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    Free Diving to Fame and Fortune

    By Tony Buxton

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    Freediving in the early 1950s
    Offering his services as an underwater diving guide in Sri Lanka in the early 1950s, he was in high demand by wealthy celebrities, seeking new interests, especially spearfishing. Many invited him to their homes, leading to a lifestyle and fame that he hardly imagined. The diversity of his freediving experiences is fascinating. As the first person to dive in The Maldives, Thailand and Southern India, he became a diving legend. He won the national spearfishing Championships and then went on to take first place in the British team at the World Championships in Malta in 1959.
    Jaques Cousteau offered him employment and Hans Haas invited him to join his expedition to the Maldives and Nicobar Islands. In 1965 he set out to sail around the world on a Chinese junk filmed by award-winning underwater photographer Ben Kropp and dived on unknown Pacific reefs with famed explorer Jacques Dumas. Finally, he became a hugely successful commercial diver in Singapore. The different underwater work that he performed was astounding, including a joint venture with Exxon, resulting in a fortune he never anticipated. He bought a leading hotel in Pattaya, Thailand and set up the first PADI diving outfit in the country. Branching out into many other businesses, he led a flamboyant lifestyle, counting Kings, Presidents and well-known film stars among his friends. Amazingly, he hardly ever used SCUBA for his work, but entirely through free diving achieved a lifestyle all but impossible today. Anyone interested in diving, especially freediving should read this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTony Buxton
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781370257614
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    Free Diving to Fame and Fortune
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    Tony Buxton

    Tony Buxton was born in 1931 in Sri Lanka. He went back to England during the war and eventually returned to Sri Lanka in the early 50s. There he developed a passion for exploring underwater, before the event of SCUBA. He made a living spear fishing as well as being an underwater guide, during which time many rich and famous people, including local politicians used his services. He was the first person to dive in the Maldives and southern India. He won the Ceylon National spear fishing Championships in 1959, and then went on to the world Championships in Malta where he came first on the British team.  After the event, he was invited by Jaques Cousteau to meet him in Monaco, and some years later Cousteau invited him to join him on an expedition to the Indian Ocean.  Leaving Sri Lanka in 1963, he went to Thailand where he was the first person to dive there, and he founded the Thailand sub aqua club. In 1965 he was invited by award-winning underwater photographer Ben Crop to star in his film "Challenge of the sea". During the filming, he explored unknown reefs in the Pacific with well-known underwater explorer Jaques Dumas. Eventually, he moved to Singapore and set up a highly profitable commercial diving venture with Exxon  (Esso) underwater cleaning ships. His years of diving to considerable depths without scuba eventually affected his health, and he had to curtail his diving. He took up the sport of polo with the same passion he had for diving. Playing in international tournaments he achieved a Polo handicap of +2 and was eventually invited to play on one of the Malay sultans teams and lived in one of their palaces in Malaysia. After a serious accident playing polo, he retired to Thailand where he lives now.

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