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15/06/2006: "MARLIN ........a spear fishing dream"

Trev Collins and his black marlin, taken from the sea using an original CO2 powered Sea Hornet speargun, while visiting The Group at Point Lookout, Queensland.

He was working from the John Gillies boat Soverign. Journalist Mike Perry was a writing a story about the team.

Bad luck occured the following week. They returned (from Sydney but without the reporter) to salvage scrap brass tubing from the old WW2 Rufus King shipwreck at nearby Amity Point.

A large wave swamped the Gillies boat and the lot went underwater.

The black marlin capture was re-constructed moments after the real event and appears in Aquarius - People and Wildlife of the Sea.