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Acapulco Mexico-1982: Woman On Boat Appears Sea Sick, Scuba Divers Underwater

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  • Year1982
  • Decade1980s
  • LocationAcapulco, Mexico
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1982 Acapulco Mexico

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Woman On Boat Appears Sea Sick, Scuba Divers Underwater — Clip Details

A woman with dark curly hair sits on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1982, wearing a dark t-shirt and shorts, appearing unwell as she holds her stomach. The footage, captured on vintage 8mm film, shows the boat moving across deep blue water under a bright sky, with a white curved railing and a chain visible. The scene transitions to two scuba divers swimming underwater, wearing masks and fins, creating bubbles in the dark blue sea. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color distortion, and a nostalgic, personal home movie aesthetic.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
121123440

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: No
  • Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel
Reel record not linked for this clip
Date
1982 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Acapulco, Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • scuba divers
  • sea sick
  • boat
  • woman
  • recreation
  • riding
  • private
  • sea
  • vessel
  • sick
  • scuba
  • dive
  • sports
  • acapulco mexico
  • 1982
  • 1982 vintage home movie
  • Acapulco Mexico 8mm film
  • woman sea sick on boat
  • scuba diving underwater
  • vintage Super 8 footage
  • 8mm film grain
  • 1980s home movie
  • boat ride 1982
  • sea sickness footage
  • underwater divers 1982
  • retro travel film
  • vintage 8mm color shift
  • 1980s vacation footage
  • personal home movie
  • archival 8mm footage
  • 1980s diving
  • vintage boat footage
  • nostalgic travel clip
  • 8mm film with grain

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
This 1982 Acapulco home-movie clip supports archive requests for early 1980s travel, boating, seasickness, and recreational scuba footage for documentary or period cutaway use.
Period detail
The dark casual clothing, small boat seating, visible rail, and saturated 8mm color may show a privately filmed early 1980s tourist outing off Acapulco.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has unstaged home-movie value in the seated woman’s apparent discomfort on the boat before the scene shifts to divers moving through the water.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a woman seated on a boat, dark blue sea, white curved rail, a chain or line near the water, two underwater scuba divers, fins, masks, and bubbles.
Film character
The clip carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing across both boat and underwater scenes.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief travel-memory insert, a transition from boat ride to scuba activity, or a cutaway illustrating the bodily reality of leisure tourism.
Historical context
The scene visually reflects private recreational travel in Acapulco, with boating and scuba activity presented from a personal vacation perspective rather than a staged tourism film.
Research note
People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to separate copyright assessment, while no logos, audible music, or private property are evident from the supplied frames.
Research search match
Relevant researcher searches include 1982 Acapulco 8mm boat footage, woman seasick on boat home movie, vintage scuba divers underwater, and Mexico vacation Super 8 sea footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1982 Acapulco travel footage, and then with boating, seasickness, scuba diving, or private vacation sea scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1982 Acapulco home-movie footage, a dark-haired woman sits on a boat with one leg crossed as the sea passes behind her.
Woman seated on a moving boat off Acapulco.
The woman remains seated on the boat in Acapulco, looking downward near a white curved rail with rippled sea in the background.
Seated passenger during a boat ride.
A dark-haired woman sits low on the boat, appearing uncomfortable as she holds her midsection while the blue sea and rail remain behind her.
Passenger appears uncomfortable on the boat.
Two scuba divers in masks and fins swim underwater in dark blue sea, leaving bubbles as they move through the frame.
Two scuba divers underwater.

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