JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Specially for JonC, a few more screen shots from Xmas day, even a dog fish for Andy🙃 Geoff and Andy135 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Are they nurse sharks @JDP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 36 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said: Are they nurse sharks @JDP? Yes mate grey nurse, supposed to be endangered but we have very good numbers of them here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Saintly Fish said: Are they nurse sharks @JDP? You certainly know your sharks. Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Cracking photos! Thanks for sharing 👍 Geoff and JDP 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 1 hour ago, JonC said: You certainly know your sharks. I know the ones we see regularly but when you get up to the tropics there are so many species it gets pretty difficult. The last few years have seen big increases in sharks over our local reefs, perhaps because of the failing marine parks . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 @JDPI'd like to see a pic of you swimming with great whites please. Nurse sharks are a bit of a cop out! Geoff, Andy135 and JDP 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Saintly Fish said: @JDPI'd like to see a pic of you swimming with great whites please. Nurse sharks are a bit of a cop out! There have been plenty over the last few weeks, with many of the dive and snorkel charters being cancelled because of them. We've had a few close calls from them or should I say my daughter has. It seems there's almost weekly incidents theses days around the country where someone has been bitten. Ive had friends killed by them commercialy diving for abalone, its certainly a risk which seems to be on the increase, especially spearing around a 4000 strong seal colony. A mako estimated to be close to 400kg has beed feeding on a few seals lately too, not that Ive seen it but plenty of others have. I carry bleeding trauma kits and hope I never have to use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, JDP said: There have been plenty over the last few weeks, with many of the dive and snorkel charters being cancelled because of them. We've had a few close calls from them or should I say my daughter has. It seems there's almost weekly incidents theses days around the country where someone has been bitten. Ive had friends killed by them commercialy diving for abalone, its certainly a risk which seems to be on the increase, especially spearing around a 4000 strong seal colony. A mako estimated to be close to 400kg has beed feeding on a few seals lately too, not that Ive seen it but plenty of others have. I carry bleeding trauma kits and hope I never have to use them. How about a quick selfie then? Not a full blown pose ! will win you the internet for the rest of the year!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said: How about a quick selfie then? Not a full blown pose ! will win you the internet for the rest of the year!! Now theres a deal you can't refuse! that's hardly worth it! Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 26 minutes ago, suzook12 said: Now theres a deal you can't refuse! that's hardly worth it! Just imagine the kudos total @JDPwould collect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Would cut down on funeral costs I guess JDP and Saintly Fish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 54 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said: How about a quick selfie then? Not a full blown pose ! will win you the internet for the rest of the year!! Its rare for me to even take a camera these days, the only reason I had one on Xmas day was to film the new Garmin decent mk2 from one of my daughters sponsors. I think we have only dived together a handful of times all year now she's busy skippering charters. This is a clip from one of the lads I take out occasionally and spears with my daughter. At one point he's watching dolphin fish when the great white sneaks up under him!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 Here's a small one my daughter filmed a few years back. DINOBOY, Geoff and Saintly Fish 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captin slows old outlaw Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 i renumber being at addu atoll some r a f guise took us to the reef , you could make out the sharks swimming just off the reef , the fish wore amazing to look at JDP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DINOBOY Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 On 12/26/2021 at 1:13 PM, JDP said: Here's a small one my daughter filmed a few years back. I stayed a few days in narooma back in 2000 absolutely loved it. The guys in the top tackle shop told me about the last uk anglers they saw before me who hired a load of gear to catch the giant rays off the slipway. ‘Bloody crazy pommies’ they laughed. 🤣🤣 Geoff and JDP 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 1 hour ago, DINOBOY said: I stayed a few days in narooma back in 2000 absolutely loved it. The guys in the top tackle shop told me about the last uk anglers they saw before me who hired a load of gear to catch the giant rays off the slipway. ‘Bloody crazy pommies’ they laughed. 🤣🤣 Thats what I did when I first moved here, you soon get fed up of hooking giant stingrays though!!!!....the same guy still owns the tackle store but moved in down on the flat part of town. Its a great part of the world to live and only a couple of hours from the snowy mountains, so in some ways similar to being back home if I want to freeze my tits off!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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