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Secret Seas of the Channel Islands
The video seems to be vanishing FAST, and the CD-Rom was always a bit of a pain to use. But in this new world in which TVs and PCs are merging into single entertainment centres, the diving DVD is coming into its own.
Lets start at the high-quality end of the spectrum. Sue Daly spent six years making four 25-minute films about the Channel Islands, and these are now out on DVD.
Making use of excellent visibility at the southernmost extreme of the British Isles, she has succeeeded in showing just how colourful our native undersea life really can be.
Creatures such as triggerfish, seahorses, white sea-fans and sunset corals might not appear that often further north, but much of the life shown here could be witnessed, albeit more murkily, on any British dive.
The films cover Channel Islands shipwrecks (seen primarily through a marine biologistss eyes - nice footage of a broken-up Flying Fortress and of conger-feeding); the marine life off Sark, and on the fringes of Jersey; and the chronicle of changing seasons in that islands Bouley Bay.
There isnt too much sign of divers because the camera zeros straight in on its subjects. Narration is professionally handled by John Nettles (who but Bergerac for this job?).
(£14, Sue Daly Productions, 01534 864541). |
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