As you can see there isn’t even an episode guide for this show. Sadly this remake of the classic Sea Hunt show is only available in VHS quality as it was never released on DVD.
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What do you think of that scene? Wanna see the 2nd scuba scene from that episode as well?
Time for some vintage scuba action from a rather rare TV show!
This scene is 60 years old and one of the very early scenes with scuba action in it.
Story: The hero is blackmailed by an evil guy to retrieve some nazi treasure from a sunken ship. The villain doesn’t trust the good guy of course and sends a frogwoman(!) down with him.
Preview:
There she is! The evil frogwoman!
They are ready to dive….
….and soon a scuba fight starts!
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Well, this scene offers a LOT! But it also has two major problems….
Let’s start with the good aspects. In 1960 it was still pretty unusual for women to dive, and especially to have/film a scuba fight like that. She looks great in the vintage rubber wetsuit!
I like the sneaky movie from the villain to drop the speargun down to her, even that plan failed as she couldn’t catch it. The close combat between them is well done and I love the idea of him tying her up underwater so he could handle the bad guy on the surface one on one.
And…of course….she looks even better as she surfaces and is still wet in that great outfit 🙂
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Now the two big problems I have with that scene:
a) It is filmed in black and white! Ok, even in 1960 that was still rather a normal procedure. But the whole scene would look sooooo much better/sexier in color!
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b) the frogwoman turns into a frogMAN underwater! Back in the day, it was (sadly) a rather normal thing that a man would double a woman in an action scene as there were nearly no stuntwomen to do that. However, it is really horrible when that happens!
And here it is verrrry obvious as the evil diver has suddenly no more breasts, and his legs and arms are way too pumped in comparison to the woman on the boat.
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Damn, I would love to see a remake of this scene! In color and with a frogWOman underwater.
And then a really long struggle before he manages to defeat her and ties her up underwater.
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Wanna know from which movie/TV show this was taken? Here you go:
Well, I have to say I wasn’t that excited about a new movie with scuba scenes since I saw the trailer for “Sanctum” several years back!
This one seems all about two frogwomen (sisters actually) and their diving trip that really takes a bad turn. I don’t understand the Swedish dialogues in the trailer, but it is rather easy to understand the basic story:
As one of them is trapped underwater the older sister needs to supply her trapped, younger sister with full air tanks to stay alive and find a way to free her before all air supplies are gone.
And the trailer alone shows already quite a lot of scuba peril scenes and hints at how much there might be in the full movie. I’m not the biggest fan of drysuits, but that is only a minor issue. They have modern full-face scuba masks, actually quite a rare sight in movies. And the last FFM’s I saw in movies were masks that were designed just for the movies, and they weren’t very attractive.
As you can see in the last moments of the trailer the movie will premiere in Sweden on February 14th. It doesn’t have any premiere dates for other countries now and somehow I don’t think that will change that close to the premiere. I do hope that the movie will surface along with subtitles in the near future as I really MUST see this one!
An interesting detail: 1:21 into the trailer there is a diver with a different scuba mask. Is that another diver? If yes, who is he/she and what does this diver intend to do?
Or is the diver her older sister? But why would she now use a different scuba mask? Is her old one broke by then? Many interesting questions 😉
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Official storyline:
A few days after Christmas, Swedish/Norwegian half-sisters, Ida and Tuva, set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline. Towards the end of the dive, a rockslide traps Tuva underwater. As Ida surfaces to call for help, she discovers that the rockslide has struck above water as well, burying their equipment, phones, and car keys… they are completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue. As the frantic race for survival unfolds, Ida is put to the ultimate test of character and forcefulness. During Ida’s fight to save Tuva, a fractured sisterhood is exposed, and when all seems lost, the stakes rise beyond simple survival.
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Here are some promo posters I discovered the last days:
This is a rather special scene I forgot to upload so far.
It’s a rather rare movie that is nearly 30 years old…but luckily it was shown in full HD on TV!
Story: A female scuba diver explorer the underwater world alone as suddenly she gets attacked from behind….
