KILLERS OF THE SEA

e [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] to hunt the killers of the sea where shall we go let's look at the the map we'll find perilous Adventure on all these continents and oceans amid the bedin of Arabia the wild tribes of Afghanistan in the mountains of Tibet in Borneo the Never Never Land of North Australia amid the islands of the South Pacific and in the Arctic ice pack for years I have sought thrilled stories in remote places but now for the Supreme thrill of killers of the sea where shall we go why to the United States to Florida to the little town of Panama City a village of Fisher folk headquarters in an epic of man against monster this is the home of the man whose life work it is to Kill The Killers Captain Wallace Caswell one of the world's extraordinary Heroes of Adventure the captain is also the local Constable Civic honor in this tiny fishing town for he is the Nemesis of criminals but they are the criminals of the gulp here at Panama City men live on their cunning with the Nets Nets that need endless care their enemies are the great predatory which devour and drive away the shs of smaller fish and wreck the Nets the leading citizen is Caswell who destroys the Destroyers the Constable sounds a little like country comedy but it's a public tribute here day after day the fishermen lay their Nets and out of the Waters of the gulf take tons of mullet and Pompano here we see no killer fish charging in to ruin the cat hatch and the Nets because it is caswell's Sport to fight them man against monster braving The Sword and the saw shark teeth and the tentacles of the octopus and so he has rid these fishermen of the threat of the killers and now we are to go with Captain Wallace Caswell on a hunt for The Killers we'll see him dive into the sea and fight it out with great sharks battling giant octopus under the water facing the slashing Peril of the sawfish so let's join Caswell we find him about to be interviewed by a newspaper reporter the conable has a new trip planned and the local newspaper man is dropping around particularly ferocious Battlers sharks sawfish slimy octopus And the reporter gets the story of caswell's new found hunting ground and the yarn about this adventure on which he is going on this fish fighting voyage Caswell tells the reporter how his father was a fisherman plagued by The Killers Time After Time his father saw his catch destroyed his Nets ruined Caswell as a boy was his father's Helper and often saw a Shark spoil a day's fishing A Hard Day's Work lost he hated the Destroyers had a grudge against The Killers to the reporter he relates how one day a shark charged into the Nets and got Tangled the boy seized the knife KN and jumped in to kill the snared and struggling monster before the net was destroyed but then charged and Caswell had to fight he dodged the attack and drove the knife into the Raging brute stabbed and ripped the shark killed it and then he knew that he could battle the tyrants of the gulf in their own element and he became the killer of The Killers the fishing Town Hero and now widespread Fame [Music] the headline still to come is the crows we're going on Good Luck CLE I'll sure need luck the fish there are tough where I'm going it's it's a regular hangout for The Killers out in the Gulf of Mexico The Killers of the sea flash through the sparkling water nowhere in the ocean are they more numerous or fiercer it's their playground their killing ground and caswell's happy Hunting Ground so now we're going to hunt with him and off we go on our Voyage of Adventure out to seea we go aboard the princes a sturdy two Mass Schooner typical fishing boat of the gulf Caswell prefers this type of craft for his fish fighting Expeditions a Hardy crew they've grown up with the constable and know his way of hunting in the Deep he has trained them as helpers in this hair raising sport so we're with experts as a Brisk wind takes us out into the Gulf To The Haunt where the big fish play and kill [Music] [Applause] [Music] the town Constable on the lookout for the criminals of the deep he sees a whale of a sight whales in the Gulf you'll find many species of the plunging citation what kind are these caswell's binoculars see far and clear he needs powerful glasses to spy the big fish so now he identifies the finback whale it's of the whalebone type no teeth not a killer to Caswell it's just a harmless mammal of the ocean not the kind for him to hunt and Destroy so let the whales Frisk and Frolic in peace dwood the Constable spies something AAR it's a Marlin gamest of the game nothing for the Fish Fighter to get excited about just something for Rod and real fish and look at Evolution Dark Evolution humorous Evolution yes that's his name Caswell SE