CLOWN FISH and ANEMONE

 

WE VISIT COUSTEAU'S 'ALCYONE" Cairns. Qld.

 

Mark Bessington (left)  with Michele Deloire a veteran UW cameraman with the Cousteau Society.  Much of "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" TV series is credited to Michele's work.  We  thank Mark and his counterpart Clay Willcox for their generous hospitality when visiting the ship. More pictures will be added when scanned.

ELECTROLUNG - Inventor Walter Starck (1972)

                                                  Filming a colony of Garden Eel (1972)


 SKIN DIVER MAGAZINE  300 feet on computerized scuba by Paul Tzimoulis  Sept 1970

https://archive.org/details/sim_skin-diver_1970-09_19_9/mode/2up

Other sites have the Skin Diver pages in PDF 

 

"Before the Electrolung" by Richard Walsby

https://gue.com/blog/the-electrolung-the-first-mixed-gas-rebreather-became-available-for-sport-divers-in-1968/

 

ORIGINAL (BIG) BLUE FRONTIER with inventor, biologist, scientist, cameraman Walter A. Starck

Grapeweed at Osprey Reef  (1991)

Lord Howe Island featured location in The Blue Frontier  "Wall of Mouths" episode

Far Seas fishing vessel wrecked at Middleton Reef 

Pictures below show scenes in Voyage to the Coral Sea  (JH Harding photographs)

JH Harding filming aboard the large canoe (below picture)

 

White sand isolated village Eastern PNG

Fathom magazine WAS interview (1972)

National Geographic magazine with WAS story and pictures

JH Harding in 1970  Editor. Fathom magazine

The re breather invented by WAS  The Electrolung (tm)

Maintenance on the Perry Cub Marine (wet sub)

https://fathom9x.blogspot.com - published some of the pictures shown above

 

                 WAS Filming in crocodile and shark territory near Goodenough Island PNG (1972)

WAS interview https://fathom8x.blogspot.com

                                                   

                                                     WAS used of one of his inventions, 

                                                     the Bang Stick (tm) Osprey Reef (1972)