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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Gary Mills grew up in Fish Hoek and developed a passion for the sea from a young age through

spending most weekends game-fishing on the family boat. After national service he started
WSCUBA diving and in 1979 started a commercial salvage diving business specialising in the

raising of sunken vessels. He has successfully undertaken numerous high profile salvage

contracts on foreign registered ships. His fascination with shipwreck diving was inspired by
the tenacity and endurance of treasure hunter Mel Fisher who spent almost 20 years searching

for the wreck of the Atocha. Gary has spent over 40 years researching and searching for missing
shipwrecks along the Cape coast and has successfully located numerous forgotten wrecks. At

present he is involved in several exciting new projects in the field. He is a Commercial Dive

Supervisor and RYA Yacht Master Offshore Skipper, residing in Fish Hoek, Cape Town.

Contact: salvagediving@gmail.com

Barrie Gasson is a life-long resident of St. James whose grand-parents settled here in 1918.

He was a co-founder of the Kalk Bay Historical Association in 1995, together with John Moyle
and Andy Smith. He has edited the Bulletin since inception and contributed numerous articles.

He has been a senior lecturer and researcher in town and regional planning at UCT since 1973.

Contact: gasson@sybaweb.co.za

Steve Herbert, after years in international insurance management, settled in Kalk Bay in 1996.

He has had a long association with Kalk Bay through his wife Judy’s Goles and Delbridge
families. They live in Windsor Road in the house built by Arthur Goles in 1928. He has been

on the KBHA committee since 1997 and has contributed a number of talks and published two
family histories.

Contact: arcadia@49er.co.za