cook Evolution has sailed on many of these Adventure voyages he'll do a bit of fishing too Caswell tries his luck with the Marlin it would be an exciting thrill to most of us for him a mere quiet bit of idle sport as the princess our craft sails on toward the lair of the killers [Applause] [Music] [Music] when that Marlin strikes it will be like a Flash and it strikes the Marlin is hooked and the battle is on [Music] they call Caswell the Man of Steel and there you see his muscles of Steel the strength he'll need when he comes to grips with a killer and then he better be a man of steel [Music] the Marlon fights like a fury it's related to the swordfish having a blunt round beak instead of the sharp sword it's a king of tropical game fish a monarch of deep sea Battle [Music] you've got him Caswell you've got him now land him but the Marlin has a kick left a mighty kick it breaks the line and gets away a game battler so never mind that Marlon deserves a break Captain K will Captain K will hey Captain k [Music] there you ain't going to divorce [Music] me and now Sail on steer a course to the watery haunts of The Killers out there in the depths of the gulf where the fish that destroy live so raise the sail every yard of canvas for the wind is fair [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we go gay scut to the sound of a Chanty of the sea [Music] [Applause] we're drawing close to the salt sea Lair of the killers now and there's a feeling of thrill aboard the princess the sailors know there will soon be a fight Caswell at grips with an assassin of the deep blue what kind will it be always before going into action Caswell likes to hear a jolly song a salty sailman cune he's a musical Constable so let the cune ring up out with a shout and a [Applause] [Music] flame on the lookout fish in sight the lookout man has a Keen Eye accustomed to scan the horizons of the sea he he spies a school leaping and playing they porposes not fish really but mammals air breathing no they're not Killers Caswell has not sailed forth today to fight any [Music] purpose on the lookout eager attention but not for the purposes there are hints of more dangerous game than these and the lookout knows the signs and Caswell knows the signs he knows all the lore of the fighters of the deep a seawise eye an eye wise to fish there's more than porpus here there's a killer somewhere hey get ready boys someday they'll get you cap maybe they will and maybe they won't it's a whale and it's the fighting kind this time will Caswell really dare to tackle it fight the whale in the water and bring it back alive it's the bottl nose variety a rare species seldom found and a Savage battler the conable takes off his pants that's the Telltale sign trousers would never do for fish fighting so when you see Caswell climbing out of those pants that means the battle is about to begin Man versus monster overboard he goes diving to the [Music] attack his tactics are to swim alongside and grab a fin or flipper this Bottlenose whale being a mammal has flippers one of these the Man of Steel seizes with a grip of Steel tremendous strength of hand a Relentless hold on the slip [Music] flipper they know that old bottl noose is a formidable antagonist not the whalebone species not Toothless he has Mighty Jaws full of savage teeth kin to Moby deck his greatest strength is in his tail which he lashes with a terrific Drive almost incredible that a man can wrestle with a whale but there it is [Music] how does he do it what's his strategy he uses the cunning of brain as well as the steel of muscles why doesn't the whale dive and carry the man down to the depths because to dive the whale must put its head down and Caswell with stupendous strength keeps the head pulled up why doesn't the whale swim away taking the man with him because Caswell steers the monster by turning his head he knows the whale's anatomy and habits so well that he governs its movements he'll win the fight by tiring out the Leviathan he'll outstay the whale he keeps the sea giant struggling wasting its strength in feudal convulsions so right now old bottl noose is tired out strength waning as Caswell steers Mobi Dick's cousin toward the boat [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] toss out the line boys so he can throw a hitch around the whale all hands on the job even the lookout man descends to deck to lend a hand Every Man's strength will be needed to Heist that huge bulk [Music] aboard the last struggle of the fight and now Caswell it'ses a noose around the [Music] tail up out of the water to direct the job of getting a ton of whale on Deck a tough job of hoisting a strain on the line even Evolution has to help [Music] [Applause] [Music] the lion breaks and down goes bottl nose oh