RyothChatty ridiculous rating

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

jeffclinthill I started watching Sea Hunt when it was first broadcast when I was in the 6th grade in 1958. The show had a significant impact on my life: from my lifelong use of Vitalis because it was the show's sponsor - to getting a SCUBA diving license on my own time and with my own money when I was in the Air Force in 1969 - to SCUBA diving in Japan: from Hokkaido to Okinawa. I was also motivated to read Lloyd Bridges' book: Mask and Flippers in 1969. The book is Lloyd Bridges' own personal life story with diving - beginning with trying to make a diving bell out of an old boiler or some other form of tank when he was 12 years old. When his father came by that dock and saw some other boys pumping a bicycle pump into a rubber tube, he asked "Where's Lloyd?" They told him, "He's down there. We're pumping air to him." By that time, Lloyd had already passed out since the bicycle pump didn't work for supplying air. His father dove down, pulled him out, and recussitated him. The rest of the book is also filled with rather stupid things that Mike Nelson would have never done - such as diving with ear plugs. The book also answers some key questions that Sea Hunt fans would have, such as "The first rule of diving is always dive with a partner. Why does Mike Nelson dive alone?" Lloyd Bridges' answers: If Mike Nelson dove with a partner, he wouldn't get into the dramatic fixes that are the show. And by seeing Mike Nelson get into those fixes, the audience gets the message to always dive with a partner." Two other things about the show that I noticed were done for dramatic effect: 1: So that we can see his full face, Mike Nelson wears a mask that does not have the equalizers to squeeze his nose so he can equalize his ear tubes for diving more than 9 feet. He'd bust his ear drums below 15 feet. 2: Mike Nelson for dramatic effect swims with his arms grabbing handfuls of water and pulling back. That is an exhausting motion that does not afford much movement at all. I know: I tried it when diving. All of us Sea Hunt fans will always remember Lloyd Bridges' charismatic narrations: "There he was. Being eaten by a giant clam. I knew he was in trouble."

raysond This was a show to watch and it was just that....A Man's Show! "Sea Hunt"(Syndicated,1958-1962)was just the beginning of a production empire that was created by Ivan Tors,who would bring some of the most adventurous shows ever produced including the classic shows like "The Aquanauts" "Flipper","Gentle Ben","Primus",and so much more. It also at the time when it was still new the "scuba diving" craze,and from there it launch a new nationwide phenomenon and it still going strong today,thanks to Lloyd Bridges,who is no longer with us,but still left us with some great memories of the show and some of his undersea adventures that are associated with this series.Lloyd Bridges stars as Mike Nelson,a professional diver who lives for adventure under the sea and deals with the experiences of his outgoing adventures as a underwater scuba diver in which some of his adventures are narrated through as he dives down into the deep from some breathtaking scenary and some hidden dangers beneath the waves. The show display some beautiful undersea photography and this is what the show was based on as Mike Nelson goes up against the unexpected each week and no matter how the odds were,he always gets the job done.Yes,Mike Nelson was a Man's man! A Real Man. Tough and ready for action.However,there were some guest stars that appear on the show as well and those that were starting out including several guest appearances from Leonard Nimoy,Bruce Dern,Dennis Hopper,Jack Nicholson,June Lockhart, Dick Sargent,and not to mention Lloyd Bridges'own son Beau Bridges in some of the segments.After the series went off the air in 1962,the producers decided to make a feature length motion picture based on this series and it was to be shown in breathtaking color,but can someone tell me is this out on video?I haven't seen this show since the early 1970's,but most recently,the OLN-Outdoor Life Network has digitally remastered some of the episodes from its original negatives and it comes on daily in certain markets on OLN (Check local listings for times). Thank you OLN for bringing back some good childhood memories!

grahamsj3 I don't think my family ever missed an episode of Sea Hunt! We all looked forward to seeing it every week. I remember that I wanted to experience all the adventures that Mike Nelson (wonderfully portrayed by Lloyd Bridges) and go off with him wherever he went. To heck with running off with the circus - I'd have run off with Mike Nelson! This was good stuff for boys to watch. I seem to recall that my mom liked it as well. PLEASE show this on some cable channel! I want to tape every episode.

JackAustinCrawford I watch this show quite a bit when I was a teenager. Most of it was entertaining, usually factual. There was one glaring exception. In one episode, Bridges' character, Mike Nelson, waxed at great length about the number of people butchered by killer whales and about how all killer whales should be eliminated from the earth's oceans.(!) No, I do not think that Peter Benchley wrote that episode...