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12/08/2005: "KATHY TROUTT"

Holder of the deepest dive by a woman on scuba (Guinness Book of Records) when she was just seventeen years of age.

Pictured here about two years later, with tea token coins collected from the Dunbar shipwreck site near the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

The Dunbar was bringing immigrants from England - her lengthy voyage ended at her destination. Only one person survived the wreck, 121 didn't.

The wreck site is just south of The Gap at Sydney's entrance to it's harbour. The wreck is protected but after 148 years there is not much left amongst the rubble. Human bones were found under boulders 'recently' but were washed away by the surge before proper recording's could be made.

Kathy Troutt's first film appearances were in Ben Cropp documentaries, Mermaids in Paradise and others. Later she made appearances in Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo (TV series) with one episode called Marine Biologist written for her.

Overseas work in Hollywood films relating to the ocean followed her success in the UK in a live dolphin 'pantomine' show. Day of the Dolphin with George C. Scott and Blue Lagoon, with Brooke Shields - filmed in Fiji. Ron Taylor doing the UW filming.

Kathy was married to a film cameraman - director, and now lives on the Gold Coast.