Anthology
comes from Greek words meaning
"to gather flowers."
In this collection of underwater stories, we have
harvested from among those who explore the depths of the
ocean realm, choosing extraordinarily well crafted
professional sequences and placing them alongside more
roughly made footage by dedicated amateurs. Our goal has
been to assemble an anthology that shows the splendid
diversity of life and behavior hidden beneath the waves,
but also to create a dive album that showcases the
extended
family of scuba divers that has grown up since the
invention of the aqualung six decades ago.
We hope that Sensational Seas will evoke the thrills of
diving − those priceless moments when you want to yell WOW
into your regulator and you seem to have merged with the
sea. John Steinbeck, in his book The Sea of Cortez,
provides to my mind all the rationale we need for taking
time out from our demanding routines to explore this new
world:
"...we
simply liked it. We liked it very much.... the gardens of
the sea, and the beer and the work, they were all one
thing and we were that one thing too."
In some of
the most fascinating footage in Sensational Seas, the
ocean opens up and speaks and acts with its own multitude
of voices and dramas: we hear the songs of humpback
whales, feel the fear prey does for predator, see through
the eyes of a bird as it hunts beneath the waves. Such
sensational achievements in video are rare and worth
celebrating, perhaps ultimately because they transform our
earth-anchored state of mind, remove us from daily cares,
and make us affirm that we like diving, we like it very
much.
~ William Warmus
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