Filmmaker Releases Autobiography Detailing Underwater Adventures
The recent shark attacks in Florida make some people fearful of the water, envisioning scenes from the movie JAWS. But are these fears justified? 5 time Emmy Award Winning Underwater Filmmaker Stan Waterman releases autobiography chronicling his adventures around the globe. At 83, Stan is a legend in the world of scuba diving and this is his story.
Jacksonville, Fla. (PRWEB) July 7, 2005 -- Read first hand accounts of diving
with sharks in the open ocean (out of the cage) and filming them for the movies
Blue Water, White Death the Deep and more. In 1994 the Discovery Channel
presented a two hour special about The Man Who Loves Sharks, Emmy Award winning
underwater filmmaker Stan Waterman. On October 15, 2005, New World Publications
will release Sea Salt: Memories and Essays by Waterman, recounting his 50 years
of filming sharks and other exciting marine life.
Faced with a decision
in life to remain a blueberry farmer and lead a modest life, or take a chance
for a bit of adventure like his heroes Hans Hass and Jacques Cousteau, Waterman
chose the latter. In 1951 he purchased his first Aqualung underwater breathing
system and took his first step toward a life-long career in the underwater
world. Soon thereafter he commissioned the building of a forty-foot dive boat,
packed up the family and angled the bow toward the Bahamas to start a life in
the diving business.
Waterman is the true legendary gentleman of diving.
"... And not just a gentleman but a filmmaker, an adventurer, an explorer, a
daredevil, a gallant, a poet, an intimate of creatures as exquisitely exotic as
the leafy sea dragon and the sloe-eyed cuttlefish and – this above all – a true
pioneer in the discovery of our last frontier, the sea. Stan Waterman has spent
more than half a century in, on and under the sea, and in these pages he takes
you with him on the amazing ride he calls his life. There is excitement enough
in his encounters with wild animals and weird people to fill a hundred lives and
all their fantasies. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to dive in the
open ocean with a huge school of … sharks as they gorge on the carcass of a
whale … at night? Probably not. But hang on, because when Stan recounts scenes
from the filming of the classic 1971 documentary feature film, Blue Water, White
Death, you’ll be there beside him, and astonished that anyone lived to tell the
tale." -- from foreword by Peter Benchley (Author of Jaws).
Sea Salt:
Memories and Essays begins with Stan’s haunting recollection of the contents of
his home on the coast of Maine that succumbed to a fire in 1994. Through his
description of treasures and artifacts from his world travels that filled the
old Maine house, he leads you on adventures to the Aegean Sea, the Amazon,
Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Aldabra, Cocos Keeling and the Turks and Caicos
Islands. The second half of the book is a collection of his writings (most
originally published in Ocean Realm magazine in the 1990’s) describing his
adventures underwater. Vivid descriptions of encounters with a “monster” in the
Caribbean, sea dragons in New Guinea, 62 whale sharks in Australia, a shark
feeding frenzy in the Socorro Islands, his manta ray riding son (pictured in
National Geographic), many different shark encounters and stories from his
various expeditions around the globe.
Stan’s filmmaking career was
launched in 1965 when National Geographic purchased rights to his family’s
tropical odyssey in Tahiti. In 1968 he collaborated with Peter Gimbel on the
classic shark movie Blue Water, White Death, and then later directed underwater
photography for the film version of The Deep. It was during his ten years of
production work with Peter Benchley for ABC’s American Sportsman that he
garnered five Emmy Awards (more than any other underwater
filmmaker).
ISBN# 1-878348-40-X Suggested Retail - $30.00
288 pages,
72 photographs, 6” x 9” hardcover.
For more information contact:
Eric
Riesch
Marketing Director at New World Publications
(904) 737 6558
http://www.fishid.com
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