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Encounters with Animals: Giants of the Vermilion Sea

BBC One
on BBC One London

The last of three films showing man's varied involvement with wild animals on land and in the sea.

Would you swim with a 30-ton whale shark, 50 feet long and with a mouth five feet wide - the largest fish in the world?
Krov and Ann Menuhin - husband and wife film-partners in underwater adventure - did just that, and more. In the Gulf of California, they cruise and dive in one of the richest but least-known seas in the world. They meet huge grey whales, basking sharks, dive-bombing pelicans and the rare blue whale. They join the sea-lions' graceful ballet-and then encounter the gigantic whale shark.

(Winner of the 1983 Bronze Award - Athens International Festival of Underwater Films)

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Narrator:
Hugh Falkus
Filmed by/Director:
Krov Menuhin
Film-maker:
Ann Menuhin
Film Editor:
Hugh Tasman
Source: Radio Times

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