Name: Blue Water, White Death
Director: Peter Gimbel
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-06-01
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Tom Chapin, Peter Gimbel, Valerie Taylor, Ron Taylor, Phil Clarkson

Before Jaws terrified us, these lunatics went looking for the real thing — with a harpoon.

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Overview

Documentary

Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and film, for the very first time, Carcharodon carcharias—the Great White Shark. The expedition lasted over nine months and took the team from Durban, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and finally to southern Australia.