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28/11/2007: "FUTURE SEA HUNT STAR ....Early era of Lloyd Bridges"
Following the 1937 movie of the same name, Secret Agent X-9 is a serial made in 1945 featuring a young Lloyd Bridges some years before he starred as Mike Nelson in the famed Sea Hunt TV series
That show inspired many Australians into scuba diving. Tom Allen (mentioned elsewhere on this blog) was often a stand-in for Lloyd in the underwater scenes.
All filmed in Florida's famed Silver Springs (as was The Creature from the Black Lagoon and the two sequels) - fantastic 200 foot fresh water visibility too. Equal to South Australia's Picaninnie Ponds and far warmer.
The X-9 plot: On an island off the coast of China, (Taiwan or Hainan??) Secret Agent X-9 is sent to stop a terrible Nazi-Japanese plot involving an agent preparing to pick-up a formula for a secret aviation fuel.
Australians, Chinese and American's save the day as forerunners to the United Nations.
The Silent World was Jacques Cousteau's Academy Award winning documentary in 1956. It was shown at spear fishing club meetings in Sydney for many years and is an all time classic.
The book of the same name has been re-published. It's interesting to check edits and omissions over the years.
In at least one edition J.Y. Cousteau describes a Leonardo DaVinci diving sketch as a doodle. Yeah, a hundred thousand dollar doodle today.
