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27/08/2006: "MARLIN .......Black Marlin off Cairns"

My Beaulieu 16mm movie cam was exposing 64 frames per second when the 700 pound Black Marlin made this jump. The lens used was an Angenieux 9.5mm to 57mm zoom - compact and good for action like this.

We were aboard Captain Peter Bristow's Avalon in the channel between No.3 and No.4 Ribbon Reef. These days Peter Bristow fishes exclusively around the island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean.

The film sequence and others appear in my Australian Seafari a 111 minute documentary shown extensively in clubs and theatres around the coast of Australia, (for a considerable time - but not recently).