Under the Sea With Al Giddings
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Al Giddings, one the world's most accomplished and renowned underwater cinematographer's shares tales and footage from his undersea film shoots - sometimes two miles below the surface - and with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. From years of shooting documentaries and movies including "The Titanic," "The Deep," and "The Abyss," Giddings offers a peak into his library of underwater footage. The brightly colored fish, the fantastic creatures, the Darwinian masterpieces beyond the shore capture our imaginations - and attention. Determined to get his underwater shots, Giddings pushed the realm of underwater cinematography beyond its limit. Learn how he developed new camera housings and elaborate underwater sets. Daring Giddings was the first diver to use a re-breather system allowing him to say underwater longer. The end result is the most realistic underwater scenes ever portrayed - in some of the biggest budget movies ever made. In one of his stories, Al gives a first-hand account of how an abandoned nuclear power plant in South Carolina was transformed to the underwater set of "The Abyss." While Al Giddings is best known to the general public for his work in Hollywood, his personal passion has more to do with natural history filmmaking and preserving the underwater world he so loves. He has captured arguably the most stunning images of Humpback whales ever filmed, shared with the viewers in this special. "Under the Sea With Al Giddings" explores the challenges that come along with filming a subject matter some two miles below the surface. Seventeen-hour dives and a sometimes cruel ocean make for formidable opponents in telling this fascinating epic tale. Viewers will truly benefit from this otherworldly footage.
Under the Sea With Al Giddings
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