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| Brian Raison, Sans Souci Dolphins |
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| (More about Wal's nephew, Malcolm McLeod under "SALVAGE") |
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| The late Trina Fleischman at Seal Rocks, New South Wales. |
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| Various friends in December 1963 - Kangaroo Island, South Australia for the Australian Championships. |
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| Rodney Fox a few days after his stitches were removed. |
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Vic Ley aboard Riversong with his catch from 'The Fish Tail' region of North West Island. |
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| Rodney on holiday at North Stradbroke Island, Queensland in 1967 North Stradbroke Island (underwater) <Click |
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Australian champion spear fisherman Vic Ley with large flathead from Hat Head and (below) Vic (also known as "Snowie") boating a Mulloway speared near Jibbon Bommie, Sydney. Margret Peard admires the catch. |
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| L-R Robert Hatch, Frank Swinkles, George Davies - all with Newcaste Neptunes club at Seal Rocks, NSW. George Davies 'Ode to Wally' appears at the end of this blog.          THE LAST STRAW <click (Why I quit spear fishing competitions by Bob Grounds) .jpg) Bob Grounds replaced Wally on the Riversong trip to Saumarez Reef in 1964 appearing in "Slaughter at Saumarez" by Ron Taylor Film Productions (website) HOW JACK EGAN REMEMBERS WALLY <click (Jack being a pioneer spear fishing diver of the 1950s and earlier) DOUBLE CLICK TO ENLARGE PICTURES |
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Trina Fleischmann (in 1999) former hired baby sitter aboard BEVA when Wally and Ben Cropp were in The Solomon Islands and elsewhere, caring for Lynn Cropp's young family while Lynn worked in film production. Later in early 2013 Ben would sadly scatter Trina's ashes at Hope Island, north of Port Douglas, Queensland. Trina had become a lifelong friend who participated in a dozen film making expeditions with Ben and crew over three decades (Other pictures of Trina at Seal Rocks blog: http://sealsnsw.wordpress.com)
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| John Harding and John Fairfax visit Wal at the Sunday market where he sold sea shells |
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| OFFICIAL KATHY TROUTT <Click |
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| John Harding shark photography |
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| Fathom magazine issue 3 page 27 (1971) |
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| Dave Moran of New Zealand does a hard hat test dip. |
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| Ben Cropp's dinghy (driven by John Harding) accidentally ran over the large shark while following it for photography the aim being to use an underwater pole camera. Surprisingly, the shark retaliated by biting and firmly holding onto the pontoon for several minutes. Usually if a shark is injured it will flee. Initial ID was "tiger shark" later inquiries have suggested a Lemon shark. An Australian shark expert (with the CSIRO) could not ID the species from the still pictures except to say "it is not a tiger shark". |
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| Trina Fleischmann inspecting the damage to Ben Cropp's dinghy - which has an aluminium hull, fortunately. |
Ben Cropp was a part-owner of Marineland. Ron Cox became the manager.
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| Note the penetrating possibility of a very sharp (barb-less) spear, sharpened into a triangular point. |
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