A DOCUMENTARY FILM SCRIPT

PRODUCED BY
OCEAN SPIRIT PRODUCTIONS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
KARST PRODUCTIONS

Expedition Team Members (cast)

Billy "B.K." Kreutzmann
Darrell Reno
Tabb Vadon
Wes Skiles (narrator)
Jeffrey Haupt
Dan "Duffer" Malone
Captain Bill Belmont
Randy Waggoner



OCEAN SPIRIT


Introductions

Narrator:	The ocean -- a world as foreign as outer space.  Few 
people ever experience it  beneath the surface -- or the amazing 
life that lives within it.

Duffer:	Our philosophy of exploration for the benefit of the 
environment has been our guiding light, our teams goal on this 
expedition.

BK:	What I would love to show the audience is a true love of 
spirit for the ocean.  That would be great.  Show them Bill's feelings 
about the ocean.

Narrator:	This story is about a group of people bought together by 
their feelings for the ocean, and the remarkable journey they 
shared.

Darrell:	I want people to have a better awareness of our 
environment, specifically the ocean and how delicate it is.

Narrator:	For all of us the goal was to develop a new kind of 
relationship with the sea.

Tab:	I want to share with people the world my spirit lives in.  It's 
an incredible realm.

Narrator:	The heart of the experience was our interaction -- one 
on one -- with wild ocean creatures.

Jeffrey:	It's important to me that my work reflect the energies 
of this group and the experiences of this adventure and I want 
very much for any audience watching this film to experience what 
we experience.
	Those big guys kind of scare me.

Billy:	We haven't gotten too close to them yet.  Do you think we 
should try to get close to them.

Wes:	I want the audience to enjoy the experience.  Plain and 
simply I  want them to feel like they're there and that they 
understand what we are trying to achieve.

Narrator:	We hope to encourage a new way of thinking about the 
ocean and its creatures, and a relationship that is healthier for 
them and us.

Introducing - Bill Kreutzmann

Narrator:	Our journey began with this man, Bill Kreutzmann.  Now 
he's  an adventurer.  For three decades he has channeled his 
passion for adventure into his work as a drummer in a rock 'n' roll 
band.  The Grateful Dead.  This phenomenally successful band is 
first and foremost a partnership of kindred spirits -- a unique 
artistic collaboration that has defied fashion and succeeded on its 
own terms.

BK:	We were real tight.  We started out in Haight Ashbury.  We 
all lived in a giant house for awhile.  710 Ashbury.  And that was a 
gas.  We all shared everything from whatever to whatever.  And 
we played music and we got better and better.  We went through 
all kinds of life stuff.  We went through a lot of challenges.  And 
now here we are this many years latter as the Grateful Dead and 
we're all older and we're all doing separate things.  We get together 
we meet on stage and we play.  This to me is a new group like that.

Narrator:	Bill Kreutzmann has long had a dream: to experience 
and express the spirit of the ocean in his life and his music. 
Recently, he formed a new kind of team -- a group of adventures 
and fellow ocean spirits that, like his musical partners, would share 
his quest for a new relationship with the sea.
	It's Billy's dream to capture and express the ocean's spirit in 
his music and his life. 

Establishing Expedition Team   

Narrator:	That's me.  Wes Skiles.  I'm a filmmaker, who  came to 
know Billy Kreutzmann while showing him my backyard diving 
playground in North central Florida. 

Wes:	Your gonna be really surprised.  It opens up to gigantic 
beautiful rooms and water coursing through a labyrinth of 
passageway.  So do you want to go in the cavern and look at it?

BK:	Yeah.  It'd be fun to dive that.  It's amazing that that little 
open right there will let us go into such big areas.

Narrator:	It was here, deep within the underwater caverns of 
Florida, that we discovered our common passion for exploring the 
unknown.  Soon, Billy came to share with me and my film making 
partners Jeffrey Haupt and Dan Malone, his dream, to film a remote 
group of Pacific Islands.
	After diving I was delighted to see Billy and Jeff connect 
musically.