bottl nose with the length of rope around his tail is a free whale in the ocean again and Caswell is disgusted but wait a minute the battle is not over yet the Harpoon that tired whale is an easy Mark for the spear with a barb [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Rope spins out the line attached to the Harpoon bar so lower the boat for another kind of fight this time one end of the line is in the boat the other end is tied fast to the Barb of the Harpoon sunk deep in that whale's tail so hang on to the line Lads and then you'll hang on to the whale [Music] taken for a ride as old bottl noose pulls the boat on a wild chase our fish fighting ADV Adventure is oldfashioned Wailing now in the great wailing days the deep sea Hunters paid little attention to this bottle-nosed variety they went after the giant Greenland whale and the gargantuan sperm whale Moby Dick nowadays Whalers hunt the bottl nose for its oil and do their hunting in just this fashion [Music] a lively interlude in caswell's fish fighting Expedition today this those two chaps are having a bit of fun of their own but they'll have more fun than they realize it seems to them like just an ordinary job of whale catching they don't know the wild thrill they don't dream of it the crazy danger they'll face in just a moment before this Chase is over old bottl noose is still full of fight all set to make matters Lively and he'll show them a trick or two before he's through as he battles on [Music] [Applause] [Music] look out fellows he's coming up right under your boat and now for a spill into the drink they go and now look out for that [Applause] whale old bottl noos is up to some weird tricks today he's about to perform what seems like aerle the two men trying to write their overturned boat can't quite understand how it happens but it does the whale flounders under the boat so that when they write the skiff and turn it over there's the whale in the boat and how will they get him out say you can't ride in our boat Bottle [Music] [Applause] [Music] Nose gives up but you all need is a big Dair [Music] that [ __ ] sailor is having a whale of a time what colored man ever dreamed of having a leviathan in his boat old bottl noose gets out and slides into the scene he has broken the line and away he goes with a rope around his tail and a harpoon in his tail another capture escapes another disappointment that wouldn't happen in fiction but it does happen in a film of fact facts are like that just to make up for the disappointment a sailor catches a fish and what a fish it brings to mind a Pleasant Lake and you toss a fly to catch a bath not one that big except in your fish [Music] story this baby looks like the most Shameless fish Whopper you ever told but tall stories come true in the Gulf of Mexico it's a giant sea bass you could also call it a big mouth bass a bigger mouth than any that this on any tiny fly hook [Music] either the giant sea bass of Southern Waters comes as long as 8 ft and more than 600 lb in weight that one will bring some extra cash for caswell's Crow they'll sell all that poundage in the salt fish so it's a profitable catch also an example of the vastness of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico home of oceanic [Music] Giants ah they' hooked another one another exaggerated seab bass also proving that your story of how big the fish was That Got Away well it may be true because they do get away the lion [Applause] breaks but the bass is floating while above water he becomes filled with air he can't sink so try the Harpoon but the bass gets away in the excitement new excitement now an alarm from the lookout what is he look a fin it's a Telltale sign the cruising fin of a [Music] shark they'll Harpoon this one the Constable will take on the net Caswell fights sharks at close grips this time it's the [Music] Harpoon the Barb has bitten deep into the monsters so they Hulen aboard [Music] it's a hammerhead shark they've got the sort that has a head like a tail a freakish development of the scene the scientists don't know just why can't quite explain how it got that way it's a voracious brute but Caswell is waiting for another kind of tiger shark this Hammerhead belongs to the crew and like all Sailors they hate sharks destroy them without mercy so they don't fool around with this dangerous killer he hacks the shark's neck to break the backbone [Music] but a shark is hard to kill tremendously tenacious of Life dangerous to the last kick and it never seems to stop kicking so look out on Deck there's a mouth full of teeth ready to Rend and Crush as the shark Tangles with anything in sight [Music] [Applause] [Music] Evolution was discovery that Sinister Finn tells it's another shark [Music] an evolution is scared