Crealock, in the Brixham Trawler Arthur Rogers, captained by Tom Hepworth, reported a pass into the lagoon.

Hepworth attempted entrance but was temporarily hung up in the shallow pass requiring use of a winch to gain entry into the lagoon.

William Ion Belton Crealock was a sailor, sailing navigator, yacht designer, and author.

As reported by Crealock (1955:205-207): "For the next three days we surveyed the pass from the dingy, working during the few hours of slack water; we had learned by now that in normal weather the current in these lagoons will slacken off towards high and low water, and that there might even be a slight in-going current for an hour or so.

The bed of the pass, we discovered, was smoothed by the current, with coral growths no larger than cabbages on gently undulating slopes."