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27/04/2006: "500 Crown of Thorns"
A moment after this picture was taken, and caught on 16mm film, this entire collection of skewered starfish fell back into the sea when the rope snapped.
Another similar number of starfish were lifted aboard. They had been collected by Roy Muller (pictured) and deckhand Richard Weir seperately, using a single cylinder of air each at the reef near Mystery Cay (The Swain Reefs) in May 1974. Story follows below:
