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UNDERWATER prospectors have taken up the hunt for tidelands oil. California's Monterey Oil Co. is sending down teams of diver-geologists to prowl the ocean bottom (to depths of 150 ft.), looking for likely formations in areas where seismographic exploration with dynamite is forbidden...
...diving, Fred Eton and Art Marvin have both looked good, but Brooks is hoping that Joe Ellis, whom he considers a diver of national calibre, will come out for the team in the near future...
...Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty of the sea, but the reef, lying in wait to grab the unwary diver, "never forgets...
...Greeks sponge on the Conch sponging grounds. The Conchs steal the Greeks' catch. The Paris of the piece (Robert Wagner) then runs away with its Helen (Terry Moore), the daughter of the Big Conch himself. Together they go out to the diver-dreaded twelve-mile reef. The underwater photography here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father...
...rapture of the depths is much like the mountain climber's euphoria, the exuberant dizziness that blinds the climber to danger when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going...