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A frogwoman in black rubber in a shark documentary from 1971

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I stumbled upon a very new documentary “Playing with sharks: The Valerie Taylor story” about the (very remarkable) life of Valerie Taylor.

Until then I haven’t heard about her…but that knowledge gap could be closed 😉

That documentary is well worth a watch, I highly wanna recommend it!

But this post is actually (mostly) about another documentary….a documentary that is mentioned several times in “Playing with sharks”.

 

A documentary from 1971, with sharks…and Valerie Taylor in black rubber for most time underwater!

The film crew is on the hunt for a great white shark as they wanna film him underwater as he is feeding….something that was never done before (before 1971)!

For you folks I made a highlight cut with my favorite scenes 😉

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Watch the video before you continue!

There are a lot more scenes of her in that rubber suit, but then the video would get way too long 😉

Some years earlier she might also have used a double hose regulator, but those were already on the retreat since the mid-’60s.  🙁

But I really love her suit…for me, it can’t get much better than such a black rubber wetsuit!

And did you realize that fish did bite in her air hose at around 2:38???!

 

That fish was just curious…luckily for her, that bite wasn’t strong enough to puncture her only air hose.

Of course, even that wouldn’t have been a problem for her as she is a very skilled diver and help would have been nearby.

But still, I really like that scene! I wonder what would have happened if she had had a corrugated air hose…. as these are way easier to damage/puncture.

 

The documentary itself….is very problematic….from today’s point of view.

The research on sharks was only at the beginning and it shows big time. This documentary was watched all around the world and I think it’s safe to say that it played an important role in the development of Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”.

Taylor did actually film some shots for it some years later with her husband.

I still really love that movie, even I know it’s fantasy and that sharks don’t behave like that.

For the sharks that movie was surely catastrophic in many ways.

In the new documentary “Playing with sharks” that I mentioned earlier….Valerie Taylor reflects a lot on how her attitude towards sharks and sea life in general has changed over the years.

So, I can recommend to watch both documentaries as you then get the whole “picture”, even you should have a strong stomach for watching the old documentary as there is a lot of cruelty vs aninmals….especially whales….in it.

Here is a picture of the new documentary:

Also….a lot of interesting scuba gear from the ’50s onwards…in this one.

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Wanna know the title of this documentary?

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A moron trapped underwater….but 2 female and one male are smarter than he is [Baywatch]

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Time for another good scene from season 10 of Baywatch!

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Don’t know how that dude managed to get trapped like that…. perhaps he only wanted to be rescued 😉

In that case, his plan worked as one hot lifeguard was around to rescue him with her colleague.

Nice that the two women struggled shortly as the girlfriend didn’t want to surface.

Of course, I would have rather preferred to see her in a wetsuit, but it makes sense as there was no time to get into one.

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The scene can be found in this episode:

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A female scuba diver in heavy scuba gear in peril!

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I heard about scuba scenes in an older family TV show with 6 seasons.

I skipped through every episode to check for female scuba scenes. Actually, there were only 3 of interest and only one of them has some interesting action.

Today I wanna present that one!

The scene is quite long and I wanna show it without cuts.

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I know such heavy gear and drysuits are not for everyone’s taste, but I think some may really enjoy this scene! Her Kirby Morgan hardhat isn’t among my favorites for sure, but I guess some of you may love it.

The clear advantages here are that you can hear the communication between her and the surface and that we can also hear her breathing sounds….a LOT! You won’t find many videos where you can hear a diver breathing to that extend.

It’s nice that they change the classic “diver is trapped underwater with 10% air left” scheme here. It’s a family TV show and perhaps that’s why this is a rather “light” peril scenario.

She is trapped, but she is also not in immediate danger. Her air isn’t running out as she gets air from the surface. Also, she isn’t stuck, but “only” her air hose is, seemingly not damaged at all.

Honestly, I don’t know much about the scuba physics behind hardhat diving like that. She is in 300feet depth and that for quite a while. That is far below any “normal” scuba diving. Don’t know how much or if lengthy decompression stops would be needed with such a hardhat setup, but perhaps they just didn’t show them here.

It’s very odd that he didn’t accompany during the dive in the first place! Why did she go down there alone? Especially as it is an am important and difficult task. Not 100% sure if it’s the actress down there or if it is even a woman at all in the underwater scenes. Very suspiciously they are never showing the inside of her helmet in a way that you can get a good look at her eyes.

