Below the Surface
EEING is usually believing, but hearing isn’t always. It was only by retaining a firm grasp on the impressions gained from books and films that I was able to pay the BBC programme Under the Deep Sea (2YA, March 28) the respect due its authenticity. Hans Hass, with his exotic accent and his dead-pan treatment of the incredible, could have been another Baron Mun-chausen-his stories, for all their truth, have the panache of the extravagantly heroic. An exciting programme but not a harrowing one, since it is sufficiently far removed from our normal experience to confer emotional immunity. I cannot, for example, imagine myself sitting underwater on a coral reef like Lotte Hass, taking shorthand notes with a wax pencil. I’m still hoping, of course, that the deluge will be aprés moi.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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135Below the Surface New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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