tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381071862253935212024-03-12T16:22:01.989-07:00WALLY GIBBINSProfessional salvage diving in the South Pacific Ocean was a big adventure passion for young Australians. Wally Gibbins and friends were underwater pioneers in The Solomon Islands.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338107186225393521.post-45776707561936342162019-07-02T16:01:00.002-07:002019-07-02T16:01:30.699-07:00SCUBA: WALLY GIBBINS (COFFS HARBOUR)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338107186225393521.post-69116828488371199792015-12-03T14:13:00.001-08:002019-07-01T18:09:36.244-07:00PERSONAL SHARK RESEARCH early 1960s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Wally Gibbins </b>cover shots (above).<b> Tiger shark</b> (left)<b> </b>from <i>Sykes Reef</i> ( Capricorn and Bunker Group 1963) - spotted first by John Gallagher. Larger 10 gauge shotgun powerhead <i>euthanased </i>specimen for 'scientific research' i.e. <u>a powerhead could be used on large sharks successfully, if and when required, in defense.</u> (Such as in a shipwreck lifeboat scenario - the <b>Caucom Family Incident </b>offshore Yeppoon, Qld comes to mind. No powerhead available in that tragedy where large Tiger sharks found a small drifting aluminium lifeboat with three occupants, possibly shouting at times, possibly urinating into the sea also, after a considerable time to evaluate any danger or hazard to them. tipped the vessel over in rough sea conditions then quickly 'took' two of the three occupants).</div>
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The single survivor was able to reveal these details. A sudden storm had capsized their larger vessel.</div>
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<b>The Grey Nurse picture</b> was at Long Reef, Sydney.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338107186225393521.post-84136749837979379252015-10-02T13:46:00.003-07:002020-03-31T16:58:19.584-07:00SALVAGE SOUTH PACIFIC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reg Thomas of Don Tas diving and salvage company, Honiara, Solomon Islands (in 1987). Base, now back in Australia with wife and business partner Helen. Reflecting today on his 101 near-death experiences underwater.d in The Solomon Islands during thirty years working with explosive and war era shipwrecks in deep water.<br />
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The Solomon Islands sells fishing rights to foreign ships. (Above news item involves a shark fin incident in PNG during August 2015).<br />
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Xyuru Maru - salvaged by Reg Thomas and towed back to Japan by his tug.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wally Gibbins' nephew, Malcolm McLeod in the RAN hospital (Balmoral, Sydney) after re compression treatment for 'the bends' suffered while helping his uncle salvage dive in The Solomon Islands.<br />
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The location of the wreck of the <i>Pandora</i> was first pin-pointed in November 1977 by a RAAF P-2V Neptune which dropped a flare where it had detected the magnetic anomaly caused by the wreck; the wreck was subsequently sighted by a diver called Ron Bell, working with documentary filmmaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cropp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ben Cropp">Ben Cropp</a>. On that day under the radio guidance of Ben Cropp, searchers on the ground were initially unsuccessful in pinpointing the wreck at an expected location. Also on that day a second documentary filmmaker team, led by Steve Domm, joined the search. After the wreck site was located on the following day, it was immediately declared a protected site under the Australian <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Shipwrecks_Act_1976" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976">Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976</a></i>, Messrs.Cropp and Domm sharing the maximum reward payable under that legislation. It is located approximately 5 km north-west of Moulter Cay <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><span style="position: relative; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="external text" href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=HMS_Pandora_%281779%29&params=11_23_S_143_59_E_" style="background: none !important; color: #663366; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span class="geo-default" style="display: inline;"><span class="geo-dms" style="display: inline;" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">11°23′S</span> <span class="longitude">143°59′E</span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span id="coordinates" style="float: right; font-size: 11.0500001907349px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right; top: 0px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><img alt="" class="wmamapbutton noprint" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Show location on an interactive map" /><a class="external text" href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=HMS_Pandora_%281779%29&params=11_23_S_143_59_E_" style="background: none !important; color: #663366; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span class="geo-default" style="display: inline;"><span class="geo-dms" style="display: inline;" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">11°23′S</span> <span class="longitude">143°59′E</span></span></span></a></span></span></span>on the outer Great Barrier Reef, approximately 140 km east of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_Peninsula" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cape York Peninsula">Cape York</a>, on the edge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Sea" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Coral Sea">Coral Sea</a>.</div>
