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09/01/2007: "TOM BYRON ..... Portrait 1983"

Tom Byron (left) is a publisher, author and photographer of dive guide and history books.

Barry May (centre) at the time was skipper and owner of Auriga Bay - a Cairns dive vessel.

Barry Andrewartha (right) publisher and editor of Skindiving in Australia and New Zealand magazine, later launching Dive Log (the dive shop free monthly newspaper) and Sport Diving Magazine.

This was aboard the first scuba diving expedition to the far north of Queensland. We departed Cairns, flew home from Thursday Island.

There was a memorable dive on the SS Quetta shipwreck in a very strong current which appeared in the video-released documentary Reef Safari the following year.