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LEGENDS OF THE UNDER SEA

JH — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:56:21 +0000

Double click picture

A larger and similar picture is at http://fathomoz.wordpress.com

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

AUSTRALIA’S BEST SHARK PICTURES (of 1971)

JH — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:05:44 +0000

Sydney Harbour – Port Jackson (1969) – Picture from movie film later inspired construction of a shark proof swimming enclosure. Camp Cove is an exclusive and popular beach inside the southern entrance to Port Jackson, commonly called Sydney Harbour.

The Late Henri Bource (on crutches) had his leg bitten off by a white pointer shark while diving in Victoria. Raymond Short was swimming when a recently mated white pointer latched onto his leg.

: Photo’s by John Harding (1969)

Grey Nurse from Flat Rock (June 1968)

Rodney Fox with large whaler 1966. (Note: Same shark may appear with different people).

The Late Henri Bource - shark victim who became shark film maker with his "Savage Shadows".

Using self-hypnosis Henri Bource convinced himself – and many close friends – he was not handicapped. One friend criticized him for parking in a ‘disabled persons’ parking place! With an artificial leg, from the knee joint down, he walked with a stiff ankle. Soon after his ‘accident’ (he never used the term shark attack) he considered joining the Australian army – as a commando. So powerful is hypnosis.

North Stradbroke Island (8 August 1965)

WHITE POINTER SHARK also called GREAT WHITE SHARK. First pictures 1965

JH — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:02:02 +0000

The first film footage was taken simultaneously by Ron Taylor (on the surface) and Henri Bource (filming from an anti shark cage below). Ron Taylor's film featured this stunning images. Henri was further away but at least it shows the action from another angle. Henri's is included in his documentary "Savage Shadows" (1966) Ron Taylor's stills from the 16mm movie are today among the most published shark pictures of all. The pictures appeared first in Everybody's Magazine, 27 September 1967 (The Trail of the White Pointer). This was the first popular magazine story to focus on a particular species of shark. Before this, all sharks were simply "sharks". In 1977 following "Jaws fever" Wally Gibbins was to be paid US$1 M if he killed a captive white pointer shark on a pay TV channel. Wally was Australia's most creditable shark hunter. His 11 foot 1" tiger shark (1963) was the largest taken underwater by a diver in Australia.