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Museum" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queensland Museum">Queensland Museum</a> has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavation_(archaeology)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Excavation (archaeology)">excavating</a> the wreck according to a research design. Archaeologists and historians at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Tropical_Queensland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Museum of Tropical Queensland">Museum of Tropical Queensland</a> are still gradually fitting together pieces of the <i>Pandora</i> story puzzle, using the archaeological evidence as well as the extant historical evidence. A large collection of artefacts is on display at the museum.</div>
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In the course of nine seasons of excavation during the 1980s and 1990s, the museum's marine archaeological teams established that approximately 30% of the hull is preserved as a more or less intact structure (Gesner,2000:39ff) The vessel came to rest at a depth of between 30 and 33 m on a gently sloping sandy bottom, slightly inclined to starboard; consequently more of the starboard side has been preserved than the port side of the hull. Approximately one third of the overburden in which the wreck is buried has been excavated by the Queensland Museum to date; it is estimated that the remainder to be excavated amounts to approximately 350 m³. This would probably require at least another ten full-blown seasons of excavation – assuming a similar methodology and level of technology is used as on previous museum expeditions. If an expedition were to be mounted from the 2008–09 summer – and subsequently at a rate of one excavation per summer (until 2017–18) – it is estimated that at least A$9.5 million would be required to complete ten seasons of fieldwork. Additional funds (approximately between $450,000 and $550,000 p/a) would also be required to provide for salaries of at least four additional full-time, 'back-of-house' professional contract positions at the museum, until at least 2020.</div>
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For strategic and financial reasons, there are no plans to continue excavation in the foreseeable future. However, if the Queensland Museum were to continue excavation, priority would be given to the area under the stern and to the bow section of the wreck; especially to the various petty officers' storerooms that were erected in the bow at platform deck level in vessels of the <i>Pandora'</i>s design. In addition to exposing professional and personal items belonging to the ordinary sailors and to such crew members as the carpenter and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Boatswain">boatswain</a>, the forward storerooms are expected to contain a range of extra spare stores and fittings which the <i>Pandora</i> was carrying in anticipation of the need to refit the <i>Bounty</i> after her recapture. (FROM EN.WIKIPEDIA - PANDORA 1779)</div>
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<b>Wally Muller</b>’s dedication to exploring The Swain Reefs and The Coral Sea reef waters has placed him in local reef history and international diving history as one of the most committed Great Barrier Reef 20th century pioneers.<br />
Wally was born on 18 July 1930 at Blackall, Queensland. He was a boarder at Rockhampton Boys Grammar School and was a brilliant long distance swimmer.<br />
From 1948, Wally made his name in the fishing industry as the only person to commercially fish on the Swains Reefs. He also introduced the art of filleting fish at sea and freezing fillets in a 4000 pound holding freezer so he could stay out longer especially if the weather turned too rough for the return voyage.<br />
Wally was contracted by USA's Gulf Oil in 1964 when they were making the first aerial maps of The Swain Reefs for future oil searching. He also navigated the seismic ship that mapped the coastline of New Zealand looking for oil.<br />
Three boats: Wally’s beloved first boat was 43 foot and lugger-style called Riversong and his second was 60 foot Careelah followed by the purpose built 79 foot TSMV Coralita, in 1969. (Norman R Wright boat builders, Brisbane). Coralita immediately had a high pressure air compressor fitted (the first live-aboard to do this in Australia) enabling charters by USA scuba travel agencies (Sea and See, Bay Travel and La Mer Diving Safari) for diving and underwater photography especially in The Swain Reefs and The Coral Sea. <br />
VIP: Coralita was chartered by the Federal Government for a VIP trip in the Capricorn and Bunker Group for a visiting overseas leader in 1972.<br />
Family: Wally had two sons, Walter (known as Roy) and Alexander, who grew up on the water in the Capricorn region. Both became professional fishermen and expert divers appearing in documentary films by Ron and Valerie Taylor.<br />
1950s: Many of The Swain Reef original names were given to them by Wally. The naming of one particular reef has became a much loved and retold local story:<br />
“One day, after Wally had finished fishing, he was sailing back to a good anchorage for the evening in the Swains area. Suddenly, he ran past a reef that was not spotted previously and Wally didn’t realise was there. Wally said “Where did that come from?… it’s a real mystery" that’s how Mystery Reef was named!"<br />