In my version, there would be perhaps another frogwoman down there with them. They both hate each other but are forced to work together on this task. As one of them gets trapped the other one sees an opportunity…. Perhaps she would then play with the air hose of the stuck diver….or something like that 😉

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Wanna know from which episode of which TV show this is?

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The episode name is “Deep Peril” (nice title) from season 2, that’s for sure.

IMDB says it’s episode 16 from season 2, my info is that it is episode 13.

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The frogwoman, the falling rock, and her ruptured air hose! [+Bonus scene]

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Time for certainly one of the best underwater peril scenes from Flipper!

Damn, I wish this newer Flipper series would be released on Blu-ray, HD TV/streaming, or at least on DVD at some point, as the picture quality is rather bad.

But as this show is over 20 years old and isn’t well known…this might never happen 🙁

Nevertheless, I really like this scene as there are quite some interesting aspects to it!

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Ok, the whole “rock floats down, slices her high-pressure air hose, but doesn’t hurt her at all” aspect is really, really weird and makes no sense.

But besides that realism aspect….it’s a pretty great scene!

First of all, these two are experienced divers in the show, it’s completely irresponsible that her dive buddy decides to leave her and surfaces without her.

Well, the scene dictates that she has to be alone down there as the mysterious guy couldn’t save the “frogwoman in distress” when the other one would be there to help her.

It’s a little odd that she doesn’t react to the other woman trying to contact her and that she seemingly isn’t much concerned that her air hose was ruptured and doesn’t react to it. But ok, maybe she was in shock by the whole development, so…..I guess that’s somehow understandable.

Lucky for her the mysterious guy shows up, yanks her mask off, and puts the octopus regulator into her mouth. Nice timing dude!

And yeah…. spoiler alert….he is a real human…. and not a product of her imagination.

Later in the episode, they have 2 short dive scenes together without action.

And by the way: “My air hose was ruptured!” …..that’s a real trigger sentence for me! 😆

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Wanna know from which episode this scene is?

IMDB is all messed up on season 4 of this show.

But it should be season 4, episode 8, “Waterworld”

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P.S.: BONUS snippet!

Too late I realized that the scene is continued on the boat after the starting credits, so check this out:

“Sure it wasn’t Sean Connery?” she asks smiling big time….

LOVE IT! 🙂

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An exotic beauty in a rubber wetsuit

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This one is from a very rare movie (around 50 votes on IMDB).

It’s an Italian movie, but luckily at least some subtitles are available.

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Yeah, I’m not a fan of such old bathing caps (scream grandma to me) and she isn’t wearing a full wetsuit….but it’s a sexy rubber vintage jacket, and also she is using a double hose regulator!

Enough reasons for me to put this scene on this blog! 😉

Never seen that mouthpiece, it looks like a verrrry simple design. But well, it seems to work.

Of course, I wouldn’t have “minded” if she would have run into some trouble underwater…but well it’s a solid scene 😉

She looks really stunning in that gear and I’m pretty jealous of him….I have to admit.

Sadly it’s the only female diving scene in the movie.

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Wanna know from which movie this scene is from?

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A female scuba diver stuck underwater….and a public “nuisance”

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Time for another post!

This video could have been only half as long, as the 2nd part is the scuba scene….but for ….reasons….I think it’s nice to start the video a little earlier 😉

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Yeah, these Baywatch guys have a really nightmarish job 😆

And that father was really annoyed as hell about that view 😉

The peril scene is short but quite good. In at least some moments it looks as if only the forward part of her fin is stuck under the rock (however it got stuck there?!?).

So, she should be able to get out of her fin on her own. But either she wanted to save that fin at all costs (the Baywatch guy leaves it there) or her whole foot is supposed to be stuck under it.

However….it’s a classic peril scenario! Personally, I would prefer to see her in a wetsuit instead of a bikini…..but well, tastes are different.

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2 frogwomen, a dolphin, a sunken plane….and Navy frogmen!

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The new(er) Flipper series has still some quality scuba scenes in store that I will continue to post here.

As this episode has 2 long scuba scenes I divided them into 2 videos as well, as very long videos on Youtube can be trouble.

In this episode, two frogwomen dive to find evidence that a plane was shot down so the one frogwoman can rehabilitate her father’s name.

But the Navy isn’t too thrilled about it and sends Navy frogmen after them….

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They were nearly out of air and are diving into a dangerous wreckage of a plane….

My first thought was immediate that one of them would get stuck there….but, as that scheme gets too predictable….I’m glad that it didn’t happen.

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And here comes scene 2!

