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King angelfish from
the Island of
Fernandina in the
Galapagos Islands of
Equador.
Human
byPPhaoutl
Video Adventures in the
Galapagos Islands
by George Bell
At first the fish
were
no
more
than
pinpricks in the distance, wriggling to¬
ward the divers. Visibility was poor.
Through the clouded water, streaks of
silver began to flash from the bellies of
the fish. Soon they took shape - a large
school of Galapagos sharks patrolling at
60 feet, their tails sweeping like great
scythes. They seemed to spread out as
they approached and swarmed over the
divers, circling ever tighter with fitful
bursts of motion. One or
came in close, bumping
two
sharks
against the
dome of an underwater camera housing.
"Now, that's a keeper!" Stan
Waterman, one of our principal camera¬
on
Indeed, until very recently
monitor and toweled off after the dive.
At 64, Waterman is an undisputed leg¬
end in the field of underwater photog¬
film has been the medium for adventure
documentaries. It seemed well suited to
the rugged, capricious climatic condi¬
tions that are so often a part of adven¬
ture film work. The field was pioneered
in the late 1920s by Suydam Cutting,
who rolled over two hours of film when
the Roosevelt brothers, Kermit and
men,
said,
as
he stared at the sharks
a
raphy. "You know," he continued,
"judging from the visibility down there,
I would have said
we
didn't get any¬
thing. You certainly wouldn't have got¬
ten anything with a film camera." He
looked around the boat's living room,
unwittingly commanding the attention of
cameramen
August 1987
"field
and technicians half his
"Maybe there's something to this
new fangled video stuff after all," he
concluded, smoothing back his white
hair and flashing an elfin smile.
age.
Teddy, Jr., visited China and Tibet
been
on a
gathering" expedition in 1928.
Since then the discipline has
expanded
upon
by
a
small
corps
of
adventurers-turned-filmmakers, who
saw camera
payment on
American
fees
as a
risk and
Cinematographer
gratuitous down
a
new
pair of
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