Contract work: Other charters were to New Guinea and the dangerous Fly River (for the OK Tedi mine company) and to ' pirate infested' waters of the Celebes.<br />
Saving ship and crew: On two occasions Wally ran diving charters to Middleton Reef in the southern section of The Coral Sea east of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales in the hope of avoiding cyclones that were regular in Queensland. On both voyages to Middleton Reef, Coralita encountered a cyclone. (Named Ulan and later a larger cyclonme named Colin) In order to save Coralita, Wally salvaged a giant iron anchor from a nearby historic shipwreck and lashed his own ships' anchor to the old larger one. This was necessary due to shallow water in the lagoon at Middleton Reef.<br />
Inspiration: Wally Muller's nautical hero was the British naval explorer Matthew Flinders who had chartered reefs in The Coral Sea. Wally had a personal quest to locate the same reefs using only his sextant and his own navigational skills as this was the era prior to GPS.<br />
Rare shells: Also a keen shell collector, Wally would dive at night under Coralita to locate live shells such as Voluta thatcheri (at Chesterfield Reef French Territory of the Pacific) and Voluta perplicata at Lihou Reef also in The Coral Sea.<br />
Movie work: Wally was also popular with Hollywood film crews seeking sharks for movies such as "Sharks Treasure" "The Deep" and several major TV documentaries. A favourite location became "Dynamite Pass" at Marion Reef where crystal clear water and an abundance of Grey Reef sharks was guaranteed.<br />
Film career: Wally's first appearance as a dory fisherman and diver aboard Riversong is highlighted in the 26 minute color documentary by Ron Taylor's "Saumarez Reef" (1964) which shows a visit aboard the stranded 7,196 ton Liberty shipwreck US Francis Preston Blair on Saumarez Reef.<br />
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Mullers Reef 21-173 was formally named after Wally Muller by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on 1 November 2007.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338107186225393521.post-78935751104980077732013-11-26T15:30:00.004-08:002020-03-31T16:58:49.441-07:00THE SOLOMONS PROJECT CONCLUDES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">via John Sumner) "Yesterday I had a phone call from Maritime Safety Queensland to say that MR WALLY has sunk in the Mary River, Maryborough, and they wanted to find out who owns it currently so that it can be removed".</span></span><br />
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Longer same scene is also near the end of this French language sharks documentary at 1.22.50 which was broadcast 24 September 2013.<br />
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<b>Underwater Spear Fisherman's Association</b> (USFA) was formed at a meeting held (probably after a dive) at Long Reef, Sydney in 1947. <b>Wally Gibbins </b>would have been aged seventeen then and we can assume was in the group. <br />
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The old guys helped new members in those days. <b>Kerry Heffernan </b>was there too as a baby, age THREE and a paid-up member number 15 of the USFA - the youngest ever. <br />
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Kerry Heffernan provided this booklet of his father's equipment. (to be continued...click REFRESH or reload on your browser when returning later).<br />
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<b>Ron Taylor's <i>Skindiving Paradise</i> (1964) </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WALTER HAMILTON GIBBINS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1930 – 2006</b></span><br />
Jan 19 1930 - 12 August 2006</div>
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The NSW Spearfishing and Freediving Association (USFA) is saddened to report the passing of Life Member and diving legend, Wally Gibbins.<br />
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Wally was born at Turramurra, Sydney on the 19th January 1930, finishing his schooling at Crows Nest Technical College in 1944 with a credible 3rd in the combined schools final exam.<br />
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His pioneering diving career began in 1947 when his family moved from Greenwich to Middle Head where the clear water enticed him to fashion some diving gear and develop an interest in spearfishing which began in the early summer of late 1947.<br />
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He dived alone around Middle Head for some months without meeting any other divers, then when the USFA was formed in April of 1948 soon enrolled as a member and elected to the committee shortly after. He was unbeaten in spearfishing competitions in the ensuing years. One feat worth mentioning was his performance in the first contest between Anglers and Spearmen held in 1952. Wal not only finished well ahead of his team mates but his catch alone surpassed all 37 anglers who had fished from the shore and from boats. Wal had rock-hopped fishing close to the shoreline. Wal was only able to compete for one day at the first national championships held in 1953, where he again top scored but was overtaken by those who fished the next day.<br />
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Wal then discontinued club activities and undertook a six month trip to the Great Barrier Reef for the filming of “The King of the Coral Sea” featuring Chips Rafferty and Rod Taylor. The “Lawson Lungs” which he had assisted in designing and building were used extensively during the production of this film. Wal filmed all the underwater footage and doubled as a stuntman for one of the actors.<br />
