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Makisupastar - Ocean Force Review.

Is Maki next?

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I DVR'd two episodes and watched them both this morning. Cool stuff! Nice job, Maki! I'll see if I can convert it to YouTube tonight.

I'm always curious about how these "true life" shows get filmed, and whether they re-create any scenes for the cameras later. Maki, any idea about this? Like, a scene where a lifeguard jumps off the high pier to rescue someone in the water -- they show the jump from the vantage point of someone already in the water, near where he lands. Or you'll see a lifeguard swimming out to rescue someone, and they'll show an underwater view of him/her swimming past the camera. I'm guessing they are re-doing scenes later? :confused:

And that scene of the lifeguard hunting for his wedding ring in the sand, because he supposedly "took it off so I could put on sunblock". Yeah, a likely story! :smug:

Anyway, I was entertained. Will look forward to more episodes. :cool:

Jumping from the pier is pretty common. On a South Swell the current pushes laterally into the pier from the south to the north. This makes a really busy day for the Tower 1 guard who works the water just south of the pier. Often he's in the water, and the Zero guard is standing by on the pier. When you're working zero you jump often to go down and assist the tower 1 guard. The crew had people in the water on the south swells. They were just hanging there at the peak hours filming the tower 1 guard. Pretty easy to catch a guard legitimately jumping to assist from zero. None of this was scripted. The edited some stuff out to save time or whatever, but it's pretty much what you see is what you get.