(Double click to enlarge pages) Philippe was first interviewed in Fathom magazine (Issue No. 6) by editor John Harding who took Philippe and his wife Jan to Seal Rocks, New South Wales where they spent a few days camping in a caravan owned by Dave Golby – the then manager of the camping ground. Also [...]

Philippe and Jan Cousteau spent several days in Australia and asked us to take them diving.  Being poor magazine editors, we found them a caravan for hire at Seal Rocks.  Although the sea was rough at the time we managed a swim in the sheltered northern rocks area between the two main beaches. Pro Diving [...]

Long Reef in 2009 is a marine sanctuary – spear fishing is permitted for certain species.  The rules are complicated .  Signs everywhere display what is permissible.

Dave Golby was a fisherman at Seal Rocks, New South Wales.  (Philippe Cousteau was most interested in the attitude of local fishermen toward their catch and often subsequent waste of fish during the migration times when catches of mullet and bream were once large). A spearfishing event by Newcastle Neptunes club at Seal Rocks is [...]

Dr Richard M. Ibara (USA) Dr Colin Friendship with cameraman Ron Taylor (in face mask) prepare for a risky night dive knowing there were a dozen Grey reef whaler sharks present – some had been chewing the diving platform earlier that afternoon. Night diving was perfect for shell collecting.  Volutes are nocturnal hunters.  Easily spotted [...]

The first page of a lengthy report.  Coralita was heading to French Territory of the Pacific with a group of six shell collectors and six divers aboard.  Scuba dive travel was new.  This was the second expedition for divers. From California there was Dewey Bergman owner of Sea and Sea Travel in San Francisco. Ron [...]

The first full page COLOR advertisement by a dive shop in any magazine in Australia featured Rick Poole and Tanya Binning.  Sunset picture at Bare Island, Botany Bay, Sydney. Sandra Greentree was the regular Sea Hornet girl.  The Sailfish underwater  picture was something rare. The orange Bookfish are Garibaldi in California – the picture was [...]