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Well, if I hear about Navy frogmen I immediately think about my favorite movie of all time 😉

Well, here no scuba battle breaks loose…..damn! But ok, as the divers in the plane were the good guys…. there was no real chance of having a scuba battle against Navy divers.

After all the guys didn’t work for SPECTRE 😉

But it was nice to have the Navy frogmen in the scene, it was nice how the one guy did hold onto the tanks of both frogwomen. Just for a second, I thought about he might turn off their air supply 😉

I do enjoy seeing these Interspiro Divator masks on the frogwomen, it’s a great, good-looking scuba mask for me.

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The martial arts villainess in a rubber wetsuit

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First of all, thanks a lot to the friendly guy who recommended me this scene!

The scene has clearly some minus points….but for a movie from the ’90s, it has a really sexy rubber wetsuit! Yeah, I know…..it’s not really made out of rubber….very sure it’s smooth skin neoprene…but it sure looks great!

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Ok, let’s start with the negative aspects for me. It’s another movie that has scuba divers but doesn’t have one second of scuba diving in it 🙁

In my version, the Yacht would be anchored and would have had some security frogwomen to protect it, so there would be a nice scuba fight before the bad guys enter the yacht. 😉

And also, the villainess/henchwoman surely can kick ass, but well…..she isn’t really attractive. You can see her without the scuba hood at the very end of the video….in case you missed it.

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But on the good side…. it’s great to see a woman in such a suit kicking ass! Something really rare….

It seems like she would completely do her own stunts, so I guess she is/was a stunt performer in the first place.

And also….no surprise….I love such wetsuits! You can’t come much closer to a 60’s vintage rubber wetsuit!

And it’s nice that the wetsuit is a little wet in these scenes, it surely looks better that way.

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The scene with the fire extinguisher was quite odd. The villainess seemingly thought that she could use her scuba mask as she put it on before checking that closet. And instinctively she managed to kick the princess….ok, she escaped anyway but textbook villain-actor Robert Davi showed up to stop her.

But ok, it’s (supposed to be) a comedy, so I guess they thought let’s spray her with fire extinguisher foam.

 

Let’s end with a nice thought:

Imagine Luciana Paluzzi (Fiona Volpe in Thunderball) in that suit……… 😉

 

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The female scuba diver and the sharpest net in history!

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…but don’t you worry, she won’t be sliced into parts, this isn’t from a horror movie 😉

I posted all the good female scuba scenes from seasons 1-9 of Baywatch in HD.

Seasons 10 and 11 were not available in HD for a long time….that has changed now, so it’s time to present the good female scuba scenes from these episodes as well!

This one is a rather famous one that I wanna post first, even there are interesting scuba scenes earlier in the season.

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Ok, this is so absurd that it is really funny! 🙂

A net cutting through a modern regulator hose like that???? Oh man! That is very……creative….to say at least 😉

It’s already pretty hard to cut such a hose with a scuba knife. But this net seems to be the sharpest net in history! A net right from hell, it would slice all fishes to pieces 😆

The lifeguards and the other diver behave quite strangely….

The two lifeguards aren’t well prepared. First, shouldn’t they have scuba masks stored on their jetskis? Would be useful! They dive down to her, can’t free her and one has to surface to get a knife from the scuba guy. Why isn’t he down there to help them? His scuba tank doesn’t seem to be empty, he could provide air for the rescue. Then they realize that they might need air and one surfaces to get 2 spare air tanks. Why didn’t they take those in the first dive? And the scuba guy had a scuba tank and a knife…why didn’t he use his knife to free her earlier?

But ok, realism and strange behavior aside….this is quite a nice scuba peril scene!

The camera zooms in relentlessly on the ….”well equipped”….. diver, she gets into peril and illustrates that very well with her ….moaning… sounds. 🙂

Also, it’s good to have a change to the classic “trapped in a net setting” where a diver which almost no air left gets stuck in it.

Here she is trapped, but seemingly has enough air left for a while. The scene only gets really perilous as her air hose gets sliced by that net from hell which puts her into immediate danger.

It’s unclear if she has a 2nd regulator, but maybe she couldn’t have reached it the way she is entangled in the net.

The sound of the escaping air and the sight of the cut air hose spewing bubbles…..is quite sexy!

Interesting that the scene on the surface wasn’t cut in another way…interesting that they let the frames in where the lifeguard gropes her right breast.

Maybe they thought no one would notice…. 😉

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Wanna know in which episode this scene is in?

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