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07/12/2005: "MERV COX"

One of the pioneer spear fisherman and divers from Queensland's Tropic of Capricorn area.

Assisted Ron and Valerie Taylor and Ben Cropp during their early visits to the southern GBR by introducing them to Captain Wally Muller, who was then a commercial line fisherman working the Swain Reefs.

With friends Ron Zangari and Mike Prior assisted JAWS author Peter Benchley in his quest to dive with sharks for the first time in 1975.