Abalone divers are among the last of the hunter-gatherers. They live by their wits, their unrelenting hard labour and hard-won experience. Their workplace is beneath the sea, in an almost pristine wilderness. It is an independent life tempered by ever-present risk, from the 'bends', to nitrogen narcosis, known as 'the raptures of the deep', and of course sharks. Fifteen experienced men share their memories, from the time of the first frozen exports in the early 1960s to the present time.

Garry Kerr DVDs - titles 

• Tasmania's Southern Forest
• Abalone Diving Tasmania
• Crayfishing around Tasmania: A fisherman's perspective
  
• The Last Cape Horners
• The Pearl Shell Divers
• Piner's Archive: Stories from Tasmania's wild rivers
• Two men in a punt: In the wake of the Huon Piners
• Trading out of Stanley
• Wooden ships and Stockmen: Bass Strait Islands