User:Seahunter1

Seahunter1 is the user name for a Wikipedia contributor.

The name is contrived from the contributor's personal and business interest in the vintage TV series Sea Hunt which ran from 1959 to 1961 and for many decades after in syndicated form. The Sea Hunt series is still popular today in DVD format and on Vintage Television programming.

Seahunter1, the contributor, was a fan of the series in the 50's/60's and from that influence became a scuba diver in 1958 when the sport was very young and considered very risky (the perceived risk factor was due in part to the excitement and danger portrayed by Mike Nelson, played by Lloyd Bridges, in the Sea Hunt TV series). Seahunter1 has continued to this day as an active participant in the sport and has made scuba diving his life's work. His post graduate education and years as a Public School Teacher prepared him for a career as a scuba diving instructor beginning in 1969. His early, extensive scuba diving experience and training in commercial diving gave him the knowledge to become a recognized expert in diving, an expertise that he has used to develop a large, well-established business in the scuba diving industry based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

His early interest in the TV series Sea Hunt still continues and Seahunter1 has accumulated what is regarded as the largest collection of Sea Hunt memorabilia in the world containing hundreds of Sea Hunt promotional products, comics, books, literature, advertisements, TV Guides, scuba equipment, magazine articles, etc, all related to the Sea Hunt series. Many of the items in this collections are absolutely unique being the only existing or remaining example - working copies of original Sea Hunt episode scripts, artists concept working pages for comic covers and items used on the sets of the Sea Hunt episodes. An additional collection of memorabilia of Lloyd Bridges and his famous acting family (wife Dorothy, daughter Cindy, sons Beau and Jeff and grandson Jordon to date) is quite large and contains more than a few items personally inscribed to Seahunter1.

Seahunter1 regularly displays parts of his collection and makes presentations about it and about the impact of the Sea Hunt TV series on the sport of scuba diving. Presentations have been made in many locations as varied as Toronto, Canada as well as Bahamas, Cozumel, Florida, California, Ohio, etc.

Part of the Sea Hunt collection may be viewed on the website www.vintagescuba.com.