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15/05/2007: "BLUE SKY- DARWIN ........ Rick Trippe hard at work"

A video story showing Rick Trippe chasing fish like these underwater in Darwin Harbour would be interesting and very valid. Rick is one of the few, maybe the only spear fishing diver in Darwin where visibility is poor yet this is compensated by the fish being there in good numbers.

The down side? Too many crocs for comfort. The big sharks eat the small crocodiles which keeps the situation in check.

Rick is a former Sans Souci Dolphins club member of that famous Sydney club with mate John Black.

SImon Trippe is following his famous Dad's flipper trails as both a hotelier and a freediver in Sydney.

Simon recently collected a case of a major 1960's era spearfishing trophies from the champ of champs, Ron Taylor who requested a new home be found for the silver cups.

Included were four consecutive Australian title trophies from that intense era when hundreds of competitors signed on.

(That era pre professional abalone diving. ABout 1967 almost all the top freedivers quit the clubs attracted by millions of dollars available from the sea in the form of molluscs. An undersea gold rush).