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November 16, 2017
Great, scalloped or smooth? How to identify a hammerhead shark
As a South Australian snorkeler, typically drawn to shallow, inshore waters, I haven’t had first-hand contact with hammerhead sharks. As a child I found them fascinating; their distinctive T-shaped heads an apparent freak of evolution. In 2014 my interest in hammerhead sharks was renewed. That year, Western Australia introduced a shark culling policy in response to a number of human... Read morePosted in Sharks & Rays | By Dan Monceaux
December 4, 2014
Seen a shark in SA waters? Report it for safety and science
When I discuss sharks with divers or snorkellers, they tend to agree that shark sightings of any species are a rarity in SA- at least off metropolitan beaches and at popular dive sites. In something of an anomaly, a single Great White Shark (whether it was the same individual on both occasions is unknown) was encountered by divers twice this... Read morePosted in Citizen Science, Sharks & Rays | By Dan Monceaux
November 21, 2014
Great white shark sightings at the Glenelg tyre reef in 2014
A pair of divers from the Adelaide University Scuba Club came face to face with a White pointer shark while diving at the Glenelg tyre reef in South Australia on 9th November. Although the shark came a little too close for comfort for Jan Busch and Mark Sutcliffe, Jan was at least able to take a few photographs of it. Details... Read morePosted in Sharks & Rays | By Steve Reynolds
November 21, 2014
Common Sawshark & Green Sawfish sightings off Glenelg
Sawfish and sawsharks are very rarely sighted by divers in South Australian waters. Diver Alex Suslin had an exciting encounter with a Common Sawshark, Pristiophorus cirratus at the Glenelg Dredge about 9am on 13th November 2014. He described the event as the first sighting of one he’d made in almost 20 years of diving. Alex estimates that he had dived that site approximately 100 times... Read morePosted in Sharks & Rays | By Steve Reynolds
September 5, 2014
Thoughts from Adelaide’s second rally against the Western Australian Shark Cull
When I was asked to speak at Adelaide’s 2nd public demonstration in opposition to the Western Australian shark cull, I seized the opportunity. Prior to the first national day of action in January, I had concluded that the Barnett/Buswell ‘catch and kill’ policy was inhumane, unnecessary and unscientific. As an independent researcher, documentary filmmaker and marine conservationist, I was more than... Read morePosted in Events, Sharks & Rays | By Dan Monceaux
May 23, 2014
May 9, 2014
Species list: Sharks, rays and skates of Upper Spencer Gulf
A variety of elasmobranchs can be found in the waters of Upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia. In 2008, the Olympic Dam Expansion EIS was published. The document housed the following data in Appendix O2. Sighting records had been aggregated from a variety of sources. These records have been represented here, in anticipation of the first Whyalla Underwater Shootout in June 2014.... Read morePosted in Sharks & Rays | By Dan Monceaux