Jeffrey:	Drumming and the whole rhythm of music is the 
foundation that we all live by.  We tend to forget about it.  To play 
with Billy Kreutzmann and to be part of his adventure and to make 
a contribution is a great thrill.

Narrator:	In Mendocino California, we met up with a couple of 
Billy's surfing and diving partners.  Each have unique skills and 
insights that add to our team.  Tabb Vadon a marine naturalist, 
expert diver and leader of kayak expeditions in Northern California, 
and Darrell Reno, a craftsman, Tai Chi master and dive instructor.  
Both became friends with Billy not because of his fame or status as 
a musician, but through a shared love for the ocean.
 	With the team complete we established the goals of a journey 
that would take us 1600 miles South from San Francisco to the 
remote island of the Revillagigedo's.  

Duffer:	I think that if I could only do one thing on this trip.  I 
would really love to have shark encounters.  That would be the 
most important thing to me.  Whether they be white shark, 
hammerheads, whale sharks, tiger sharks, anything will do.  I just 
would love to be on a one on one situation with one of those types 
of sharks.

Darrell:	I want the audience to come away with a better 
connection to the ocean also.  And feel that there is something that 
they can do, no matter where they're living, that can help us keep 
this a cleaner place.  It's a very delicately balanced system that 
needs more attention than it's been getting.

Tab:	My biggest challenge in this is going to be to open myself and 
my world to anybody who wants to look at it.  I guess.  

Jeffrey:	I really want to swim with a manta.  To fly with a 
manta.  Not to touch it but to be with it and to feel it's fluidity.  The 
most fluid and sensual animals that I have ever witnessed.

BK:	I love the sound of whales, being a musician.  I just love the 
way they sing to each other and what it means to them.  I think 
that I could feel some of that.  If I could be in the water with those 
animals and feel and hear their song I know that I could soar.

Wes:	 I am going to film a journey about five different people with 
different goals and different challenges.  It's something that we 
can't predict how it's going to be or what's going to happen.

Departure - The Golden Gate Bridge

Narrator:	Sailing out beneath the Golden Gate Bridge we 
embarked upon a six week journey aboard the Argosy Venture, 
that would forever change our lives.  We departed sharing a 
common desire to embrace the marine environment and its 
creatures with open hearts and open minds.  
	Our first magical encounter occurred on the way to the 
Channel Islands.  For Tabb, it was a chance to reach out to the very 
creatures with which he felt such a kindred relationship.  Not 
simply to see them, but to physically be with them and touch them.  
To our amazement and delight, those dolphins responded with 
apparent approval, rolling over, looking up at Tabb, whistling, and 
playing all the time.  I couldn't help but feel that we had just found 
our perfect guides. 
	The dolphins lead us southward to the Channel Islands.  Over 
two hundred miles south of San Francisco and 30 miles off the coast 
of Santa Barbara.
	It was here we hoped to explore the beauty and secrets of a 
California kelp forest. 
	Just off Ana Capa island,  we found just such a forest in which 
to free dive.

Tabb - Free Diving off Ana Capa island

Tabb:	Scuba diving is a novelty, it's great, it's an adventure.  
It's like you get to be a spaceman for a little while, but I 'am not 
one of the creatures of the ocean.  I'm just something that's figured 
out a way to be there.  As a free diver I don't feel any limitations.  
I feel I'm there forever.  The world that I got to when I free dive is 
the best world that I know.  The constant pulse of breath that 
marks the passing of time on land is suspended in a breath hold 
dive.  Your life as an air breathing animal is left behind as you glide 
effortlessly down through the oceans blue tissues.  It absorbs you 
and you become one.  And as you return to the surface and make 
another dive it becomes a rhythmic meditation that slowly 
dissolves all your ties to your human reality.

Narrator:	Then, tragically, a terrible accident happened.  Tabb 
drowned free diving alone.  Apparently, he became too absorbed 
with his world, and took it too far.  We were devastated by Tabb's 
loss but also saddened that he ignored our need to dive as a team 
member and to stay together.  His desire for a solitary experience 
had cost him his life in an accident that should have never 
happened.
	Not at all sure of the fate of our trip, we  returned to the 
mainland to grieve with Tabb's family.  

