Sea Hunt

[Stu S.]

Way back then, E.J. Korvette's department store chain, in Maryland, sold all the scuba gear. They could thank Sea Hunt for that business. I bought a Healthways regulator from another department store called BEST, that was like a Costco membership store. I still have it and most recently used it last year.

 

[scubapro50]

Everyone agrees that Sea Hunt was entertaining if nothing else. Mike Nelson broke so many "diving" rules that in the real world he wouldn't last more than one or two dives at best. ....... For the "TREKIES" ....... a diving SPOC ? ....... yes ..... how many people remember that Neonard Nimroy got his acting start on Sea Hunt by playing various parts that required his character to dive.

 

[Luis H]

Mike Nelson was a TV hero I could relate to. So much TV at the time was Westerns, cops, or war. At age 9, I could not have a gun, but I had a mask, snorkel and fins. I think my dad got them at Montgomery Ward's.

The movie that had an influence on me was Cousteau's "World Without Sun". It was a half of a double feature, following a Three Stooges movie. I was about 11. I still remember the deep diving scenes and the divers helium speech. I have tried to find a copy of that movie and can't. Does anyone know how to get a copy?

Oh, yeah... my NASDS dive table from 1977 says 100 min. for 50 feet.

Thanks / Stu

Go to this thread to find copies of both The Silent World & World Without Sun:

http://www.vintagedoublehose.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=447

 

[wedivebc]

Everyone agrees that Sea Hunt was entertaining if nothing else. Mike Nelson broke so many "diving" rules that in the real world he wouldn't last more than one or two dives at best. ....... For the "TREKIES" ....... a diving SPOC ? ....... yes ..... how many people remember that Neonard Nimroy got his acting start on Sea Hunt by playing various parts that required his character to dive.

Spock played a diver whose wife had gone missing on a wreck dive and claimed her body went to the bottom of a deep abyss. Mike donned "experimental technical gear" and took an "experimental" nitrogen absorbing pill to go to 400ft to recover the body. The whole thing was a ruse to get Spock to confess to what rteally happened.

One of my favorite episodes next to the one called "Rousabout" where a guy uses an oxygen rebreather to help Mike with a rescue and toxes out at 50ft. The depiction of oxygen toxicity should be required watching for all rebreather classes.

 

[scubapro50]

Spock played a diver whose wife had gone missing on a wreck dive and claimed her body went to the bottom of a deep abyss. Mike donned "experimental technical gear" and took an "experimental" nitrogen absorbing pill to go to 400ft to recover the body. The whole thing was a ruse to get Spock to confess to what rteally happened.

One of my favorite episodes next to the one called "Rousabout" where a guy uses an oxygen rebreather to help Mike with a rescue and toxes out at 50ft. The depiction of oxygen toxicity should be required watching for all rebreather classes.

Leonard "Spock" Nimoy stared in 5 Sea Hunt episodes : (08/02/58) The Shipwreck, (08/23/58) Dead man's Cove, (01/04/59) The Alcatraz Story, (07/16/60) Time Fuse, (07/30/60) The Invaders ................

 

[D_B]

 

[Stu S.]

Thanks, Luis. I ordered two.

Stu.

 

[Sam Miller III]

If you remember the sea hunt episode when Mike Nelson rescued a lost bike for a crying kid.

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That particular episode was filmed on the old dark wood Belmont Pier in Long Beach California. The pier was replaced a year or so later with the present concrete pier.

I some how recall that the young child actor was one of his children.

At that time I lived a block away and I was present at the filming. The filming lasted two days and one night just for the topside work.

When shown on TV Mike searches in very clear water--The Belmont pier is inside the Long Beach Harbor and the water is mud like consistancy with about equal visability.

SDM

 

[patymeboy]

nemoy murdered his wife and Nelson tricked him into thinking he was about to retreave the body and solve the murder.

Nemoy also tried to spring his brother from the Rock underwater. He called Mike Nelson, his reluctant instructor "Teach" How disrespectfull of the future Spock

 

[Sam Miller III]

What well known vintage underwater instructors wrote several Sea Hunt episodes?

Hint #1 they are both diving in the big reef in the sky
Hint #2 The both are published diving authors