesn't wear a swim cap.

 

[herman]

Just for the record, the B&W photo above was taken May 2011...good friends of mine.

 

[boulderjohn]

I was never a woman wearing such a cap at the time, so I may be wrong, but I believe it had a lot to do with the kind of hair styles popular at the time. Today a woman with wet hair can pretty much brish it out and be done with it. A hair style with all sorts of carefully arranged curls was another matter.

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BTW, here is some trivia about the costuming of the shows. Back then wet suits were pretty much uniformly black. That presented two problems for the show.

1. Two guys wrestling underwater in identical wet suits confuses the audience as to who is doing what to whom.

2. Good guys don't wear black.

So Mike Nelson and all the other good guys wore wet suits that had been covered with a silvery paint. They had to repaint them every few shows.

 

[simonbeans]

Just for the record, the B&W photo above was taken May 2011...good friends of mine.

Actually that was the 2008 Silver Springs show we did for the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Sea Hunt TV show (1958-1961). We did a second show in 2011. The swim cap worn by the lady farthest from the camera was a bit controversial. However, one of the requirements to be in the cast of the show was to have dive gear/apparel that was documented to be seen in any episode of the TV show. To use a piece of gear not as easily recognized as Sea Hunt, you had to prove its existence by noting its appearance in a particular episode. Two of the "authorities" that were used in determination was Sea Hunt Jerry from Minnesota and Alec Perice from Toronto, owner of Scuba 2000 and one of the main speakers at the annual Legends of Diving, held each year at Portage Quarry, OH, the 2nd weekend of August. Many of the 2008 and 2011 cast and crew of the Silver Springs Sea Hunt recreations attend the Portage Quarry event.

 

[Malpaso]

1. Two guys wrestling underwater in identical wet suits confuses the audience as to who is doing what to whom.

it may have been coincidence, but I remember the bad guys usually had doubles, and the good guys singles. I'm remembering that from the originals, not reruns, and I was pretty young, but I always rooted for the guys with singles because of that. It would be interesting to go back and watch to see if that was the case.

 

[simonbeans]

Nope, got it backward. Good guys, silver suits and sometimes doubles, triples, and singles. Mike Nelson usually wore double 38s.