Ben Cropp likes to think of the ocean as the great humbler. "The wonderful thing when you get out at sea, the big knob comes down to your level. "Because your level is just nature." Sitting surrounded ...
THE year Ben Cropp gave up shark hunting, he claims he helped plant the seeds of protecting the Great Barrier Reef in the mind Harold Holt. “He and I talked about ‘let’s protect the Great Barrier Reef ...
Ben Cropp, who has almost 60 years' experience diving and filming the Reef, has produced about 150 marine and wildlife documentaries and discovered more than 100 shipwrecks. The Trinity Park resident ...
Far North shipwreck hunter Ben Cropp has celebrated his 84th birthday by discovering a mystery vessel, believed to be about 150 years old, on the Great Barrier Reef. The Wonga Beach-based underwater ...
A GOLD Coast couple who found romance under the sea among sharks, sea snakes and giant eels was to be married at Coolangatta. The romance began in late 1966 when Main Beach underwater film producer, ...
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared 50 years ago today. But just weeks after his death, a Gold Coast filmmaker got a letter from beyond the grave. That was the experience of famed ...
A FILMMAKER claims to have found fresh evidence of a sunken Spanish galleon and Portuguese exploration on the Great Barrier Reef. Spanish dollars salvaged from a wreck site off the tip of Cape York, a ...
A shipwreck hunter has launched a new expedition to search for a sunken Spanish galleon and engraved stone lost in Queensland that, if found, could rewrite Australia's history. Veteran documentary ...
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared 50 years ago today. But just weeks after his death, a Gold Coast filmmaker got a letter from beyond the grave. That was the experience of famed ...