[1][3] They were credited with being pioneers in several areas, including being the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage.
[4][5][6] Taylor's first major underwater film production, The Shark Hunters (1962), was made with diving and business partner Ben Cropp.
[4][7] In 1964, he made the Slaughter at Saumarez, the first Australian diving adventure to the Coral Sea aboard professional fishing boat Riversong with free divers John Harding, Bob Grounds and Ron Zangari with Captain Wally Muller.
[8] In 1974, the Taylors, assisted by Rodney Fox (above water), filmed the live shark underwater sequences for Jaws.
[4] The Taylors, inspired by Cairns game fishing charter boat captain Peter Bristow, lobbied via the media, the Queensland Government and National Parks to have the potato cod of Cormorant Pass near Lizard Island protected.
They were the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage or anything else during the making of the series Blue Wilderness, Episode, Shark Shocker in January 1992, a huge milestone in ocean exploration together with South Africans Theo Ferreira, Craig Ferreira, George Askew and Piet van der Walt, founders of the South African great white shark cage diving industry.