As many of you know, I help out with the Underwater Videographer Podcast. We are planning a special Sea Hunt 50th Anniversary Special in December.
Many of you, like me, developed the interest in diving from watching Sea Hunt. As part of the Special, I wanted to give any of you the opportunity to share any memories of Sea Hunt or Lloyd Bridges. Also, you may want to share how the Show influenced you into diving. I plan to read the best ones on the Podcast intro.
Thank you for your help.
Hello Marshallkarp,
Like you and others who have posted here, I was very much influenced by Sea Hunt or as my father called it, "Sea Lung" and another show called, "Danger is My Business." I remember walking to the movie theater and found an old set of spark plug wires that allowed me to "sit underwater" while the movie was playing. If I had only known about Quaker Oats Tanks! When other kids wanted to be firemen and policemen, I wanted to be a diver. Unfortunately, growing up in a small town in Louisiana I did not have much of a chance until I joined the military. In the early 70ies as luck would have it I got stationed in Tampa, Fl and thanks to my diver-roommate I finally got a chance to try scuba diving. I was instantly sold so after I left the service I went to commercial diving school to fulfill my childhood ambition. I worked in the diving industry for only a few years as working long weeks away from your new spouse was not appealing (at the time ;-) )
My favorite episode of Sea Hunt had almost everything you might want in an adventure show including an underwater scooter race against a beautiful, cheating female. Sorry I do not know the name or number of the episode; perhaps Nemrod or JimLap knows.
Here are a couple of interesting thread links:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sea-hunt-era/164486-sea-hunt.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sea-hunt-era/171085-danger-my-business.html
Good luck with your project, please keep us posted,
couv