BK:	He thought of himself as an ambassador of the ocean, of the 
critters of the ocean.  Not the other way around, not an ambassador 
of humans to the ocean beings, but himself as being an ocean being 
an being an ambassador to us.  And he's instilled that in me to 
watch that very carefully now when we're on dives and we go out.  
Now, I'm going to be looking for that energy.
	I hope we fulfill his mission.  You know.  I hope we get the 
feeling that we fulfilled his mission.  That what he wanted to 
convey we get to do it for him.  And how lucky we are to get to be 
the messengers for him.

Darrell:	Tabb left a very important part of himself with me.  In 
appreciating life, the sea, adventure, search for tomorrow.  He was 
a very spiritual man and it was really nice to see him open up and 
become happy on this boat.  And I really feel that his spirit is at 
peace and would want us to move on.  It was not easy to decide to 
move on, but it is necessary.

Narrator:	We did go on, searching for the perfect balance of true 
interaction with marine life, we wanted to swim freely with the 
creatures of the sea.

Ensenada, Mexico

	Arriving in Mexican waters we entered the port town of 
Ensenada, Mexico.  The sight of these multi-million dollar fishing 
fleet, and the knowledge that their activities represent only a 
fraction of the impact being felt world-wide, reminds us that a 
primary focus of this expedition must be to educate.
	For us the trip through the market represented a tantalizing, 
mouth watering view of a wonderful pot pourri of seafood.  The 
reality is, that the methods used to catch this seafood is taking a 
heavy toll on the delicate balance of life in the sea. 
	After Ensenada we headed southward, to the small islands of 
San Benito  40 miles off the Baja coast.  Here, Billy and Jeffrey went 
to shore to experience first hand encounters with elephant seals 
and sea lions. 

Billy with the elephant seal herd

Jeffrey:	I enjoy sharing my experiences with people and as a 
sound recordist and a photographer the greatest reward is to have 
an audience experience these things with me.

Narrator:	On land the northern elephant seal appears awkward 
and lethargic, in reality, they are some of the most impressive 
mammals on the planet. They can dive over 5000' deep and for 
more than thirty minutes for fish and squid.  

Jeffrey:	Hey, San Benito, elephant seal hunting.  Not hunting, 
we're just watching.  We're going to have fun though.

Narrator:	Not long ago, they were hunted almost to extinction.  
But international bans on seal hunting have allowed them make a 
strong comeback.  This proves -  as  a global community - when we 
make appropriate decisions, we can have a positive impact. 

Jeffrey:	B.K. is going to walk around and sneak up on them.  
Now, I don't think he's going to be sneaking up on anything.  But, if 
they don't see him.  He may be able to get close enough to be on 
camera.

Narrator: 	Billy is able to get close enough to experience the 
elephant seals without  disturbing the herd. 
	We celebrate this encounter as a good first step towards our 
goals of non-intrusive interactions.

Juvenile sea lion experience 

BK:	Let's see if our friends are here today.  We'll stop the motor.

Jeffrey:	Hey guys.  Hey.  In a minute there will be dozens of 
them together.  Big ole huge groups.  They all huddle together.  All 
there little heads pop up and they all look at you.  Then you go 
under water and they all disappear.  Then they all come right back 
up.  It's so cool.

Narrator:	The sea lion experience allowed us to get in the water 
and play out our roles as friends of the ocean community.  The 
juvenile California sea lions were the perfect companions.  They 
seemed genuinely happy to have this strange, and rather awkward 
company join them for some play. 

BK:	They give me my energy back is what they do.  It's great to 
be alive today.

The long journey 

Narrator:	After an all-too-short experience we move on towards 
the Revillagigedo Islands. 
	Captain Belmont and the crew maintain a 24 hour watch, 
keeping an eye on our course and the constant storms forming in 
the North Pacific.

Duffer:	Well, it's a perfect time to hang out, and read, have a 
beer, enjoy the sun.

Narrator:	Our journey so far has taken us over 800 miles, yet we 
still have another 550 miles to go.  On this leg of the journey we 
will leave the relative comfort of the coastline and head out into 
open ocean. 
	We seem to be suspended in time as we travel for days on 
end towards our ultimate goal.  I think at this point we all began to 
fear that we wouldn't be given ample time to be with the creatures 
we so desperately want to see.

