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03/01/2008: "JOCELYN EDWARDS ...... Australian underwater model"

'Joss' joined a game fishing and documentary filming expedition off Cairns, Queensland.

The film was for a major Hollywood movie requiring action marlin and dolphin scenes.

Captain Peter Bristow at right with Jocelyn and the cameraman.

Additional underwater action was recorded with an improvised pole camera designed by Captain Bristow.

Recorded on film was maybe half a dozen large tiger sharks feeding on a 1006 pound black marlin previously caught by our famous friend 'Brizakka' from his own boat.

An oceanic whaler shark and several other common whalers joined the underwater feast.

Nobody entered the water. The largest tiger shark was guessed at five meters in length.

Most tigers were four meters long and about half the body weight of that big specimen just one meter longer.

That what happens with sharks, the body fills out rather than growing longer, with age.

A pair of four meter tiger sharks were gaffed, at great risk, by Bristow's deckhands, Noel and Ducie.