The TV Zone

We should all be so lucky to have the life of one Al Giddings - acclaimed underwater photographer who has lived the life of a thousand, a million people. Not only has he spent much of that underwater producing some of the most spectacular marine photography in history, but much above, too, consorting with movie stars like Jacqueline Bisset. His career stretches back thirty (at least) years when he was on the second unit for films like "The Deep," and since then has produced an extraordinary body of work, including a not-to-be-forgotten "Living Edens" episode on Palau some years ago.

So if you've got a few minutes tonight, check out WLIW/21's "Under the Sea with Al Giddings;" it's a nice look at this extraordinary guy (hosted by Ch. 21 boss, Terrel Cass). There's a lot of eye candy here - pix of "black smokers," those incipient underwater volcanoes, and the Titanic, and whales, whales, whales - a Giddings specialty. (Above? That's one of Al's breaching humpbacks...)