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06/12/2005: "EL TORITO former uw research vessel"

Pictured recently at Port Douglas, North Queensland. Today with new owners she collects live reef fish for those who can aford to eat such luxuries in Asia.

The El Torito was a floating home and laboratory of Walter A Starck PhD the co- inventor of the revolutionary electrolung, a re-breather. The National Geographic Society helped pay for the boat.

We, Jerry Allen, Walter and I brought the ship from Madang, New Guinea to Cairns, stopping at Osprey Reef, (almost permanantly one late evening), and made a documentary film for television of the journey - Voyage to the Coral Sea one of the The Blue Frontier series.

www.screensound.gov.au may be able to make a VHS copy available for those interested.

Walter Starck has a DVD magazine available by subscription. Click golden dolphin VCD at the Offsite Links for a promo.