Videos: TCM Celebrates ‘The Deep’

Turner Classic Movies [TCM] has recently been celebrating the underwater thriller “The Deep”, director Peter Yates’ cinematic adaptation of the Peter Benchley bestseller shot largely on location in Bermuda in the summer of 1976. In a long retrospective at the TCM website, film historian Andrea Passafiume — who works for the American Film Institute’s annual Silverdocs documentary [...]

Submerged Cedar Tree Root Discovered

Local divers have discovered what appears to be a Bermuda Cedar tree root still planted in its original location – 53 feet deep on North Shore. The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and the Department of Conservation Services within the Ministry of Public Works has teamed up with the local divers to further study the root [...]

New Teddy Tucker Book’s A ‘Treasure’ Trove!

Diver Teddy Tucker is renowned around the world for his treasure-hunting adventures while Bermudians  have long considered him a national treasure. As “Jaws” author Peter Benchley once said, Teddy Tucker’s legendary undersea exploits helped bring Bermuda to the attention of the world — and helped to bring the world to Bermuda. Now one of Bermuda’s [...]

Teddy Tucker: Grand Old Man And The Sea

Author Peter Benchley – whose 1976 bestseller “The Deep” and the subsequent blockbuster movie adaptation were inspired by his friend’s maritime exploits – once said Teddy Tucker had brought Bermuda to the world and the world to Bermuda. Mr. Tucker, now  in his 80s, has been diving on shipwrecks locally and internationally since the late 1940s. In 1957, he and Mendel [...]

Sink or Swim: The Making of “The Deep”

It was a case of throwing his money in the water, a multi-milion dollar motion picture budget in this instance. First-time producer Peter Guber, a former Columbia Pictures executive, had just launched his own independent production company. He was looking for the sort of tent-pole project which would establish his reputation — and do what the industry [...]

“If Sea Levels Continue to Rise, BDA Will Perish”

A video report courtesy of the Bermuda Environmental Alliance [BEA] shows the effect of sea level rise on Bermuda, showing a cedar tree which was found rooted in the ocean floor in about 22 feet of water – indicating the sea level has risen at least that amount. The video, featuring Teddy Tucker, indicates that [...]

Sunday Spotlight: Marine Explorer Teddy Tucker

Each Sunday, we will spotlight an accomplished Bermudian, posting a page from our Profile Section on the main site. This Sunday, we begin with a legendary figure in the marine world. A world class ocean explorer, Bermudian Teddy Tucker is internationally considered one of the most preeminent in his field. The son of architect Edward [...]

Exploring Bermuda Shipwrecks Interactively

Bermuda is famous world over for our plethora of shipwrecks, attracting divers from all over the world. If you don’t feel like diving down, you can take a e-look at some of our famous shipwrecks with the interactive links provided below. French diver Bertrand Sciboz made a Google Earth file of Bermuda’s shipwrecks using a [...]

Remembering the “Bermuda Blobs”

Of all the things Bermuda is known for the “Bermuda Blobs” may not be the most chic, but in marine science circles they are quite infamous. The original “Bermuda Blob” was an unidentified mass found by diving expert Teddy Tucker in Mangrove Bay, Somerset in May 1988. Mr. Tucker described the blob as It was [...]