Boat breakdown

	Isolated, three hundred miles off the tip of Mexico's Baja 
peninsula and equally as far from our destination, we suddenly lost 
steering control of the Argosy Venture.

Jeffrey:	The captain says we've got a broken cable randy.

Randy:	OK.  I'll get the tiller out.

BK:	I was starting to experience a little fear out here until I saw 
the hand held tiller come out.  It's really hard to get where your 
going if you can't steer.

Narrator:	A thousand miles into our journey, the last thing we 
needed was a broken steering cable.  This setback posed the very 
real possibility that we may have to turn away from the islands 
and head back to the Baja coast.

Captain Belmont:	It's connected to that.

Randy:	What is that?  

Jeffrey:	If you take it off it won't be.

Randy:	The steering shaft drives that thing.

Jeffrey:	It won't be connected to anything if you take it off.

Belmont:	OK.  So we have to figure out a way to attach something 
to this piece of cable hear that can wrap around there at the end.

Jeffrey:	Right.

Narrator:	It is agreed that we can fix the steering, if we borrow 
part of the main sail halyard and re-thread into the gear system.  

Wes:	It's in there.  You can see the cable is a little bit smaller but 
we hope it's going to work.  That's it.  All rite.

Belmont:	How does it look down there?

Randy:	It looks fine.

Narrator:	After hours of painful, hot, work beneath the decks in 
rolling seas we managed to fix the cable well enough to get the 
captains approval to carry on. 
	Our endless travel in open seas has carried us over 400 miles  
The sense that we are never going to get there starts to give way 
has we near the remote island group.
	 At last, we finally sighted the island of San Benedicto the 
northern-most island of the Revillagigedo group.  It is here, via a 
special permit from the Mexican government, that we plan explore 
and film the islands and their underwater inhabitants.
	The hardship and boredom of the long journey now seemed 
insignificant.  Certainly there could be no more beautiful site than 
the Argosy Venture at the base of a volcano that formed part of 
this incredible island in 1952. 

Exploring San Benedicto island

	Unstoppable is the word that best described the team's desire 
to get started with the actual experience of exploring the island of 
San Benedicto. 

Wes:	OK are you guys ready?

Darrell:	Yeah!  Let's get this show on the road.

Jeffrey:	After a day on the deep blue sea.  There ain't no place 
that I'd rather be.

Narrator:	Our plan is to systematically circumnavigate the island 
in hope of encountering large pelagic marine creatures. 
	We entered a world that no words can describe.  Its simply a 
feeling that you're out there on the edge of a unexplored world.
	Not able to stay out of the water the team picked an area that 
looked good for exploring. 
	We discovered a wondrous world seldom seen by divers.  
Without the noise caused by the bubbles of conventional diving 
equipment the team glided quietly among the myriad of life within 
the sea. 
	Our choice to approach the environment by free diving was 
rewarded by the curious behavior of this ahi jack.

Flying with Giant Manta Rays 

	Out of the blue appeared an enormous shape, the fabled giant 
manta ray.  Diving down Billy reached out to make contact.  As if 
the manta sensed Billy was of no threat, it slowed its graceful 
motion and rolled over exposing its underside.  Billy placed his 
hand gently upon its belly. The slipstream created by this gentle 
creature pulled Billy on an exhilarating ride which ended all to 
soon.  Below, the manta caught my attention.  Aware that his new 
friend was no longer with him the giant manta  gracefully laid 
back, peering upward towards the surface, as if to say to Billy.  
Where did you go?  Why did you leave?  Are you a friend?  Did you 
have something to share? 
	This magnificent display of curiosity continued for almost a 
minute.  Finally the manta seemed to acknowledge that for then, 
the visit was over. 
	Returning to the depths Billy discovered his new friend had 
disappeared.  Peering into the void, he had to wonder if that kind 
of experience would ever happen again.
	Continuing to work our way around the island we discovered 
one of the most wonderful phenomena ever witnessed, a group of 
mantas flying in formation along the flotsam line formed by 
colliding currents.  The manta rays, are harmless members of the 
shark family.  They had gathered here to feed on micro-organisms.
 
