Hans Hass obituary

[gentle lemur]

Hans Hass died a few days ago at the age of 94.
I saw this obituary in the Daily Torygraph yesterday Hans Hass - Telegraph

For British people of my age, Hans Hass was the first person to show us coral reefs and other underwater wonders in the black and white films he made for TV in the late 1950s and '60s. I didn't see his earliest work, but I do remember the films of his expeditions on the Xarifa. I aspired to be like him, sailing round the world on a wonderful schooner with scientists like Eibl-Eibesfelt, and a gorgeous blonde wife like Lotte Hass too
Unfortunately these dreams came to nothing, because I fell at the first hurdle - the Guinea Gap swimming baths at Egremont were a much less attractive environment for a novice swimmer than a coral reef. However Hans and Lotte Hass, like Armand and Michaela Denis, opened my eyes to world of wildlife as much as the other TV pioneers, Peter Scott, David Attenborough and Desmond Morris.

Alan

 

[vogelcommando]

Sad news indeed, I saw it on German Television ! Here in the Netherlands he never reached the popularity of Jacques Cousteau but Me to loved his work ! Have also some books by him. He will be remembered as one of the great pioneers of the oceans !

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

My first compendium wildlife guide was by Hans Hass.
R.I.P. to a leading light.

 

[Tim Brown]

I too had almost forgotten Hans Hass..in some ways im surprised he was around until this year. Alan...you mention television pioneers but the true originator is now almost forgotten in the shape of Gerald Iles and a TELEVISION series called "At Home In Zoo" filmed largely in the presenters home in the zoo![Belle Vue of course]. His radio show is better know[my mother remembers it] but few people had a TV at that time[early fifties] so the programme is forgotten...a forthcoming BBC programme on the history of UK zoos in the Timewatch series may even show some of it[which ive been fortunate enough to view].