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In the film's most unforgettable sequence, Bond (Connery) awakened to the sound of a girl's voice singing "Underneath the Mango Tree." On the Crab Key beach rising Venus-like from the water with giant seashells that she was poaching, Bond had his first view of Honey Ryder, an innocent, voluptuous native island girl/diver wearing a sexy, white bikini and hunting knife. Honey asked: "What are you doing here? Looking for shells?" Bond (glibly) replied: "No, I'm just looking." [Note: In the original Ian Fleming 1958 novel, Honeychile emerged from the water naked.] She explained how she didn't go to school, but resourcefully learned everything as a child by reading a set of encyclopedias ("I started at A when I was eight, now I've reached T. I bet I know a lot more things than you do!"). When she was taken captive with Bond by Dr. No, they both had to take decontamination showers. By film's end, Bond rescued her from drowning and they escaped Crab Key in one of Dr. No's boats - conveniently running out of gas.
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