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LEGENDS OF THE UNDER SEA

JH — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:56:21 +0000

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Walter A.Starck, Vic Ley, Ron Taylor, Phil Eather, Richard Weir, Wally Gibbins, Mal McLeod, Gai Girdlestone, John Harding

Wally Muller, Van Laman, Ben Cropp, Kathy Troutt, Lynn Roberts, John Michael Harding, Bob Grounds, Dean Cropp, Ron Taylor, Trevor Collins (with marlin), Valerie May Taylor, Henri Bource, Wally Gibbins-John Sumner-Terry Morrison,

The Late IRVIN ROCKMAN CBE

MANTA RAY

JH — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:50:07 +0000

Our friend Ron Isbell took us to the northern side of Lady Musgrave Island. Perfect conditions but with a lot of dead plankton or coral spawn on the surface. It must be good food for manta rays. There was a line of them swimming in rotation over perhaps one kilometer there and back.

How many? A dozen – maybe as many as twenty.

What makes a good underwater model? Christine Danaher is one of the best. A diminutive figure is a good start although some scuba tanks can appear huge. We have an extensive collection of Christine D. pictures and some excellent underwater 16mm film footage.

A loving attitude toward animals, especially underwater is another good point. This helps to eliminate – or will eliminate fear.

A disposition that accepts certain discomforts – wet hair, cold water, rough sea and all the rest requires a tough girl.

The new additions to the world of underwater modeling are breath-hold free divers. Nadine Werner (Germany) for example is reported to hold her breath while swimming/diving for a remarkable four minutes.

There is a stunning blonde Russian actress, still in her twenties who set a world depth record for free diving some years ago. Check You Tube videos under “mermaids” for a host of lovelies with good lungs.

My mistake, this looks like Christine Danaher but is one of the pictures by our good friend (the late) Irvin Rockman, taken in New Guinea, featuring model Kirtley Leigh Paine. I should have spotted the difference with her wet suit. It’s a fine picture – but not mine!! The following picture is:

MATING GREEN TURTLES PHOTOGRAPHED UNDERWATER (1988)

JH — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:21:26 +0000

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OSPREY REEF, NORTH HORN SPECTACULAR

JH — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:35:58 +0000

A beautiful location in The Coral Sea. Below the vertical drop-off is a few thousand meters of depth. Live coral near the surface. A big shark fifty meters below not bothering us at all. Schooling hammerheads have been seen here. Sadly it is not an easy location to visit. At time of writing (September 2009) no charter boats were servicing this reef. We went there aboard Coralita, the famous charter boat which was sunk by a mystery explosion in 1992. A few years later the captain and owner, our good friend Albie Ziebell passed away. That's the way it goes. One day Osprey Reef will be back on the agenda. North Horn is on the northern tip of this large reef. These pictures on the western side, 1km south. The shark feeding station is on the very tip of North Horn.

LES FEMMES UNDERWATER (1972) THE SCUBA GIRLS

JH — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:41:09 +0000

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Juanita Fenn is the daughter of professional diver, John Fenn of Tweed Heads, NSW.