almost white as he recognizes the real terror of the gulf this time Kim cwell Captain cwell I just saw a big tiger Shar yes a tiger shark so it's awful wrestle with that criminal it's a knife for the tiger shark the officer of the law Dives to eliminate the killer of the gulf and the sentence is dead an anxious watch on Deck as under the water swims the Man of Steel beneath his teeth a blade of Steel a thrill to strain the stoutest nerves as Caswell stalks the shark and attacks the [Music] tiger the underwater camera films the scene as the Fish Fighter swims wearily to battle he must maneuver carefully if he ever gets within striking range of that tiger Savage Jaws well it would be the end of the Constable he attacks from the rear and slides up along the shark's side to them it's a familiar but ever thrilling sight Caswell grips the shark's fin a slippery slimy fin but the Man of Steel has a grip of Steel he must hang on and keep behind those murderous Jaws look out for the shark's teeth Caswell and be ready with that knife the knife flashes and he plunges the blade into the Bro always hanging to the shark's fin he strikes again and again with Savage Strokes stabbing always [Applause] [Music] stabbing the tiger shark is the most destructive killer of the gulf an Exterminating menace to the game face a ruinous plague to the fisherman and their Nets so to Caswell this is a supreme enemy and he knifes the shark with a wild thrill of battle and with an energy of deadly Peril The Fish Fighter can stay underwater for an astonishing length of time too but if he were to lose Consciousness for a moment the shark's teeth would crush him Man of Steel with his grip of Steel but if his hand should slip and the shark should flash around at him he would be mangled to death in an [Music] instant did I say before that a shark was hard to kill tenacious of Life Caswell drives the blade home Time After Time it's stab stab stab there must be 100 strokes but still the shark fights on a tremendous job of knife work killing the [Music] killer the battle is ended the Destroyer destroyed so Hoist the carcass of the killer to the Dead the tiger shark is a huge bro medium size is 12 ft long and 600 lb heavy sometimes twice that big sharks are strange creatures is one of the oldest types of fish life RK yet they Thrive today the pests of the sea enemies of all seaf firing people caswell's knife reached far into the vitals of that tiger justifying the Sailor man's belief that the only good shark is a dead shark [Music] but is he dead sharks have a way of playing pawsum lying still apparently lifeless shamming which is a good time to be careful oh what a big baby look out playing pum is right there's still death in that mouth the Killer's Arsenal the most murderous set of teeth on Earth and now a Telltale sign Birds white boobies of the Pelican family in the distance the bird Scouts have spotted dinner a shw of fish [Music] mackerel and the boobies are not such boobies as you'd think they know when they hear the Dinner Bell on they fly Wing Grace over the sea yes this is The Telltale sign when a fisherman sees a flock of birds above the water it means a sh of fish birds feeding on the fish not only that it means Big Fish killers they feed on little fish so now Fisherman's logic tells us that the flight of the boobies points toward Big Fish Killers we're near a haunt of the tyrants of the Gul and the birds lead us on we are Guided by boobies [Music] these waters are our destination the Deep Kingdom of The Killers this is where Caswell has planned to seek the monsters find them and fight them so excitement may break loose at any time there's no space in the wide ocean that has a richer and stranger sea life than this gulf of Mexico on the surface of the water on the ocean floor at every depth there swim and wriggle and creep creatures strange and sometimes terrible so we'll find Adventure here but it will be an unexpected adventure the ship strikes something not a sandar something else what can it be out with the anchor Caswell is curious about anything new in these Waters that are so much his own so he says come on boys let's investigate but meanwhile the sailors do some turtle hunting they spied some of the giant shellbacks of the Gul and they can sell Turtle meat and turtle shell so it's the Harpoon again yes the needle point and razor edge of the Barb driven by a powerful arm it can penetrate the tough shell of the greatest sea [Music] turtle the Zoological name is testitude in but we call them just Turtles most archaic order of reptilian life the testudinata have scarcely changed since the Cretaceous age Cretaceous meaning a long long time ago science says a turtle can live without a brain as some International Statesmen do well fishermen