Though the episode about a maneating killer whale no doubt predated Namu, Shamu, Kandu, & even Moby "Doll", I saw it afterwards & remembered taking great exception to the story because I used to visit & pet the now late Kandu at Seattle Aquarium. As a kid I was very confused by that episode, because my exposure to orcas was very positive. Still a very good show over all.
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geez I remember that one.
swallowed him whole.
this is one of what I recollect and call the 'goofy' episodes.
to this day I cant help wondering how the &%#^@%^ could an orca digest all that bloody DIVE GEAR???????
another really dumbass one was where they sit out a hurricane at.......
the bottom of the ocean.
uh, guys, 'hypothermia', 'nitrogen saturation' (youre gonna do a couple reaaaaaaal looooong denitrogen stops after that one!!
also, where in BLAZES did all those divers get so many tanks ????? YA CANT CHANGE TANKS UNDERWATER!!!!!! ya gotta have a regulator on EVERY ONE OF THEM !!!!!!!
also hurricanes can last for 2 days straight.
this has to be the ultimate GOOFIEST one.
another one is some dude is setting a dive record and gets to the mark and .......
fumble fumble fumble.....
fumble fumble fumble..............
fumble fumble fumble fumble fumble.
drat. cant 'tie the ribbon onto the rope to prove he got there'
hint: put a *beep* CLIP thing at the mark and then he just has to grab it and go topside!!!!!!
goofy goofy goofy.
but the excitement in the other episodes made up for it.
This episode is truly one of the worst Sea Hunts I have ever seen. It's a disgrace. If the purpose of Sea Hunt was to educate people about the sea and generate interest in underwater life, why would they make a show that portrays Killer Whales as human killers? Spreading lies like this can never serve any purpose.
Then there's the whole bloody revenge thing throughout most of the episode. Butthole Mike endangers 3 people because he needs to kill, kill, KILL!
And he gives some pompous speech about fish take seaweed, and seals take the fish, and killer whales take the seals, and man takes the killer whale. Yeah, but there's one big difference, Mike - all those animals do it to eat, man (and big hip blond widows) do it for pleasure and revenge.
This one really pissed me off, obviously. Even the underwater shots weren't of a killer whale, and when it jumps out of the water near the end, it was a dolphin, not a whale.
Shameful...how the hell could Lloyd ever show his face in public after this one?
The misinformation about killer whales lasted beyond the early '60s when Sea Hunt ended. I took a SCUBA certification course from LA County Lifeguards in 1969 that used a book they published. It said in the book that if you were in the water and you spotted a killer whale in the vicinity you should leave immediately and get on your boat or swim to shore. The implication was that your life was in peril. Killer whales were classified as dangerous just like sharks.
Is it possible that Orca was believed to be a "killer" whale because frogmen, in their wet suits, were mistaken for seals by the great predators? I've heard the theory that many attacks by Great White Sharks were due to this reason. Both Orcas and Great Whites prefer seal meat to human.
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This is all about shock value. So out of character for Sea Hunt. Laughable and rediculous.
shareconovercpa; Saw this episode yesterday. First off, I have fond Child-Hood memories of SEA HUNT and most of the episodes are pretty unoffensive today, but this one really rubbed me the wrong way. Nelson, paraphrasing 'all these Killer Whales should be exterminated'! Extinction is the worse crime that can be committed on any sentient species and Whales think! This is not the same as vaccinating against a bacteria. How a allegedly well educated Man let this get through the first 'read through' is hard to believe.
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