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Three years later he began his professional diving career by salvage diving in Dutch New Guinea (now Indonesia’s West Irian province). Returning to Sydney he began working for Barnes Scuba Service before forming his own company known simply as “The Diving Company”.<br />
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At the urging of Ron Taylor and Ben Cropp he returned to spearfishing competitions competing for the first time at the 1961-62 National titles at Currarong where he was runner-up in the pairs, third in the open and headed the winning team on the final day.<br />
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He joined the St. George Sea Dragons to soon be elected President, a position he held for several years until resigning to work away from Sydney. He was later to be awarded life membership of St. George.<br />
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In following competitions he narrowly missed winning on several occasions to be the Open Runner-up but was often on the winning pairs or teams side representing NSW.<br />
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Wal was chosen to represent Australia at the 1965 world spearfishing championships in Tahiti. Unfortunately a shallow water blackout whilst practicing prior to the event ruled him out of the competition. Ron Taylor won this competition and with Peter Kemp came third in the teams. Wal also represented Australia in Noumea on two occasions.<br />
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Leaving Australia to work as a diver in salvage operations in the Solomon Islands he soon formed a club of diving enthusiasts, presiding over the club for six years before returning to Australia. At monthly competitions held in the Solomon’s, Wal remained unbeaten.<br />
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Upon his return Wal took up residence at Toormina near Coffs Harbour where he joined the local club and was only beaten once in several years of competing. The club switched from spearing to underwater photographic competitions which Wal also won each year.<br />
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Joining with Ben Cropp he assisted in the making of a number of TV documentaries based on a trip around Australia, with the last couple, at Wal’s instigation, based on a visit to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.<br />
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His various diving interests has seen him hiring out as a guide diver to the Barrier Reef, making underwater movies and taping documentaries with the Japanese and also a trip back to the Solomon’s, revisiting the many wrecks he discovered there.<br />
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Engrossed in shell collecting Wal displayed an amazing collection and was instrumental in locating the habitats of some of the very rare shells that had not been previously known to science.<br />
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Wal’s first shark capture was a Wobbegong Shark caught at Middle Head in 1947 and caught the first Whaler Shark during a club outing in 1950 and his first Grey Nurse Shark in 1952. His largest shark was an 11ft. 2inch Tiger Shark weighing 860lbs which was killed with a powerhead when it swam towards him after being disturbed whilst feeding on a stingray. This was at Sykes Reef in 1963.<br />
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In October of 1995 Walter Hammond (sic) Gibbins was awarded life membership of the NSW Branch of the Australian Underwater Federation in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the sport.<br />
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FOOTNOTE: A common account on the Maori wrasse capture has it that Ron Taylor 'lost' this big fish and was helped to find it again by one of the English team. This is to imply that a diver of Ron Taylor's experience, couldn't relocate a cave that he'd just left. The UK diver who shouted or said words to the effect 'the fish is here' was in all probability making an incidental remark. This does not prove Taylor was confused. That Taylor didn't know where his speared fish with broken spear-line attached, was holed-up. According to Taylor's account of the incident, he broke the spear-line in haste as time was running out. This could hardly constitute 'losing' a fish while the first spear was attached. It would be highly unlikely that Taylor didn't know where the cave was and required someone to help him. On the other hand, maybe there was confusion in those final minutes and maybe the UK diver did help by marking the location of the cave?<br />
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<b>Wally Gibbins had a skin diving career that spanned the Pacific Ocean. He salvaged non ferrous metals from Japanese war ships in deep water, often using high explosives contained within the ships the blow them open. Today some tourist dive companies regard his outstanding career as vandalism, failing to recognise the pioneering aspects of diving.</b></div>
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<b>Also a keen shell collector his knowledge was admired by academics of this field, especially when he found numerous </b><b><i>Gloria maris</i>, the rarest sea shell in our part of the world and released by mail his 'price list' based on lengths of each specimen. Experts were dumbfounded at the time.</b></div>
