We don’t know what depth Diana Garcia reached in 1961. Kathy Troutt established her world record, the deepest for a girl on scuba a few years later in 1964 (three weeks before her 17th birthday).
Mondo Sommerso (World underwater) was a major Italian monthly magazine from 1959 to 2012. The Minnewater Monster’ (1968) photo by JH Harding and Great White Shark (1965) by RJ Taylor were two Australian covers.
Teenage underwater model who set a world scuba depth record for women using compressed air when aged 16. Appeared in advertisements, magazine covers, TV shows and made appearances in feature films and TV series. Also a body stand-in for Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon (some say 40% of the movie features Kathy)! Today lives in Queensland, Australia with her brother Jeff, and 3 cats, three dogs, many aquarium fish and many exotic parrots - which she breeds. An episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was written especially to include Kathy - a real life marine biologist at the time.
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