say it's hard to get the Barb of a harpoon out of a turtle's back they spear another of the Giants Turtles are of a vast variety of sizes some as small as fingernails while these Giants of the Gulf of Mexico come as big as 7 ft long a ponderous weight to haul [Music] aboard old boy turtle seems to make a final gesture of turtle Defiance what is it that people say go spit in the ocean there seems to be perfect Turtle hunting today the shell back live to Great ages in fact so long that science is uncertain of the turtle's lifespan well maybe they live until they're caught so this one waves a Turtles goodby they're pugnacious too and battle like Gladiators in armor or maybe this is just a domestic scene well Caswell simply can't resist any temptation to SE fight a monster Turtle makes a powerful antagonist for the Man of Steel his tactics are the same as with the bottl nose [Music] whale he simply keeps the turtle from diving and he does it by constantly forcing its head up above the [Music] water apparently the old boy in the armor never thinks of diving tail [Music] [Applause] [Music] first a rather weird struggle this the Battle of testudinata meanwhile avoid the princes they are making preparations to investigate what was with the boat hit a diver will descend and examine the obstruction on the bottom of the sea strange things may be found on the floor of this historic go this gulf on which sailed the gallions and plate ships of the Spanish concador this Gulf of Mexico once famed for its raish crafts of the Pirates flying the Black Flag the Jolly Roger with the Skull and Bones ships of War fought on the Gulf of Mexico holes Shattered by cannonballs and foundering into the deep ships lost in storm a whole history of merian drama here so what will the diver [Music] find the Explorer of the undersea descends for his submarine investigation he's one of caswell's experts a veteran of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico [Applause] so let's follow him with our underwater camera and see just what he finds of course he finds first of all fish myriads of fishs nowhere in the teaming Gulf will you find a greater abundance of marine life than here no wonder then that this is a lair of the killers and caswell's chosen fighting grounds the diver passes through a fairy land of eerie [Music] Beauty too much Fairy Land too much Eerie Beauty the diver groping his dim underwater way is impeded by the fish that flock about him he can scarcely keep them off in this world of the unhuman he doesn't seem to frighten the finny folk at all although he is a spectacle to frighten his own mother but he's seawise and knows away he lure the fishes from him he finds a kind of sherow fish and opens it with his [Music] knife and that does the tray now he can go on with the investigation no longer annoyed by the much too friendly fish for the mollusk he opened is an abalonia a mother of pearl shellfish and a favorite morsel for the finny feeders so they gather greedly around the tidbit with which their Strang looking friend has so kindly provided them a feed for the fishes a submarine [Music] banquet so now let's see what it was that the princes hit what strange obstruction lies on the bottom but what's that octopus the devil fish slimy slithery hateful a foul monstrosity in a grotesque World a loome nightmare that lurks with Hideous Peril for the diver it has eight arms snaky tentacles each with a row of suckers that cling with a deadly clutch is the dread of every diver the octopus has powerful jaws a Killer's beak its bite is murderous its saliva poisonous and it grows to enormous size sometimes an arm spread of 128 [Music] ft so diver beware he's examining the bottom of the boat what's the obstruction what did the princess strike he's finding that out and all the while the octopus Glides sinuous Sinister like a horrible symbol of sin devil fish is right and they're swarming many of them fantastically Odus he finds a wreck a founded ship Timber rotten with age and the corrosion of seawater a sunken ship of long ago 100 years perhaps and all the while monsters with eight arms for he's in a nest of devilfish what story of shipwreck is signified by this water log HK what Peril of the Sea of old some tragedy of the Gul and and always the octopus the lore of the sea is full of its Terror with its attacks upon human beings and its unmitigated [Music] ferocity the octopus is so Fierce that a devil fish when hungry has been known to attack one of its own tentacles and devour its own arm what's this a tragedy of the sea an ancient chest and a skeleton mournful momentos of some forgotten Story look out there's a shark Peril stalks the underwater man everywhere in this Lair of the killers diver you had indeed better beware [Music] at the air pump heave ho for that Airline is the lifeline there's a climax of peril now a turtle will he attack the diver no but he may attack the airline to the giant turtle that vertical dark strand is a Temptation something to bite and a dangerous Turtle trick that a thing most feared by the diver Peril to his Lifeline he's as much afraid of a big shell back as he is of the grasping embracing smothering tentacles of the octopus and it's a critical time of two-fold peril double danger approaching the climax of this undersea weird World adventure of the diver [Music] the turtle attacks the airline the [Music] lifeline from the severed rubber hose the air bubbles and they are pumping air into a broken line this they notice but they realize only half the diver's Peril they don't know about that octopus the diver's air supply is cut off water flows into his helmet he will suffocate in a few minutes drown and the devil fish Slither to pounce on its helpless victim he Keels over and then the deadly Embrace of the eight slimy arms and their clasping [Music] suckers on Deck they try to pull the diver up the hoisting line is intact but casell sees something is wrong they can't pull the line and he guesses why they can't he surmises what's holding it what's clutching the diver at the bottom of the sea the octopus hold its victim fast and the pull on the Rope can't tear the diver from that python grip of those embracing arms so Caswell must fight the octopus he must release the diver from the devil fish Embrace of death so knife and mouth down he goes in a swift downward swim to the fish killer dripping its prey that killer will take all of caswell's strength and cunning too he must fight with weary skill yet he must hurry for the drowning diver can't live long in his waterfill helmet the men in the boat can't budging for eight arms are clinging to the wreck and to the victim Caswell is an oldtime friend and Buddy of the divers and he'll lose a pal if he doesn't attack Swift and [Music] sure the monster off for battle with this new enemy and now it's strategy Caswell knows the vulnerable spot no good slashing at the slimy arms the ink sack is the vital point the sack from which the octopus spouts black flu so to kill the devilfish Slash the ink [Music] sack that was the Fatal stroke and the fight is [Applause] won meanwhile the men on Deck are hauling the unconscious diver aboard is he alive or is it a drowned man in that grotesque suit his head has been in a water filled helmet for long minutes now only if he has a phenomenal capacity for submersion can he still be [Music] alive to C well his rescuer coming up out of the sea the anxious question is what about his pal is he alive has he succeeded in saving him well there's a happy ending to The Adventure the diver comes too he's okay save for a terrifying experience and an heroic ducking that was an arrow Escape all right but there always are on these fish fighting Expeditions and Caswell himself is now in for a desperate Adventure there goes the lookout man up to his post he's got an important job now there's to be a wild battle with the [Applause] Killer and the lookout spies an added Peril sharks again there's a danger of those Prowlers darting in to get in their own dirty work while the fish fight is on the look op man's duty is to spot the Sharks and he does there's one he gives the warning drive off the Sharks and how did they do it they pepper the sharks with a hail of rifle fire [Applause] [Music] [Music] clear of sharks now for the sawfish so Constable off with those pants big fish have provided many a narrow Escape for Caswell he's a baldheaded conable because he has a silver plate where a killer gouged into his skull now it's for a wrestling bout with a [Music] sawfish a Savage customer to battle a sawfish a giant whose snout is projected as a powerful blade a blade lined with spikes set like the teeth of a saw reminds you of a swordfish though very different the sawfish kin to the Sharks and the sailors know the Peril of the blade lined with teeth in battle the sawfish blade sashes to right and left [Music] the Man of Steel in a culminating exploit fighting the sawfish barehanded with his knife in his belt this time what's wrong there's an astounding moment as Caswell Hees the monster out of the water but he's injured alarm on the boat Caswell has been slashed badly hurt his body gashed by the lacerating teeth of the s that means Blood on the water and blood draws sharks a desperately narrow [Music] [Applause] Escape CASRO was in the hospital for a time his right leg badly mangled by the teeth of the slashing saw he says that big fish gave him his most anxious moment but he has recovered safe and sound again at once more killing the killers [Music]