Rocks beneath the sea may hold the oil and gas necessary to sustain future generations. That is the message of “Deep Sea Endeavour,” a 1960s color film by the Shell Oil Company. The only way to determine if oil exists in commercial quantity is by drilling (mark 02:49), as we look at drilling platforms at sea. The narrator explains that the platforms are fastened to the seafloor and we visit one structure positioned off the coast of Spain at mark 03:43. At mark 04:30 we see another offshore structure in the North Sea off the Shetland Islands, this one designed to float on the water’s surface and towed from one location to the next. The follows crews at work before moving to another platform off the coast of Japan (mark 06:11) and additional drilling scenes. In some parts of the ocean, oil may lie more than 6,000 deep, and starting at mark 11:07 it is shown how crews test various pieces of equipment before taking them out to sea. Other times, ships are the only means of establishing a drilling platform, a point that is discussed beginning at mark 15:00 and we watch as a drilling ship heads to sea, equipped with everything from breakfast eggs to heavy machinery. The film continues with more footage of life on the ship and the jobs crews must undertake as they search for oil under the waves. “One day we may be able to replace (oil) with energy from the atom or from the sun itself,” says the narrator at mark 24:40, “but that day is not yet.”
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