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Just the thing to go chasing kingies in the harbour...In your car!!
This from today's S.M.H.
Bond underwater fantasy becomes fact
In The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond takes his sports car underwater, swaps his wheels for fins and fires a missile that knocks a pursuing helicopter out of the sky.
Roger Moore's feats as the iconic British spy may be difficult to match, but a Swiss company says it has created a vehicle that really can turn into a submarine - though without the firearms.
The concept car developer Rinspeed calls its "sQuba" the first real submersible car. Unlike military vehicles, which can only drive slowly on a lakebed, Rinspeed says its car can provide a stable "flight" at a depth of 10 metres.
"For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly underwater," says Frank Rinderknecht, Rinspeed's 52-year-old CEO and a professed Bond fan. "Now we have made this dream come true."
The car will be unveiled at next month's Geneva Auto Show.
Rinderknecht says it is difficult to make a car watertight and pressure-resistant enough to be maneuverable underwater. "The real challenge, however, was to create a submersible car that moves like a fish in water," he added.
Working with engineering specialists, Rinspeed removed the combustion engine from a sports car and replaced it with several electrical motors. Three are located in the rear, with one providing propulsion on land and the other driving the screw for underwater motoring.
Passengers will be able to keep breathing underwater through an integrated tank of compressed air similar to what is used in scuba diving.
But they will get wet.
"For safety reasons we have built the vehicle as an open car so that the occupants can get out quickly in an emergency," Rinderknecht said.
Here's a link to some photos on the maufacturer's website:
http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba-fotos.htm
Cheers,
Pete.
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First in, best dressed for the ones available at the social....I'll find out when more are coming for anyone who misses out.
See Donna or Stewy when you register on the morning for the ones available now.
Cheers,
Pete.
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I believe there are only 12 brag mats available at present and they will be for sale at the Kingy Social.
I'm sure more can be ordered later, but stocks are limited at present.
Hats and stickers will also be available at the social.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Top little session BM
HB's are next on my list of things to try after I have mastered SP's fully.
I have a few in the tackle box, so might just give one or two a shot
at my next lake session.
That last bream is very respectable, as is the lizard.
Well done...definitely worth getting up before the chooks eh?
Cheers,
Pete.
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Great vids guys...Who, me envious???
Too bloody right!!!
Well done to everyone on board..that would be fun.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Good rule of thumb there Roberta.
Respect your fellow fisho and hopefully, he'll respect you in return.
Cheers,
Pete.
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How good is THAT!!!
Some great pics and can't wait for the vids to appear now.
Might have to do a bit of bleeping on the vids audio by the sound of things.
That shot of all the pennants says it all. Well done.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Two new shark species found
Two new species of wobbegongs, otherwise known as carpet sharks, have been found in Western Australian waters.
WA Department of Fisheries shark researcher Justin Chidlow said there were now eight known wobbegong shark species in Australia.
The new floral banded wobbegong has been spotted between Geraldton and Augusta and the new dwarf spotted wobbegong was found in shark fishery catches between Green Head and Mandurah, Mr Chidlow said.
Wobbegongs, which are often sold in fish shops under the name of carpet shark, are probably the most common shark species seen by divers.
"It's amazing to think that the new species have been present off our coast, but that it's only now that they have been formally identified as separate and been added to the list of known wobbegong species," he said.
"Wobbegongs were not as sleek looking as some of the better-known sharks and the new species helped reinforce the importance of the continental shelf off WA as an area where a large range of wobbegong species could be encountered."
The colour of the floral banded species is mainly dark brown with yellowish blotches on the upper surface and white on the underbelly, whereas the adult of the dwarf spotted wobbegong was a lighter yellowish brown with large white blotches on top and creamy coloured underneath.
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Nice to see you reporting good things in your old stomping ground Pete!
Dont know about this plastic thing you have going.........youve turned to the darkside
I thought the only reason you weren't catching fish was because you couldn't find your Rod!. Possibly leaving it behind in Team Upyago's boat. Actually you obviously didn't leave it there because old Rosco wouldnt have remembered where he put the boat anyway!
Its really sad when you get old...........
Cheers,
Stumpy
Darkside indeed... I'm in to whatever works..and at my age..things that still work are a huge bonus
Ross isn't old Stumpy...he's just like me...Chronologically gifted!
And remember...Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
Pete.
