David Harrison Jones grew up in Tadmore and then Picton, where he did a boatbuilding apprenticeship before becoming a commercial fisherman. He worked out of Wakatahuri, Stewart Island and Havelock and settled permanently at Wakatahuri where he became involved in shipbreaking with the Wells brothers. In later years he turned to mussel farming and trans-Tasman voyaging, making trips to Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu as well as extensively cruising the coastline of New Zealand in his 42ft fishing vessel Kelvin. Martin Berthold is a former photojournalist whose article about the Wells brothers and their 1950s Wakatahuri ship breaking venture, The Sounds Wrecking Company, was first published in NZ Marine News in 2009.