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...this was no imaginary corner of outer space. For a typical underwater interlude in the shooting of Sea Hunt, one of the world's most widely syndicated TV dramas, Tors & Co. were in the depths of a huge kelp bed off Santa Catalina Island. The film they were making is being seen over 167 U.S. TV stations, and broadcasted in 20 other countries in eight languages. Though distributed on film (by Ziv Television Programs, Inc.) rather than on a network. Sea Hunt is among the ten top-rated U.S. syndicated shows...
Born & Dies. O'Flaherty's chosen people are the Aran islanders, who live "in primitive simplicity, as their ancestors had lived for thousands of years." Turf and cow dung are the fuel, kelp dragged from the sea is the fertilizer; potatoes or fish are the food. A rasher of bacon represents luxury, and a dry cow may make the difference between starvation in winter and life for another year...
...Director William M. Mann hopes that they will thrive, but he is not too confident. Sea otters have never been exhibited before, partly because of their rarity and partly because the odd conditions of their natural habitat are hard to simulate. They live in the great beds of kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins...
Baby sea otters ride on their mothers' chests. No natural enemies attack them except killer whales, which can easily be eluded in the waving fronds of the kelp...
...need, Bill is what Californians approvingly call a "beach bum." He lives in a small, pleasant shack squeezed between the Pacific Coast Highway and the rocky shore two miles north of Monica. He swims, water-skis, sails, chases fish underwater with a spear, dives for spiny lobsters in the kelp beds, pries abalones off rocks. In quiet moments he sits on his porch, a high dive from the water, and feeds bagels to sea gulls. It is a pleasant life for a relaxing warrior, but always some odd airplane is waiting behind the mountains...