BK:	It was a total experience.  I completely got out of myself.  I 
got completely out of the thing of needing to ride a manta.  And 
just to be in the experience of it.  And then for the most joyest trip 
the very last one was right on the surface and it just bubbled up 
underneath me.  Really calm and cool it let me lay on it's back and 
it just took me for a complete surfaces ride.  It was great today.

Duffer:	Talk about interacting with nature and just watching 
these agile creatures cruise through the water.  Man, I was really 
envious.

Wes:	I was really slow to touch 'em.  I finally reached down this 
one time and decided to give it a little scratch.  I actually started 
scratching and I could feel it react and say woah this feels good.  I 
stopped for a second and the whole manta just stopped dead in the 
water.  I scratched it again and I felt it go yeah.  And I realized at 
that point this scratching sensation they really liked.  And it was a 
real experience for me to realize oh yeah that one way of having an 
interaction with these creatures is do something they dig.

Jeffrey:	My whole life I have dreamed about swimming with 
mantas and today I lived my dreams.  It was the greatest 
experience of my life.  It's just so rewarding to be able to live what 
you've dreamed about.  Since I was ten years old I've dreamed 
about doing this.  And I did it today.

Darrell:	These are organic spaceships they're not just entities in 
the sea.  These are graceful beings and they have a special place.

Narrator:	Unable to resist the temptation to film the summit of 
Benedicto Jeffrey and I hatched a plan to go ashore.
	San Benedicto a volcanic island which erupted most recently 
in 1952, rises abruptly ten thousand feet above the ocean floor.
	
Journey to the Shore - Wes and Jeff at the ash mountain

Jeffrey:	All rite, look at this.

Wes:	I can't believe it.  So, we've been looking at this thing from 
the boat now for days now saying we've got to climb this thing.  I 
mean it's so beautiful.  It looks like its got all these perfect routes.  
But, come on over here and check this out.

Jeffrey:	It's ash.  I mean ash literally.  It has this little tiny crust 
on the outside and you touch it.  Look at this.  It's lighter than air.  
We would have never made it up there.  Would we have made it up 
there?

Wes:	No.  We would have never made it up there.  Don't try 
climbing an ash mountain.

Jeffrey:	Look at this.  This is rock.  It's pumice rock.  I don't 
believe it.  It's lighter, it's like air.  You step right though it.  I 
thought I was walking on solid ground.  I can't imagine it.

Wes:	This is the stuff that people like to rub their skin with.  Right?

Jeffrey:	Yeah, you can use it for manicures.

Wes:	Hey, look down there Jeff.  There are the camera guys.

Jeffrey:	Yeah, but look at this, the lava spewed out of this 
mountain and formed this huge delta.  Wow, so we've been 
anchored next to this delta, this huge lava flow and we decided to 
walk down here.  It's just unbelievable.  It's such a contrast to the 
rest of the island.  You have this ash mountain, this caldera.  Then 
you have this lava flow that's stacked up hear.  Then you have the 
wonderful, beautiful rocks in red and orange and green.  This is just 
the complete island of contrast.  Then in the sea you have the 
beautiful mantas and the pelagic and the outrageous fish.  This 
island is just so spectacular.  This is all new.  This actually blew out 
of the earth in 1952.  And you can actually see it in the water.  The 
rocks underwater have coral which is new and on the other side of 
the island where the old caldera is the coral is lush.  This island just 
has it all.  It's fantastic.

Departure from San Benedicto 

Narrator:	Our time on Benedicto was way too short.  We left 
having made new friends we would never forget.  We now headed 
south to the island of Socorro. 

Duffer:	We've got to be about twelve mile?

BK:	Sixteen.

Jeffrey:	Let me check the radar.

Duffer:	Sixteen?

Jeffrey:	2, 4, 6, 8.  4, 8, 12.  It's about sixteen miles.

