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JH looking a bit serious - as an amateur makes the photo with his camera
Fisheye lens view Bob Grounds with a Queensland groper
Richard Ibara above a Zero WW2 aircraft at Nukuoro Atoll
Jenny Perry and Merle Hawkins with the hammerhead that gave birth underwater
Trevor Collins with a marlin he speared
Sandra Greentree (and husband to be) John C Fairfax with one of the baby whaler sharks born on the beach at Point Lookout. All scenes fdeatured in the film.
The advertised 1970 film show dates went ahead, yet the magazine did not go on sale until January 1971. Being printed in Hong Kong meant a magazine cover publication month or date was not a wise idea. In this era pre container-shippping, delays were common as were strikes by the workers. The quality and price obtained in Hong Kong was far superior to anything happening in Australia or even USA at the time.
Our publisher, Gareth Powell lived in Hong Kong for several years and during the fathom era made 50 international flights out of Sydney in one 12 month period, all aboard 707's. He narrowly missed being on a Cathy 707 flight that was lost over South Vietnam, when he gave-up his free seat to a Catholic priest.