Preview:
She explores the underwater world!
But someone is sneaking up on her….
….to steal her regulator!
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Hah, I am sure you were surprised by that twist! 😉
Pretty brutal “test” to attack his own daughter like that and to rip out her regulator!
I guess many here would have loved to see what would have happened if that wasn’t a test, but a real attack. 😉
However, I really like the sneaky attack and the short struggle afterward. Sadly there is no other scuba scene in that whole movie which made this opening a little …..odd.
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The title of the movie was actually in the video…but in case you missed it:
Sorry for not posting on the weekend, I was away most of the time.
But here is a short video with a nice Japanese frogwoman in action. Not underwater but on dry land. Thanks to whoever recommended me this one last January.
Preview:
There she in full gear!
Action!
Let me unzip this for you….
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Well, I must admit, for me, the clip is somehow nice, but nothing special, but I guess it’s a good video for some of the wetsuit folks out there who like to see a woman in action while wearing a wetsuit. Sadly there are no underwater scenes with her at all, otherwise, they would have been in the video ;-).
The change from wetsuit to her “normal” clothes is hilarious. Interesting to see what she was supposed to wear under her wetsuit. Even cowboy boots. And it takes a “little” longer to get out of such a wetsuit 😆
I do like her trick to seduce the guys by slowly opening her wetsuit zipper. What a nice distraction 😉
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I’m not sure about the exact episode but the title of the TV show is:
This scene was laying around on my HD for some months, totally forgot about it….thanks to the one who recommended it to me!
In this scene of a german movie, we have a bunch of treasure hunters that dive to find some important historic treasure.
One of them is a female professor with only a little diving experience….and in this case, that brings her into trouble! 😉
Preview:
Ready to dive!
There she is! Already…
….in trouble!
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Yeah, it gets dangerous underwater if you don’t know what is behind you…
And when that valve breaks….you are into deep trouble. But at least she wasn’t alone, even she wasn’t really near her group.
However, always an ….interesting…..sight to see so many bubbles ascending to the surface 😉
If you don’t speak german and wanna know about the dialogues:
Before the dive, the female professor wants to join the dive. The leader doesn’t want her on that dive due to her low dive experience. She insists and he gives in.
After the dive, he asks her why she wasn’t close by and why she was so reckless….blabla.
These scenes are from a very new movie, I tried to upload the short clips (under 4 minutes) on Youtube, but they were blocked right away (like in the past with the prequel to this movie).
So, these videos will only be on this Blog, but not on my Youtube channel.
In this movie, we got 4 very young women that wanna explore an ancient underwater cave system.
And SURPRISE….that wasn’t a really good idea 😉
They have to fight monstrous “ghost” sharks and their dwindling air reserves!
Preview “Getting ready to dive / Descend to the caves”:
^^^WATCH BOTH VIDEOS FIRST BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING!^^^
Well, you didn’t expect that ending! 😉
For that reason, I avoided any hints of drowning in the text and pictures above.
This one is a pretty great one for the drowning-peril fans out there.
I wanted to watch this movie for a while and I was spoilered that she would drown in that scene….unfortunately.
Never expected to see a shark “drown” a female diver. Yes, of course, that wasn’t his intention, but by biting into her scuba gear, he forced her to give it up.
And without it -deep down in that cave system- she hadn’t had a chance without any help in range.
She drowns pretty quick, but in her state of panic, with the shark on her tail….no surprise.
The movie offers a lot of underwater scenes as they are underwater for at least 75% of the movie!
I generally like full-face scuba masks, but these aren’t my taste. They show “everything” (what the producers clearly wanted) and look very “unstylish”.
The scuba gear is incomplete with these “shorty” wetsuits and the missing fins. For me, more would be …..more here 😉
The “we run out of oxygen soon” is a topic for parts of the movie, but unlike in the first movie, it wasn’t handled very well in this one in my opinion.
However, I strongly recommend that you watch the whole movie if you like to see these 4 frogwomen in underwater peril for a looooong time!
