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)

GBR DOCUMENTARY FILMS © JH Harding

Brass items on an historic wreck site.

Cannon covered with weed.

Ship relics, gold mining equipment.

Stingray - Great Detached Reef area.

Porites coral was home to family of Giant Queensland Groper.

Dean Cropp assisting his Dad

Dugong at Corbett Reef

Dean Cropp with Tawney (Nurse) shark. Great Detached Reef.

Where the Cropp family 'lived off the land and sea' for a documentary project.

Tropical Rock Lobster at Batt Reef (Port Douglas area, Ben's home territory).

Freedom III, North Queensland during the Mystery Bomber Aircraft production.

Lynn Roberts diving assistant and model with Ben Cropp Expeditions

Forbes Island was a location where Ben Cropp and his family made a survival documentary - living off the land and sea,  Coconuts and seafood for a lengthy period.

 

 

S H A R K S 1970s (John H Harding)

 

 

 

 

 

Filmed by Ron Taylor  - JH Harding devised this stunt of holding or riding the whale shark tail. (Uncredited in Innerspace TV series 1980s)

 

                                         Ron Taylor The Gold Coast (1967)

 

84. SS YONGALA Bell salvage Wally Gibbins with Ben Cropp).

Ben and Wally share the same birthday date, 19th January.