Career
At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the "Guinness book of records" for the longest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air for 320 feet off Sydney Harbor with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. In 1973, Kathy was asked to be the model for a David Wayne sculpture "Girl with the dolphin" next to Tower Bridge in London.Kathy Troutt was a diving model for cinematographer and underwater film producer Ben Cropp Department of Administration and Management in 1965, appearing in "Mermaids in Paradise" a 30-minute documentary made for and shown world-wide on television Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965
Sports clothes and glamor model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) the marine biologist.
Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp
Worked in pantomime London, England where she trained dolphins for movies.
She was spotted by a representative of director, Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin. Later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon where Troutt played body-double for Brook Shields.
Followed by work as a crew member with Return to the Blue Lagoon and later several other feature films produced in Australia and Asia.