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03/12/2005: "BRUNO professional abalone diver."

A body builder and champion spear fisherman credited as having introduced Valerie Heighes to the St George spearfishing club where she was to later meet her future husband, Ron Taylor.

Bruno (whose real name was Brian McKenna) was a millionaire abalone diver of the Victorian town, Mallacoota.

Bruno (few people used his real name) passed away some 25 years ago with a serious weight-depleting condition that was so unfair for a person who took pride in his physique.

Although he often threatened to kill a popular magazine adventure writer, he secretly admired the attention he received following that famous PIX article featuring himself alongside the writer aboard his fast abalone boat, "looking for smugglers"!