Duffer:	The captain doesn't know what to make of this.  This 
fiasco on his bridge.  It's kind of being taken over by the film crew.  
I don't know if that's acceptable on the Argosy Venture.

Socorro Island

Narrator:	As the sun set we all wondered what awaited us on this 
mysterious island.
	With an elevation of over 3200 feet, Isla Socorro is big 
enough to create its own weather. 
	We traveled down the coast exploring breathtaking coves, 
caves, bays, and lagoons.  Older, more green and alive than 
Benedicto, Socorro is the epitome of a deserted island fantasy. 
	The water here is by far the clearest ocean water we had 
ever seen.  Just free diving to the depths of the boulder strewn 
bottom was interesting because the water is so clear.  With so much 
to see and do we began to act like a pod of starved orcas.  Racing 
around checking everything out. 
	As we continued to explore new places we began to notice 
that our approach as curious creatures of the sea was allowing us to 
engage our surroundings at a more sensitive level.  We were 
beginning to see with eyes from the sea that each new life form, 
each hidden cove, cave and reef are part of a much bigger and 
more important picture.  These splendid realms beneath the sea 
exist as a communities, with families much like our own.  
Unfortunately, we've discovered thus far humanity seems mostly 
unwilling to acknowledge this important fact.  
	Leaving behind the human characteristic of setting pre-
conceived expectations we were able to fully appreciate each new 
encounter.  
	Working our way around the island we discovered a series of 
natural pools, aquariums which contained magnificent microcosms 
of life. 

The Aquarium

Darrell:	There's one energy that controls the rhythm of the 
entire universe.  Being active with the ocean helps me connect with 
that rhythm. 
	This is a magical, mystical place.  A private ecological garden 
set aside.  There's this wall and it has about eight inch of water, 
white water.  Were it slams you over this wall and pops you out 
into this aquarium.  But, you don't know what's on the other side 
yet because your still in the white water.  When it all clears up the 
water is as clear as the air.  And there is this pristine aquarium 
ready for you to enjoy.  You can really relate to the ecosystem in 
this area.  It was very special.  The creatures don't recognize you as 
something to fear so they don't shun you.  There's fish in there that 
look like God pulled them out and painted them and put them back 
for us to enjoy.
	This place is proof that there's a God because this type of 
thing doesn't happen by chance.

Hammerhead Sharks

Narrator:	Passing a point on the east side of the island we 
discovered an uprising of deep oceanic water.  The collision of cold 
water and tropical water created a powerful current that attracted 
large schools of pelagic life forms. 
	From the distance Duffer's dream forms into reality.  A school 
of scalloped hammerhead sharks.  Big ones too.

 Duffer:	The great part about this whole encounter was there 
was no blood, there was no chumming the sharks or anything like 
that.  You were just interacting with them.  It was really cool.  It 
was a great encounter one on one.  They were just cruising by you 
and they'd look at you and they'd kind of swim around you and 
your looking at them and it was really like hitting them straight on.  
It was really great.  
	That's Jeffrey Haupt right there.

Jeffrey:	Hey.  We had a great dive at cabo Pierce.  The 
Revillagigedos.  It's time to go, but we sure passed a bon temp.

Sperm Whales

Narrator:	During our travel homeward, we spotted a series of 
white misted spouts.  
	Moving closer we identified a pod of sperm whales.  At first it 
appeared to be only a few whales, but then the numbers began to 
grow as whales continue to surface from their deep dives.  
	The Sperm whale which grows up to sixty five in length and 
sixty five tons, is certainly the mightiest whale of the ocean.  
	We had no idea how this giant pod of sperm whales would 
react to our presence.  
	From the distance huge shapes form in front of our vision.
	Unlike most whales that feed on plankton and krill the sperm 
whale is the largest carnivorous toothed whale on the planet.  They 
dive to depths up to 5000' for over an hour, where they battle with 
giant squids, some which reach up to 40' in length! 
	We were awed at the powerful sense of awareness that these 
massive leviathans displayed at our presence.  You could actually 
feel their sonar pulses resonate through your body, and at times 
they would  look directly at us.  It was truly a life changing 
experience.  
	We also felt privileged to be with another species that has 
successfully returned from near extinction.  This reality gives us 
hope for future issues that face our planets oceans.

