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22/01/2007: "SHARKS TREASURE ...... Hollywood movie"

Written, Produced & Directed by Cornel Wilde Filmed underwater, not on the Great Barrier Reef, but at the diving paradise of Marion Reef in The Coral Sea.

Wally Muller took this film crew, and others, to our favourite dive destination of the 1970's aboard Coralita. Doug Smith and an Australian crew was hired to help film the underwater shark stunts.

(Doug Smith was to later vanish while spear fishing from his Cairns-based dive charter boat, thought to have "been taken by a large shark". Apparent teeth marks on a weight belt, with a speargun nearby was all that remained).