Marine, underwater photographs made by John Harding from his time as editor of FATHOM magazine (Australia).
AT Chesterfield Reef the small sharks got divers almost as excited as themselves
A dozen grey reef sharks were easily attracted to the boat for filming. (Ron Taylor photo)
Dewy Bergman was owner of USA's leading dive travel agency, JM Harding was a Sydney hotelier.
The famous dive boat on her second, and longest voyage to French Territories of the Pacific.
Powerhead explodes on grey reef shark
Also see alternative view of these FATHOM 6 postings. http://fathomoz.wordpress.com
Pictures from Long Reef area, northern Sydney beaches.
This was from an earlier edition, Fathom No. 4 – Philippe Cousteau was not impressed with an obvious error relating to a baby whale being harpooned and we guaranteed to have points like this double checked in future!
The information came from a reliable source – but it was wrong!
Our interview with Philippe while he was in Australia in 1971 for a few days was something of a coupe as he’d been refusing offers from SKIN DIVER magazine. Philippe claimed that magazine had a good cash flow but paid peanuts to writers and favored a select group of friends rather than allow new talent much of a chance. The magazine had a strong run for years then ceased production during the early 2000′s.
Philippe was killed when his PBY Catalina seaplane crashed in Portugal in 1976 due to a faulty nose wheel hatch being open. One of the large engines broke off the wing. (Information supplied by the late Paul Tzimoulis).
Text by Ron Taylor reprinted from his Sunday Telegraph newspaper column.
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