Conservation Message

Duffer:	As beautiful as this is there are people in the world who 
are trying to wipe it out and they're taking away from this whole 
thing.  

Narrator:	Unbelievably, we came to learn that commercial fishing 
vessels had come to Isla San Benedicto and netted and harpooned 
many of the same manta's we had come to know and love.  

Duffer:	It's absolutely not fair that man treats the ocean like 
this.  These places are fantastic and they're out in the middle of 
nowhere and you think God its got the best sea life in the world 
and its so plentiful.  But yet, man has gotten to this area and its 
been fished and as you take away the sharks your taking the 
predators away and little by little everything dies off.  It's such a 
sad story.

BK:	We're hurting the fisheries right now so much by the type of 
fishing we're doing.  The purse seining and killing the dolphins.

Wes:	Fish, the kind like snappers and groupers they have millions 
of eggs but sharks have one, two babies maybe once, twice every 
two or three years.  There were twenty thousand pounds of shark 
fins, not sharks, shark fins, taken from those islands.
	This film can make people realize that we have to watch what 
we're doing and the next time your at a grocery store don't get 
shark.

Narrator:	We have learned through examples like the elephant 
seals and sperm whales that humans can play the essential roll in 
helping maintaining ocean species.  Our team hopes is that by 
experiencing this journey with us, that you too have come to share 
our love, and fascination with the creatures of our sea.  Remember, 
your awareness of the oceans environment can play an important 
role in protecting it. 

Darrell:	We need to make a connection with the sea.  We have to 
stop raping it.  We have to find harmony with the sea.

BK:	For myself I want to share with the audience the love I have 
for the creatures that we got to be with.  And more importantly 
how we could interact with them and not have to feed them or 
scum them or drag on them.  That we could ride mantas real calmly 
and peacefully.  

Narrator:	There can be no better way to sum up the inspiration 
and  we all received from our experience than to see our friend 
Billy back home, in control of the beat that is the Grateful Dead.  His 
fellow band members and fans agree that Billy's spirit and sense of 
rhythm have never been better.  From new music acknowledging 
our responsibility as the human race, to supporting of 
environmental groups and causes, Bill Kreutzmann and the Grateful 
Dead were directly influenced by a journey that transcended  
boundaries we never realized existed.

The End



Executive Producer
William Kreutzmann

Produced by
Jeffrey E. Haupt / Wes Skiles

Written and Directed by
Wes Skiles

Editor
Hamilton Hall

Photography
Wes Skiles
Jeffrey E. Haupt
Billy Kreutzmann
Dan Malone

Audio Recordist
Jeffrey E. Haupt

Camera Assistant
Darrell Reno

Grip
Dan Malone
Tabb Vadon

On Line Editor
Mike Dennis

Additional Editing
Todd Richard

Assistant Editors
Alex Hauser
Sean McLean
Ali Laventhol

Graphics
David Cheung

Title Graphic
Sarah Powell

Post Technician 
Steve "Henry" Maggioncalda

Script Advisor
Gary Lambert
Rush De Nooyer

Additional Photography
Bruce Mate
Paul Lebougeois
Leslie Avery Gould
Bernard J. Brennan V
Sea Watch

Original Music Score by
William Kreutzmann
Bob Bralove
Jeffrey E. Haupt
The Grateful Dead

Additional Musicians
Bobby Strickland
Marc van Wageningen

Club Front
Audio Engineers
John Cutler
Jeffrey Norman

National Sound
Post Audio Mix
Troy Krueger

Sponsors
Body Glove
Tiffen Filters
Amphibico
Benthos 
Countryman 
Lectrosonics
Anton Bauer
Lowell Lighting
K&H Ind. / Porta Brace

