Rivers of Sand, 1959 [motion picture].

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Rivers of Sand, 1959 [motion picture].

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This 22 minute color film presents the story of the discovery of underwater sand-falls in the Cape San Lucas submarine canyon, Baja California. The film includes aerial shots of the Cape San Lucas area, an outline of the submarine canyon, beach shots, and underwater footage of fish, an old wreck, sand-falls and sand flows. The film was made by Scientific Diving Consultants in cooperation with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Underwater photography was done by Conrad Limbaugh, Wheeler North and James R. Stewart.

1 reel (22 min.) : sd., col. ; 16 mm. film print.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375385

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Scientific Diving Consultants.

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Limbaugh, Conrad, 1924-1960

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North, Wheeler J.

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Biography Wheeler J. North, Caltech alumnus and Professor of Environmental Engineering, 1963-1992, was a marine biologist and ecologist as well as a pioneer in scientific SCUBA diving. He was born in 1922 in San Francisco and spent his childhood in Mexico and La Jolla, California. After attending Caltech as an undergraduate (BS, engineering, 1944), he joined the army for the US occupation of Japan, during which time he became interested in bi...

Stewart, James E., 1927-

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Diver. From the description of Papers, 1945-1991, bulk 1960-1991. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33249707 ...