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Interesting reading once more Peter. Maybe it won't be all that long before the likes of Wilson and Norman and others market something to allow fishermen to pull their baits away from undersize fish, unsavoury characters and reef freeks
Cheers
jewgaffer
GoFish had a video camera setup in their store a while back that you dropped down and could monitor the fish at your bait...pretty nifty device and you could see which ooglie was about to devour your prized livie.
I see one on ebay that's very similar... don't know how good they are though.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Fishing-Monitor-sys...9QQcmdZViewItem
A bit like cheating if you ask me though.
Cheers,
Pete.
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World's biggest fish gets a black-box flight recorder
February 13, 2008 This year the secret life of one of the Earth’s largest and most mysterious creatures, the whale shark, will be laid bare for the first time when some of the gentle giants off Western Australia’s coral Ningaloo coast are equipped with "black box flight recorders".
The project is the result of a collaboration between two Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise – Australian Brad Norman who set up the world’s first photo-ID system for identifying whale sharks and Briton Rory Wilson, who has developed the world’s most sophisticated device for monitoring the activity of animals in the wild.
Wilson says his logger, which weighs only 30-48 grams, is like an aircraft black-box flight recorder that monitors changes in speed, altitude and heading. At its heart is a tiny electronic device that measures changes in an animal’s acceleration in every direction – forward/back, up/down or sideways. This accelerometer measures motion along all three axes up to 32 times a second, and, combined with a compass, determines the animal’s speed, direction and position. It can do many things that widely-used animal tracking systems using GPS (Global Positioning System) cannot, such as operate in dense forest, underground or in the ocean.
All animals spend energy to keep warm, digest food, and maintain vital functions like breathing and pumping blood – but movement requires energy expenditure ten times higher. “An animal that’s not expending energy is dead,” Wilson says. Animals burn glucose to generate energy, consuming oxygen in the process, so by measuring an animal’s oxygen intake in a sealed chamber called a respirometer, scientists can estimate how much energy it consumes just staying alive and warm, and how much it requires while walking, running or swimming.
Wilson and his colleagues have already used the logger to record energy expenditure in wild cormorants, and were thrilled when their data corresponded to the figure predicted from trials determining the average oxygen consumption of five great cormorants tested in a respirometer. Zoologists can now use Wilson’s black box to estimate how much energy an animal expends flying, swimming, hunting, digging, feeding, fighting or mating. Adding these figures to the baseline energy needed to stay alive and warm gives a reliable estimate of the species’ total energy expenditure.
This information will revolutionise wildlife studies. By measuring the energy content of a species’ natural diet, zoologists will know how much time a carnivore must spend hunting, or how long a herbivore must graze, to keep up its strength, grow and successfully breed – the ultimate aim of the game of life. “A successful animal,” says Wilson, “is one that takes in a lot more energy than it expends. Many conservation issues involve animals that are expending too much energy. Energy for an animal is like money for a human, but if an animal overdraws its budget, it dies. We haven’t had a way of measuring energy expenditure in wild animals before.”
Data about animals’ energy expenditure will help conservationists understand what constitutes poor, average or optimum living conditions, or what minimum area is needed for an individual or population of animals to survive and do well. The logger could help resolve important conservation questions - such as whether climate change, predation or over-fishing in its hunting grounds is responsible for an observed decline in the case of of the African penguin.
Wilson and fellow zoologists have recently tested the black box on species in Argentina, including imperial cormorants and armadillos. The device has also been trialled on wild beavers in Norway and the badgers of Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire, England. And closer to home, Wilson’s own the family pet, a Border Collie named Moon, has been the "guinea pig" in providing a conveniently co-operative test animal.
The importance of Wilson’s device is highlighted by the insights gained on the Oxfordshire badgers, which are of interest to those studying the evolution of social behaviour. Professor David Macdonald, of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, has been observing these badgers since the 1970s, making them amongst the world’s most intensively studied carnivores, but Macdonald has always had difficulty tracking their detailed movements at night and observing their behaviour underground.
“Key to the issue,” he says, “is the detail of where the badgers forage and where they scent mark, and Rory Wilson’s amazing invention reveals both. This information will not only help us understand the evolution of the badgers’ mysterious social life, but will also be relevant to public health officials who need to understand their role in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. The data we will gather in collaboration with Rory Wilson will therefore be not only interesting, but also practically useful.”
