Sea
Salt
Stan Waterman
An adventurous autobiography from
one of the great legends and true gentleman of diving: Sea Salt: Memories and
Essays by Stan Waterman.
"... 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 certifiably anthropophagous 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 Forward by Peter
Benchley (Author of Jaws).
Born in 1923, Stan was a blueberry farmer in Maine for a while, then in the
1950's he converted a fishing trawler into a charter dive boat and angled the
bow toward the Bahamas. For a decade he eked out a living traveling the back
roads of America showing his hand-spliced films. In 1965 Stan took his family to
live and play in Tahiti. Success was launched when National Geographic purchased
rights to their tropical odyssey. Later he directed underwater photography for
the film version of The Deep, followed by ten years of production work with
friend Peter Benchley for ABC - in the process he garnered five Emmys.