Documentary focusing on great white sharks.Documentary focusing on great white sharks.Documentary focusing on great white sharks.
Stuart Cody
- Self
- (as Stuart R. Cody)
Peter Lake
- Self
- (as Peter A. Lake)
Valerie Taylor
- Self
- (as Valerie May Taylor)
Stan Waterman
- Self
- (as Stanton A. Waterman)
- Directors
- Writer
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I saw this movie when I was 12. It was the movie that sparked my interest in sharks and the ocean. I have dived with 1000's of sharks in my life and I remain devoted to their salvation. I would pay a lot of money for a copy of the film or a tape of it. I have tried to locate it a number of times. This film needs to be saved and preserved for all time. It is the most important film on the subject of sharks ever made because it is the first of it's kind. It contains historic footage of whaling and the first search and filming of The Great White Shark. This movie is why I became a diver and a dive instructor. This movie needs to be seen by people for years to come.
In 1969 Peter Gimbel set off on the First ever Expedition to Film The Great White Shark. His Team included other World famous underwater Photographers: Stan Waterman, Ron & Valerie Taylor, and also Shark Attack Survivor Rodney Fox.
Their search for the Great White lasted for 9 months and it took them from South Africa to South Australia. A lot of the footage that was Filmed had never been seen before. Some highlights like the dives with the feeding Oceanic Whitetips, and the final encounter with the Great White Shark are simply awesome.
This Documentary is an All Time Classic and is a Tribute To Both the Expedition Team and to the Sharks.
Their search for the Great White lasted for 9 months and it took them from South Africa to South Australia. A lot of the footage that was Filmed had never been seen before. Some highlights like the dives with the feeding Oceanic Whitetips, and the final encounter with the Great White Shark are simply awesome.
This Documentary is an All Time Classic and is a Tribute To Both the Expedition Team and to the Sharks.
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We in this fragile world of ours should do whatever is necessary to educate, everyone, children, parents, etc. We must at all costs, not eliminate these great sharks, that have been put into the oceans for many ions. If we out of ignorance, or greed, destroy these magnificent animals, we will regret our actions. For once they are gone forever, the balance in our oceans will create havoc. No more predators to control the all the seal families: Example: (sea animals with flippers.) Once we create an imbalance such as this, we will not survive as the human race. Beside Blue Water, White Death, there have been many other documentaries on this subject, if we choose not to learn from the past, we will have no future.
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Although I was young when I saw this movie, it has stuck with me all through the years. This is the movie that spawned my interest in sharks! I praise the makers for such a wonderful idea, too bad it got lost in all the Jaws "wake".
Ahoy... I was in Wood's Hole, MA this weekend and was fortunate to be at the screening of this flick in HD. It is an interesting film, with many memorable moments and beautiful ( and sometimes horrifying ) photography and images. The film standing alone is passable, and seems campy within our current cultural frame of reference. However, watching in context, you realize this was the ancestor to many of those glossy animal shows we all love. In general, shoddy craftsmanship technically, but very real. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the genre. In a nutshell, it's allegedly where "Jaws" came from. Dare I say it 're-mystifies' the Great White Shark, and our re-introduction is a brutal experience.
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the few documentaries shot in the wide screen 2.35:1 format.
- Quotes
Peter Gimbel: Now I want to tell you very quickly, what we're trying to do off Durban. We're looking for the animal that I think is considered to be the most dangerous predator still living in the world - the Great White Shark - which attacks the carcasses of killed whales in the Indian Ocean on the whaling grounds off here and, in the last ten days has taken five Sperm Whales over forty feet in length and removed from them all the meat down to the spine in a matter of six or seven hours.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hunt for the Great White Shark (1994)
- SoundtracksCome Along
Written by K. Michael Burke
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $539,488
- Runtime
- 1h 39m(99 min)
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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