American Cinematographer - October 1983 - 88

We

were

about to discard this

one

be¬

instead of

swimming through
the shot he would simply give up half
way through and sink down to the
cause

deck. One

time

more

tried him,

we

and this time he did better. As Gavin
went to catch him he took off like a

shot, with Gavin holding on for dear
life. I

was reminded of a motorcycle
holding on to the handlebars of

rider

his bike with the throttle stuck wide

open. First he took him to the surface,
and then made a dive for the bottom.
was half way back to the surface
before several other divers could help

He

subdue him.
We did have safety divers whose
job it was to protect the camera crew
and doubles from shark attack. They
had "bang sticks" loaded with 12ga.
shotgun shells, and positioned them¬

selves behind the

camera

whenever

possible. Unfortunately, a "bang
stick" will not go off unless you hit the
fish in the top of the skull. The under¬
side of the fish is too soft to provide
enough impact on the barrel, and the
thing just bounces off of him
harmlessly. So much for bang sticks.
Our time

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dering what we were going to do
about closing the gaps in our cover¬
age with the big shark. Then Lady
Luck smiled on us. We got another
one. We couldn't believe it. Five days
later, we had it in the can, and the
shark in the freezer. That's

Beautifully
Simple

shark's demise, as a construction

lifting him from the Seaquarium boat he was still thrashing
about occasionally. This was after
having three shotgun slugs put into

..

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the
"See

Connery did indeed join us, for
days. He is not a professional

diver, nor does he even dive for

dealer

86

hoping that Sean Connery himself
might join us, and we wanted to have
a shark for him to play against. So we
put the shark in cold storage.
Amazingly enough, the night of the
crane was

Beautiful.
because it's fresnel-soft and
uniform - ideal for video. And simple because
if 250 Watts is too much, change to 150
Watts. Need more? Goto 350 Watts. Want to go
.

right, the

freezer. You see, all this time we were

caves.

Our dive boat

Staniel

Cay, and

to work

waiting for us at
able to go
immediately. The

was

almost

we were

"sled" with the atomic bomb aboard

worked

quite well, and the sharks

handlers shifted into
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