The Sea Around Us

  • Documentary
6/30/1953
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A Thrilling World of Wonders You've Never Seen Before!

Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Not that Irwin Allen could ever have done this, but its quite fascinating to watch this in the context of the currently circulating Ocean documentary from Sir David Attenborough looking at just how mankind has profoundly affected the pristine waters that are so clearly and colourfully illustrated in this feature. According to the commentary, mankind only obtained 3% of its total food from the sea at the start of the 1950s, and what we see clearly here is that the natural resources at least had some degree of a fighting chance against fishing fleets or industrial harvesters of minerals that couldnt quite trawl the depths as and where they wanted, in all weathers and in unsustainable quantities. Theres an impressive array of underwater photog...

    July 9, 2025

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