Wilson hopes his device will unlock many of the secrets of animal behaviour. Not only will it help save animals facing extinction now, it will also provide valuable data on many species almost certain to be threatened in the future. The beneficiaries of his project are, he says, “the unthinkable number of animals that need to be properly understood now, tomorrow and in 20 years’ time.”
Initial trials on whale sharks at Ningaloo were staged in 2007 to see if the device could be delivered by a diver and would stay in place long enough to collect useful data about the giant fish’s still largely mysterious habits – where it feeds, breeds and goes when it is out of sight of humans in the deep oceans. They were successful, and the team now hopes to start collecting real data on whale shark behaviour in 2008, says Brad Norman.
He and Wilson met for the first time at the Rolex Awards ceremony in Singapore in October 2006 when they were individually honoured for their inspirational projects to study and protect the planet’s wildlife. Both being interested in finding ways to monitor wild animals, they hit it off immediately and vowed to work together.
Brad’s research uses a breakthrough photo analysis technique that he developed with a computer engineer and an astronomer linked to NASA, based on the unique pattern of white spots on the hide of every whale shark. A photograph of these spots acts as a visual ‘tag’ that allows scientists to recognize, record and track each individual. This innovative approach of automating the analysis of pattern data utilizing a technique for mapping star patterns also promises to open up a new world in animal studies. Brad says he has already received interest from researchers working with more than 30 other species, including manta rays, whales, dolphins, turtles, African wild dogs, lions and cheetahs.
To take his technique worldwide, Brad founded ECOCEAN, a not-for-profit conservation group that manages an extensive photo-identification database on the Internet (see www.whaleshark.org). In an innovative way to engage the global community, he is encouraging divers and tourists across the world as ‘citizen scientists’ to submit their dive photos of whale sharks to the database. Some 12,000 photographs of whale sharks from 38 countries have so far been added to the database, revealing 1150 individual whale sharks to date. At the same time the project has raised global awareness of an animal rates by the Each new image helps compile a global map of where whale sharks live and their migratory patterns. Contributors receive notice by email of all past and further sightings of ‘their’ shark. Together, the images are helping to build a global picture of the abundance, health, range and fluctuations of the whale shark population. “Just about anyone with a disposable underwater camera can now play a part in helping to conserve whale sharks, and so help to monitor the health of the oceans,” Norman explains. “It gives people a direct stake in whale shark stewardship.”
With the Rolex Award money, Brad Norman is devoting two years full-time to his project, training local authorities, tourism operators and 20 research assistants around the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans to observe, record and protect whale sharks.
Among his great successes was helping to convince the governments of India, the Philippines and recently Taiwan to officially end the slaughter of whale sharks. The Taiwan ban comes into full force this year (2008). As a result of lobbying by Brad and others, no government in the world now actively sanctions the hunting of the giant fish – though local fishermen still prey on it.
“The whale shark is worth saving – and we can do something about it,” Brad says. “It is a big, beautiful and charismatic animal, and not dangerous. It is a perfect flagship for the health of the oceans.”
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Nice effort to move around and persevere in those conditions Pete.
Have you found the sweet spot in pausing and twitching soft plastics where you sense a fish is going to take it and then it happens ? It feels like a moment of getting the timing sweet and imparting a split second of the right swimming action, but many casts go unrewarded until you repeat the exact pause and slight twitch and bingo you hook up again. It feels as though nature is doing its part and putting it all together provided that you do it right.
Cheers
jewgaffer
That's exacly it Byron..well put.
It took me ages to get the hang of that but once you get in the "groove", it all comes together nicely.
I'm into a "rattle" of the rod tip at the moment instead of a "twitch" and have found that to be productive.
It's great experimenting with different techniques..some days it works, other not, so I vary the action
until I find which one works on the day.
Cheers,
Pete.
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A top little session and a big
to the forums.Nice table fish in that lot. Yummo!
Looking forward to some more good reports like that.
Great news that the dollies are coming in close.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Great report PJ and not a bad result.
Nothing like a lightning fishing trip and back home before work to get the blood pumping.
Well done fellas.
Cheers,
Pete.
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............ very deceiving
Amazing stuff too..It is absolutely invisible when it's underwater. Now ya see it..Now ya don't!
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excellent stuff Pete good to see the fish finally come to the party.
