grey nurse breeding cave?
hi guys , we went to mandurah for the weekend and went out saturday and sunday we caught some smallish pinks and heaps of small Dhu"s (released) a few sambo"s on plastics and generally had a few cans and didn"t get too serious but most interestingly at one spot 21 mile off mandurah we anchored on a lump that came from 36 to 25m and while two of us fished plastics and floaters my brother and brother in law and another mate fished the bottom at anchor and within 1/2 an hour had 2 biteoffs then 2 ,70/80 cm queenies (released) then a double hookup that resulted in 2 grey nurse sharks arond 2.2m long , five minutes after this my other mate hooked up on my 20,000 stella and gets his ass handed to him for about 10 minutes by a grey nurse about the size of the ones at aqua aquarium LOL! anyway all were released and we moved so we didn't hook any more of them. now the limited amount i know about grey nurse sharks tells me that we must have anchored over a cave? and if any divers or someone with an interest in these sharks (protected species?) would like the co ords i would be happy to give them to you.
cheers
Gully
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Unreal matae - I have one
Unreal mate - I have one similar spot that I have dived off Hillarys and it is really something else.
Although I have only seen sharks up to about 2m there so no real big ones.
Nice work
Pete D
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Nice offer
Sounds awesome Ryan. Pm away please....I'll be a very old man, by the time I hook up with Gully to film his spot...hehehe
Cheers Pete
Gully
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Pffft free weekends will
Pffft free weekends will start becoming more regular now Pete!!
Tony Halliday
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com eon Pete, just got me
com eon Pete, just got me new diving gear all sorted, you need a SAFFA into to the introductions between you and raggy-tooth grey nurse.. ????
:-)
count me in on the dive, love th buggers.
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Reece C
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would love to have a dive
would love to have a dive with these amazing creatures.
coords would be greatly appreciated.
Reece
Ryan C
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GRY NURSE CAVE?
I hads no idea there were that many of you crazy bastards out there !!!!! i like to stay on top of the water but i'm happy to give the spot to you guys i'd definately like to see thye photo's though!!! pm's tomorrow morning lads ,cheers till,gully ,pete d ,carnarvonite,and reece c,. offer of co-ords now closed
mattg6020 (not verified)
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sorry to be neg, but i would
sorry to be neg, but i would personally keep it on the down low.
All it takes if for a few greeny's to find out and before you know it there will be a sanctuary zone and a 3 mile exclusion zone around the area and no fishing at all. Plus what ever reefs in the surrounding area they turn into sanctuary zones also.
I've seen it happened over east in NSW and SE-QLD and it won't be long before it happens here.
JMO
cheers
carnarvonite
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Grey nurses
There has never been a shortage of grey nurses off the WA coast. Unlike over east where they have heaps more reef in close to shore WA's is patchy and not nearly as rugged making the nurses stay well offshore and out of the reaches of divers. Back in the fifties, sixties and seventies when scuba diving really took off and all sharks were treated as deadly enemies and shot on sight. With them being well out the population of nurses has stayed reasonably healthy and according to a talk I had with a top fisheries shark scientist could possibly have avoided going on the national protection register when it was introduced years back.
mattg6020 (not verified)
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No probs guys. There are
No probs guys.
There are still plenty of nurses over east, actually thousands instead of the few hundred they proclaim. They are just on different reefs that the divers don't know about but the spero's and fisho's do. Just don't say anything for fear of being lock out.
Cheers
carnarvonite
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Breeding
One of the main problems unlike most other sharks the grey nurse only gives birth to one pup at a time, there are three embryos to start off with but the bigger one eats the others in the womb to get enough nourishment to grow.
Ryan C
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grey nurse spot
i agree mate thats why i said offer of co ords closed i started to think it was getting a bit out of hand but the handful of people that are getting the spot are pretty well known on here so i'll leave it at that. cheers
crasny1
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Another fantastic cave just north of wedge
About a hundred meters swim off the beach. Down to a ledge (kept secret) and there is a large gray always in the cave. It has an entrange and exit, and you swim in one way, see the tail and its all good, swim in the other and you are face by an evil looking set of Raggy teeth. She comes out for a feed and it is truely awesome.
Not good to take novices out there as the water turns brown fast. Still one of my all time favourite dive spots, even though not diving anymore due to a wheeze developing at 20m on a dive. Not risking my life now.
Neels
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