Special Assistance Provided By
Maria Finitzo
Terri Skiles
Nathan & Tessa Skiles
Peter Butt
Ruby Haupt
Justin Kreutzmann
Bill Walton
Doc White
Meikle Syme Hall
William Abbott
Whale Conservation Institute
Iain Kerr
Kim Marshal
Kit Rogers
Daniel Palacios
Bernard Brennan
David Day
Bob Wallace
Bruce Mate
Marine Mammal Fund
Stan Manasian
DAN  Diver Alert Network
Garbage Collection
Teva
Stohlquist
Adventure 1st Aid
Beuchat
Bula
Ocean Kayaks
Mike Maury
Ambar III
John Riffe
SeaWatch
Mike McGettigan
Sherry Schaffer
Terry & Joyce Kennedy
Real Time Video
National Sound
Holiday Charters

Invaluable Assistance Provided by
Bill Belmont

Lic. Guillermo Wilkins Chapoy
Lic. Jaime Ruiz Avila

For permits and assistance in the Revillagigedo Islands

Vice Admiral Alejandro Maldonado Mendoza
Chief of Staff (Jefe Del Estado Mayor)
Office of the Secretary of the Navy

Members of the Revillagigedo Garrison, 14th Mexican Naval District

Argosy Venture Crew
Captain / Advisor
Bill Belmont
First Mate / Engineer
Randy Waggoner
Mate / Still Photography
Michael Shultz
Expedition Cook
Anna Sanders
Electrician
Alan Gross Jr.

This film is dedicated to the loving memory of
Tabb Vadon
and
Marjorie Bank

Produced by
Ocean Spirit Productions
In Association With
Karst Productions

Billy "B.K." Kreutzmann
Expedition Leader

Wes Skiles
Director / Cameraman

Jeffrey Haupt
Audio Recordist / Cameraman

Dan "Duffer" Malone
Ocean Explorer

Darrell Reno
Dive Master

Tabb Vadon
Marine Naturalist


Ocean Spirit 
Music Cue Sheet
final 11/23/94


Start Time	End Time	Duration	Cue	Song

01:00:00:	01:01:50:	01:50	Intro/Tease	Ocean Spirit Theme
01:01:50:	01:02:29:	00:40	Rhythm Devils	GD Live at Shoreline	`
01:02:41:	01:03:55:	01:13	B.K.'s new team	Before the dawn	^
01:03:55:	01:04:21:	01:16	Florida spring	Spring Dive
01:03:10:	01:03:53:	00:43	B.K./J.H. explore	Over the Edge	^
01:03:54:	01:09:07:	05:08	Mendocino	Mendocino/GGB
01:09:07:	01:11:24:	02:17	Tabb free diving	B.K. Water phone
01:12:41:	01:13:16:	00:35	We did go on...	Ruby's Tune 	^
01:16:46:	01:18:31:	02:44	Sea lions	Sea Lion Rock	
01:18:43:	01:22:52:	05:19	Journey	Journey
01:23:57:	01:24:58:	01:01	We discovered	Wondrous world
01:24:58:	01:27:04:	02:02	B.K.'s manta ride	Manta Theme
01:27:07:	01:30:39:	03:32	Continuing @ island	Ruby's Tune	^
01:33:09:	01:34:39:	01:48	Our time was short	Before the Dawn	^
01:34:39:	01:36:50:	02:11	The water is clear	Mysterious water
01:36:50:	01:37:50	01:00	The water's as clear	Reflections	^
01:38:01:	01:39:48:	01:49	Passing a point	Hammerhead
01:39:56: 	01:43:11:	03:07	During our travel	Sperm whales
01:43:18:	01:44:34:	01:16	Unbelievably	Crying mantas
01:44:42:	01:45:38:	00:56	We have learned	Ruby's Tune	^
01:45:38:	01:46:28:	00:50	Peacefully	Jack Straw	*
01:46:28:	01:47:40:	01:12	Credit roll	Ocean Spirit Theme 			
The End

`	Written by Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart live 1994 Mountainview, CA
^	Written by Jeffrey E. Haupt Copyright 1994 Haupt2it Music Publishing Co - BMI
*	Music by Bob Weir, words by Robert Hunter Copyright 1972 Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. - ASCAP
All other songs written by Bob Bralove and Bill Kreutzmann Copyright 1994 Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. - ASCAP
  
Copyright 1994 Ocean Spirit Productions and Karst Productions, All Rights Reserved.