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Ron and Valerie Taylor

Index Ron and Valerie Taylor

Ron Josiah Taylor, AM (8 March 19349 September 2012) was a prominent Australian shark expert, as is his widow, Valerie May Taylor née Heighes, AM (born 9 November 1935). [1]

82 relations: A Dangerous Summer, ABC News (Australia), Acute myeloid leukemia, Age of Consent (film), Antibes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Geographic, Australian Underwater Federation, Barrier Reef (TV series), Belgian Scientific Expedition, Ben Cropp, Blue Water White Death, Centenary Medal, Channel 4, Cinematographer, Coffee table book, Coral Sea Islands, Encyclopædia Britannica, Film Australia, Flipper (1995 TV series), Fortress (1985 film), Frog Dreaming, Gallipoli (1981 film), Great Barrier Reef, Great white shark, Hammerhead shark, Honeymoon in Vegas, Hurstville, New South Wales, International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, Jacques Cousteau, Jaws (film), Jaws 2, KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, Lizard Island National Park, Logie Awards, Movietone News, National Geographic Society, Neptune Islands, New South Wales, Ningaloo Coast, NOGI Awards, Orca (film), Order of the Golden Ark, Persian Gulf, Petroleum, Police Story 4: First Strike, Potato grouper, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Professional diving, Queensland, ..., Return to the Blue Lagoon, Richard Dennison, Robert Raymond, Rodney Fox, Scuba Schools International, Shark cage diving, Shark Shield, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Sky Pirates, South Africa, Spearfishing, SS Yongala, Sven Libaek, Sydney, Tahiti, Talking Heads (Australian TV series), The Blue Lagoon (1980 film), The Intruders (1969 film), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film), The Last Wave, The Rescue (1988 film), The Year of Living Dangerously (film), Those Amazing Animals, Tiger shark, Time-Life Television, Underwater photography, Underwater Society of America, Underwater sports, W.D. & H.O. Wills, Whale shark, William Shatner, 1992 cageless shark-diving expedition. Expand index (32 more) »

A Dangerous Summer

A Dangerous Summer is a 1982 Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and James Mason.

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cells.

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Age of Consent (film)

Age of Consent (also known as Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent) is a 1969 Australian film which was the penultimate feature film directed by British director Michael Powell.

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Antibes

Antibes (Provençal Occitan: Antíbol) is a Mediterranean resort in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Geographic

Australian Geographic is a media business that produces the Australian Geographic magazine, DMag magazine, specialist book titles, travel guides, diaries and calendars and online media.

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Australian Underwater Federation

The Australian Underwater Federation (AUF) is the governing body for underwater sports in Australia.

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Barrier Reef (TV series)

Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971.

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Belgian Scientific Expedition

Belgian Scientific Expedition was a scientific survey of the Great Barrier Reef, conducted in 1967-1968.

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Ben Cropp

Benjamin 'Ben' Cropp AM (born 19 January 1936) is an Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and a former Open Australian spearfishing champion.

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Blue Water White Death

Blue Water, White Death is a 1971 American documentary about sharks which was produced by Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb.

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Centenary Medal

The Centenary Medal is an award created by the Australian Government in 2001.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Coffee table book

A coffee table book is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation.

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Coral Sea Islands

The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Film Australia

Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia.

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Flipper (1995 TV series)

Flipper (also known as Flipper – The New Adventures) is an American revival television series of the original 1964 ''Flipper'' television series.

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Fortress (1985 film)

Fortress is a 1985 Australian made-for-TV thriller film directed by Arch Nicholson and written by Everett De Roche, and starring Rachel Ward, based on Gabrielle Lord's 1980 novel the Fortress.

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Frog Dreaming

Frog Dreaming is a 1986 Australian family adventure film starring Henry Thomas and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.".

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Gallipoli (1981 film)

Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several rural Western Australian young men who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Great white shark

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), commonly known as the great white or the white shark, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.

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Hammerhead shark

The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, so named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape called a cephalofoil.

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Honeymoon in Vegas

Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 comedy film directed by Andrew Bergman and starring Nicolas Cage, James Caan and Sarah Jessica Parker.

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Hurstville, New South Wales

Hurstville is a suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame

The International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame (ISDHF) is an annual event that recognizes those who have contributed to the success and growth of recreational scuba diving in dive travel, entertainment, art, equipment design and development, education, exploration and adventure.

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Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

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Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.

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Jaws 2

Jaws 2 is a 1978 American thriller film, the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the ''Jaws'' franchise.

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KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board

A notice at a beach protected by the Board The KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, previously the Natal Sharks Board and Natal Anti-Shark Measures Board is an organisation that maintains shark nets and drum lines off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, to protect bathers and surfers from shark attacks, at 38 places, along 320 km of coastline.

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Lizard Island National Park

Lizard Island is a national park on an island of the same name on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland (Australia), 1624 km northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island.

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Logie Awards

The Logie Awards (officially the "TV Week Logie Awards") are an annual institution that celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by magazine TV Week since 1959.

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Movietone News

Movietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States, and – as British Movietone News – from 1929 to 1979 in the United Kingdom.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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Neptune Islands

The Neptune Islands consist of two groups of islands located close to the entrance to Spencer Gulf in South Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Ningaloo Coast

The Ningaloo Coast is a World Heritage Site located in the north west coastal region of Western Australia.

