One of the most surreal, fantasy adventures ever filmed, The Mermaids of Tiburon, is an enchanting tale of beautiful mermaids and lost treasure. Dr Samuel Jamison (George Rowe) is a marine biologist at an aquatic theme park who learns of an underwater treasure trove of flame pearls from an elderly gentleman, Ernst Steinhauer (John Mylong). Steinhauer shows Jamison some incredible colour-changing sea jewels which he discovered during a visit to the island of Tiburon. But after inviting Jamison to accompany him on a treasure hunt, Steinhauer is discovered missing and his house ransacked. Desperate to find Steinhauer and the sea treasure, Jamison charters a boat to Tiburon, unaware that a vicious gangster Milo (Timothy Carey) is also charting a course to Tiburon with Steinhauers treasure map. But what neither man knows is that the pearls are guarded by a handful of alluring and mysterious beautiful mermaids, led by the perfectly formed nude pin-up model, Diane Webber. The Mermaids of Tiburon was produced and directed in 1962 as a fantasy-adventure by noted underwater cinematographer John Lamb. Two years later, he re-edited the film with close-ups of the mermaids revealing these siren-like enchantresses in the nude to add the finishing touch to this beautifully photographed fantasy that was filmed in La Pez, the pearl garden of Mexico, and the kelp forest along Santa Catalina s coast.