Out of interest what kind of braid are you running???
im guessing yellow FINS but from the photo it looks a bit orange/gold
cheers
CFD
No mate, it's 6lb vanish mono
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hi pete
good to see someone else fishing in these windy conditions
have you tried black hard bodied lures when the water has a lot of fresh in it ? or even black sps
it worked for me a few years ago when the water was like coffee black hard bodies with rattles in them
i fished mona vale this morn 8.30 for ziltch my luderick rod looked like i was hooked up all the time but it was the 20 knot southerly bending my rod [had the wind behind me]
peter
That flattie was taken on a black paddle tail squidgie with glitter Peter.
I've had some success lately in the dirty water with mostly black placcies. The brightly coloured ones just don't do diddly I've found.
You were keen luderick fishing off the rocks in this wind mate.
I don't mind some rain, but this southerly wind is shutting things down bigtime.
Cheers,
Pete.
thats a nice looking flathead, better than what ive achieved with plastics the last few outings with these windy conditions
G'day Raii,
I've only just started using SPs as I have been a bait only fisho all my life.
Many an outing I gave up in disgust and switched back to bait swearing they just don't work for me.
It takes some patience to begin with, but it all starts to come together with practice.
Keep at it mate and it will suddenly all just click.
Cheers and good luck with the placs.
Pete.
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Looks like that little stradic is gettin a good workout too!!
cheers mate
steve
Sure is Steve...Great little reel and has accounted for quite a few fish, just not lately.
Cheers,
Pete
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After going fishless with Team Upyago and having fished every day since for big old donuts....I was having second thoughts that it was just ME!
I've hit Narra lake every day this week for bugger all using every sort of plastic known to man (or at least all I have) and have come up empty.
The closest I got was yesterday when I got a huge bustoff by a very large flattie by not using a leader..stupid me!
I looked at seabreeze this arvo and saw it was blowing a southerly at 21 knots Yikes!
...not the sort of fishing weather I had in mind. Bugger it I thought..I've at least gotta try, so off I trotted down to Pipeclay Point and it was low tide and the sandbar was exposed for the first time since the deluges happened.It was blowing like crazy and made it tough to even cast a placcie 10 yards and lots of exposed seagrass which made life even harder.
After not getting even so much as a nibble there, I packed up and moved around to the end of Robertson St where the wind was at least side on but still fierce.
Throw a few SP's about and FINALLY hook up to a lonely 40cm flattie
That's all I needed to lift my confidence again. A quick pic and put him back to grow a bit more.
Came home a lot happier than when I left.
Here's a couple of pics of the flattie that saved my sanity.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Hello,
Will there be Fishraider stickers and other bits and pieces to purchase at the social?
Yes Dan, they should all be available at the social. hats, stickers, FR bragmats etc.
Cheers,
Pete.
hello
yer put me down in the boat
what time and location?
I'll bring a few gargo bags for the clean up
u need any bread?
Ok, you have been added...Thanks for the garbo bags...We are OK for bread as Admin have already ordered
it for the social.
Read Here for the official rules, start/finish times etc and the attendees list.
Cheers,
Pete.
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I just had a call from North Sydney Council to advise that
the tap at the Tunks Park fish cleaning table is now FIXED
It certainly pays to keep calling to get action.
A big thank you to Nth. Sydney Council for their prompt action and pleasant conversations.
Now all we need is some fish to clean!!
Cheers,
Pete.
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Now that's a fast thinking man.
Nice wordsmithing there Stumpy!
Cheers,
Pete.
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I made the mistake yesterday in Narra Lake of tying on a lure straight onto my 6lb vanish as I usually use a leader of 10 or 12lb flourocarbon now. ( I must have been having a senior moment)
2nd cast and WHACK! a huuuge flattie takes the placcie and when I put some pressure on her, she does a nice barrel roll and PING!
Straight back to the car to rig up properly with the leader. Lesson learned the hard way
Went back to wading but couldn't raise another fish.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Well said Slinky...I couldn't agree more.
Cheers,
Pete.
to the forums.
...not the sort of fishing weather I had in mind. Bugger it I thought..I've at least gotta try, so off I trotted down to Pipeclay Point and it was low tide and the sandbar was exposed for the first time since the deluges happened.
Rose Bay Boat Ramp
in Boating
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Hi Nixmel,
I don't know if the steet even has a name but here is a map...it's the road that loops around in a circle.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Pete.
The yellow "untitled placemark" pin is the actual boatramp.