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For anyone that is interested, the original Lloyd Bridges Sea Hunt episodes are available on DVD. All four seasons are available (usually) and there are 8 DVDs per season. They are being sold through Amazon.com by a guy in New York (jukebox_theater). A search of Amazon DVDs for "Lloyd Bridges Sea Hunt" will bring them up. They are a little pricy and sometimes a season is not immediately available. (about $30-40 USD.)
Since my original training was DTBWSH (Divers Trained By Watching Sea Hunt) (Oh good, another acronym!) and I have just gotten back into diving, my wife and I were discussing the old series. I was in High School at the time and never missed an episode. Seriously, Sea Hunt was the reason I dove in the sixties. It was either that or fly a helocopter (remember "Whirly Birds"?).
I got the first 2 years and they are "great". I had forgotten how many "noobie" actors were in the shows. Leonard Nemoy and Larry Hagman were in a couple and so were Beau and Jeff Bridges. Anyway, I guess our recent OW training wasn't too bad: my wife keeps picking out things like "he isn't blowing bubbles", "why is he climbing the ladder with his fins on", or "why is he carrying a bayonet".
It is also interesting as to how attitudes have changed since then with regard to bottom banging, coral bashing, shark fear and so on. In one episode, "Killer Whale", Mike talks about the Coast Guard's network to track dangerous Orcas that are threatening divers and he helps kill one with an exploding harpoon. The times, they are a changing
By the way, the kid with the bicycle was Jeff Bridges and the episode was "The Birthday Present".
Since my original training was DTBWSH (Divers Trained By Watching Sea Hunt) (Oh good, another acronym!) and I have just gotten back into diving, my wife and I were discussing the old series. I was in High School at the time and never missed an episode. Seriously, Sea Hunt was the reason I dove in the sixties. It was either that or fly a helocopter (remember "Whirly Birds"?).
I got the first 2 years and they are "great". I had forgotten how many "noobie" actors were in the shows. Leonard Nemoy and Larry Hagman were in a couple and so were Beau and Jeff Bridges. Anyway, I guess our recent OW training wasn't too bad: my wife keeps picking out things like "he isn't blowing bubbles", "why is he climbing the ladder with his fins on", or "why is he carrying a bayonet".
It is also interesting as to how attitudes have changed since then with regard to bottom banging, coral bashing, shark fear and so on. In one episode, "Killer Whale", Mike talks about the Coast Guard's network to track dangerous Orcas that are threatening divers and he helps kill one with an exploding harpoon. The times, they are a changing
By the way, the kid with the bicycle was Jeff Bridges and the episode was "The Birthday Present".
