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27/06/2007: "UNDERWATER MODEL ....... original grey nurse 'shark diver'"

Christine Danaher was a regular model who appeared often in the original People magazine – when it was produced by David Naylor, Chris Black, Ben Mitchell and publisher Jules Zanetti.

Then it was a bigger circulation weekly with several pages of Australian adventure travel content.

This was where Christine (pictured about to dive with a grey nurse shark school at Seal Rocks) built a following of fans from around Australia.

Christine was a regular aboard Coralita and introduced me to the new owner and skipper Albie Ziebell which resulted in many memorable voyages within the Coral Sea east of Cairns.

Ron Isbell invited Christine aboard his Tropic Rover to join a team filming a TV episode for Wild Kingdom – the former very popular American wildlife show.

Cameraman Howard Hall asked Christine to model for him.

On scuba they photographed a pair of mating green turtle off Wilson Island.

My pictures (already shown elsewhere here) were taken when Howard was out of film and the turtles were surfacing for air.