Grunion Jonathan"). Sandra Tsing Loh, on her "Pianovisions" album has "Night of the Grunion", a jazz piano solo performed by her and a chamber orchestra at Malibu Beach in 1989. Zappa also asked the musical question "How's your grunion?" in his song "How's Your Bird?". Grunion feature at the beginning of the first episode of the 1970s documentary series "The Ascent of Man" written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. James Cameron's first directed film "" features these fish, despite the title of the film. Three episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies" (originally aired in 1971) were about an expected grunion run ("The
USS Grunion Maru". Her first torpedo ran low, but despite its magnetic pistol it failed to detonate. Two more bounced harmlessly off the "Kano Maru" without exploding. However, the remaining torpedo missed its target and circled back, striking the periscope supports on the submerged submarine without exploding. The damage the torpedo inflicted, combined with a jammed rear dive plane, triggered a sequence of events that caused the loss of depth control. The "Grunion" lunged below her maximum operational depth, and at about 1000 feet would have imploded. What remained of the ship struck the seabed, breaking off about 50 feet of her