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NOGI Awards

The NOGI Awards is an award presented annually by the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences to diving luminaries and is "considered the Oscar of the ocean world." Selection of recipients is based on their record of accomplishments and excellence in the diving world.

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Orca (film)

Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American disaster horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sampson.

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Order of the Golden Ark

The Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark (Orde van de Gouden Ark) is a Dutch order of merit established in 1971 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Police Story 4: First Strike

Police Story 4: First Strike (often released as Jackie Chan's First Strike) is a 1996 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Wu Chen-chun and Bill Tung.

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Potato grouper

The potato grouper (Epinephelus tukula), also called the potato cod or potato bass, is a least concern fish as labeled by the IUCN Red List, and a native fish in Australia The potato grouper is also a native to many other Asian countries.

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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; German: Bernhard Friedrich Eberhard Leopold Julius Kurt Carl Gottfried Peter Graf von Biesterfeld; 29 June 1911 – 1 December 2004) was a German-born prince who was the consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; they were the parents of four children, including the former Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Beatrix.

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Professional diving

Professional diving is diving where the divers are paid for their work.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Return to the Blue Lagoon

Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 American romance and adventure film starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause, produced and directed by William A. Graham.

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Richard Dennison

Richard Dennison is an Australian documentary filmmaker.

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Robert Raymond

Robert Alwyn Raymond OAM (7 July 1922 – 26 September 2003) was an Australian Logie Award winning producer, director, writer, filmmaker and journalist.

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Rodney Fox

Rodney Winston Fox is a South Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark, and one of the world's foremost authorities on that species.

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Scuba Schools International

Scuba Schools International (SSI) is an organization that teaches the skills involved in scuba diving and freediving, and supports dive businesses and resorts.

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Shark cage diving

Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact with the divers.

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Shark Shield

Shark Shield is a personal electronic device that creates an electromagnetic field to deter shark attacks and is used by surfers, scuba divers, spearfishing, and ocean kayak fishing.

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Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (known commonly as Skippy) is an Australian television series created by Australian actor John McCallum, produced from 1967–1969 (airing from 1968–1970) about the adventures of a young boy and his highly intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney.

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Sky Pirates

Sky Pirates (also known as Dakota Harris) is a 1986 Australian adventure film written and produced by John D. Lamond, and directed by Colin Eggleston.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Spearfishing

Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia.

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SS Yongala

The passenger ship SS Yongala sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911.

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Sven Libaek

Sven Libaek (born 20 September 1938) is an Australian composer, record producer and musician.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (previously also known as Otaheite (obsolete) is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia. The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts: the bigger, northwestern part, Tahiti Nui, and the smaller, southeastern part, Tahiti Iti. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs. The population is 189,517 inhabitants (2017 census), making it the most populous island of French Polynesia and accounting for 68.7% of its total population. Tahiti is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity (sometimes referred to as an overseas country) of France. The capital of French Polynesia, Papeete, is located on the northwest coast of Tahiti. The only international airport in the region, Fa'a'ā International Airport, is on Tahiti near Papeete. Tahiti was originally settled by Polynesians between 300 and 800AD. They represent about 70% of the island's population, with the rest made up of Europeans, Chinese and those of mixed heritage. The island was part of the Kingdom of Tahiti until its annexation by France in 1880, when it was proclaimed a colony of France, and the inhabitants became French citizens. French is the only official language, although the Tahitian language (Reo Tahiti) is widely spoken.

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Talking Heads (Australian TV series)

Talking Heads is an Australian television series presented by Peter Thompson.

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The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)

The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romantic survival drama film directed by Randal Kleiser and filmed on the Blue Lagoon in Malta and on Turtle Island in Fiji.

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The Intruders (1969 film)

The Intruders (also known as Skippy and the Intruders) is a 1969 Australian film directed by Lee Robinson.

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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)

The Island of Dr.

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The Last Wave

The Last Wave is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir.

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The Rescue (1988 film)

The Rescue is a 1988 adventure film about a group of teenagers who infiltrate a North Korean prison to rescue their Navy SEAL fathers.

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The Year of Living Dangerously (film)

The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Australian romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously.

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Those Amazing Animals

Those Amazing Animals is a reality television series about animals and their extraordinary lives.

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Tiger shark

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of requiem shark and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo.

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Time-Life Television

Time-Life Television, a division of Time-Life Films, was the television production and distribution arm of Time Inc. With CBS led a partnership to export their shows overseas.

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Underwater photography

Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water.

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Underwater Society of America

The Underwater Society of America (USOA) is the peak body for underwater sport and recreational diving in the United States of America.

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Underwater sports

Underwater sports is a group of competitive sports using one or a combination of the following underwater diving techniques - breath-hold, snorkelling or scuba including the use of equipment such as diving masks and fins.

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W.D. & H.O. Wills

W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England.

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Whale shark

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.

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William Shatner

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director.

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1992 cageless shark-diving expedition

The 1992 cage-less shark-diving expedition was the world's first recorded intentionally cage-less dive with great white sharks, contributing to a change in public opinions about the supposed ferocity of these animals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_and_Valerie_Taylor

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