Blue Water, White Death
Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and film, for the very first time, Carcharodon carcharias—the Great White Shark. The expedition lasted over nine months and took the team from Durban, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and finally to southern Australia.
From the archive
A few years before JAWS made an entire generation of moviegoers afraid to go in the water, this acclaimed oceangoing documentary captivated audiences with its travelogue approach to photograph the elusive Great White Shark. Adventurer Peter Gimbel and his crew of underwater specialists, including Stan Waterman, Rodney Fox, and Ron & Valerie Taylor, journey 12,000 miles at sea over a six-month period in search of the Great White in this thrilling documentary. BONUS: Episode of the 1973 Australian television series Ron & Valerie Taylor's INNER SPACE narrated by William Shatner, "Man Eater" featuring the Great White Shark.
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Blue Water, White Death (1971) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Peter Gimbel
- Starring
- Tom Chapin, Peter Gimbel, Valerie Taylor, Ron Taylor, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody, Peter Lake
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