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<b>The large 'shoulder gun' was useful, Wal explained his tequnique. 'tuck the butt under your arm thus allowing a particularly fast horizontal swing to be made underwater - i.e. when aiming at fast swimming large fish'. Many friends were unable to load one of Wal's large guns.</b></div>
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Wally Gibbins was age 13 when the war was happening in The Solomon Islands. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mister Wally" (originally Bali Hai)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Sawtell NSW - shipping salvage gear to The Solomon Islands. <br />
Pictured: Malcolm McLeod (nephew), John Sumner and Wally Gibbins<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bonegi</i> <i>II </i> wreck near Honiara<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mal McLat HMAS Penguin's naval hospital when he had 'the bends' .</td></tr>
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Wal's nephew and salvage diver, Malcolm McLeod lived with Wally and his mother. Later the house was lost financially when a deal involving buying a professional fishing boat and license went sour. Then Mal had a fatal accident with a rifle in his bedroom. It was not a good time for Wally and his mother.<br />
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Invited to host a dive trip, <b>Captain Wally Muller</b> owner of the charter boat <i>Coralita</i> called on the services of' Wally' to host diving expeditions when the ship scheduled trips to The Solomon Islands. They encountered a live volcano erupting at sea with chunks of lava flying overhead and to the other side of the vessel.<br />
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Wally surfacing after a scuba dive on the Birchgrove Park, a shipwreck in 160 feet of depth (or more) off the northern beaches of Sydney. The jewfish (mulloway) are/were common visitors to the wreck. Wally and a friend discovered the wreck's location with a borrow depth sounder, an incredible effort in the early 1960s.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pat Burgess was a correspondent in Saigon during the American War, later a TV journalist with 4 Corners. His biography below is worthwhile reading.</span></td></tr>
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With Ben Cropp making documentary films on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Together they located many ancient shipwrecks.<br />
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The brass steering wheel (above right) came from a ship in the Solomon Islands. It was last seen in a trendy Coffs Harbour (New South Wales) hotel with other marine artifacts, presumably sold by Wal before he passed away. He caption the picture with the brass wheel, Emergency wheel, 5,000 ton USA oil tanker 'attack oiler Number one' "KANAWHA".<br />
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Once the most rare shell in the world. Wally reveals the details behind his discovery - recorded just a few months before he passed away in 2006. <i><b> Gloria maris</b></i> ("Glory of the Sea")<br />
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THE POISONOUS CONE SHELL Gloria maris WAS ONCE THE RAREST SEA SHELL IN THE WORLD.<br />
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Wally Gibbins put an end to that when he found dozens in the Solomon Islands. It was a location where few divers ventured – protection of the shells guaranteed by saltwater crocs and a few sharks. i.e. river mouths on black sand at night in 60 feet of water under rotting tree’s.<br />
Not where tourists and ‘sporting divers’ are likely to frolic.<br />
The price of Gloria Maris dropped from thousands of dollars each to a few hundred bucks today when dozens of the shells slowly crept onto the market.<br />
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When a shell collector is a mega billionaire, the effort to find a new species can be staggering. No expense is spared. John duPont (USA) mounted an expedition in search of the volute thatcheri in the 1960′s, even producing a motion picture film of the quest.<br />
Today, scuba diving has taken a different direction There are more distractions than in the old days when you either speared fish or talked about aqualungs. Underwater photography was a complex and difficult hobby – pre automatic Nikonos camera’s in the 1980′s.<br />
A final point on sea shells is the number of species in the ocean. Something like 4:1 of the known fish species. What exists in the very deep depths is the final frontier.<br />
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<b>Ted Louis</b> began collecting shells in 1959, being inspired by <b>Wally Gibbins</b> collection.</div>
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The three brilliant colored shells are Golden cowries.</div>
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Diving played a part in some recent discoveries. In other examples it was the extreme location of the shell that kept it hidden from the world. </div>
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Distant Coral Sea reefs especially where the cost of fuel today now protects these locations. Few boats are prepared to travel this vast distance.</div>
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To understand the value and rarity of shells easier: volute shells have markings according to their habitat location.</div>
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A volute at Chesterfield Reefs has different marking to those on the Great Barrier Reef. Heron Island has a volute not found outside its zone. And so it goes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Wal passed away 12 August 2006 age 76</u></span></div>
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