Early Life
Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait region of far-north Queensland, Australia in 1929. His great grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica and his great grandmother a chief's daughter from New Caledonia. Another grandfather came from the island of Nuie in Polynesia. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Seaman Dan worked as a boat captain and pearl diver - gathering pearl and trochus shells across the north of Australia. He also did jobs such as mineral prospecting and taxi driving.
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