Greg found a lobster, which he chased to collect video footage. A film directed by Carroll Ballard, starring Mathew Modine, Jennifer Grey and Cliff Robertson. The story is loosely based on Dennis Connor's account of recapturing the America's Cup after loosing it to Australia. It puts you aboard an America's Cup yacht under sail, bringing you into the experience. And once the big race is over, you marvel at director Carroll Ballard's ability to capture it with such immediacy on film.
Wind is quite content to keep things at the visual and visceral level.
When those sails start popping as they're slapped with gusts of sea air and the tacking gets intense, Wind gives you an adrenaline-filled ride. Refreshments prepared by students of Newbury College of Culinary Arts. Join biologist Jeffrey Seminoff of the University of Arizona and his Earthwatch volunteers in their effort to track the habits and lifeways of endangered Black Sea Turtles in the Gulf of California. You'll get a feel of what it actually takes to gather new knowledge as the team tracks the sex, age, movements, diet and genetic distribution of these magnificent turtles. The film shows the urgency of gathering the data needed to guide conservation strategies to save this creature from extinction.