Nemo 100 Mini Sub Debuts at boot duesseldorf 2009 (Article + Video)

(DUESSELDORF, GERMANY)

New at boot duesseldorf this year is the Nemo 100 - a two-man mini-submarine that enables people to submerge without a license. The Nemo 100 has already won awards and attracted worldwide interest. And, At a cost of
about 180,000 Euros ($240,000 USD), it's a real bargain compared to other submersibles.

boot duesseldorf is the largest and most international boat show in Europe with 1,650 exhibitors from 56 countries filling 220,000 square meters of exhibition space in 17 gigantic halls.

Liquid Fame Surfing Documentary (Video)

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Liquid Fame is an award winning surfing documentary on the first U.S. Opens Surfing Championship held at Huntington Beach, California. The show features interviews with popular local surfing pros and an exclusive interview with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman - The original Gidget!

Kathy is the real life inspiration for the fictional character of Franzie (nicknamed Gidget) from the 1957 novel, Gidget: the LITTLE girl with BIG ideas, written by her father Frederick Kohner. The book sold over 500,000 copies and in 1959 Columbia Pictures, where Frederick Kohner had been a screen writer, adapted the novel into a film. Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies. As Kathy says, "Nobody knows I'm a real person -- they think 'Gidget' is Sandra Dee or Sally Field."

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Vicious Squid Invade Northern California

HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Something mysterious has been stirring in the deep waters off northern California. Fishermen have been reporting bizare sitings ... of fiendish alien creatures, packs of canabalistic invaders... This is a documentary on the invasion of the ferocious Jumbo Squid