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Fishing for Fame
Freshwater fishers will have a chance to catch more than a fish this summer if they enter a fishing photography competition. NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and the Freshwater Recreational Fishing Trust have teamed up to run the competition, which will see 12 of the best fishing photos published in a special 2010 calendar. The theme for the competition is ‘Freshwater recreational fishing and all that it is to you’. Entry is easy. Photographers can enter online, or through the post. Given the proposed shape of the calendar, horizontal pictures will have a better chance of selection. Photographs must be sent in by 30 July 2009 in time for selection. There are 12 prize packages to be won (all currently valued at more than $800), one for each photo to be featured in the calendar. Every entrant will also receive a free fishing lure. More details can be found on the DPI Fisheries web site at: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recreational/freshwater-fishing/competition.
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Recreational fishiers in for a treat with Lake Conjola Artificial Reef
Recreational fishers will get their 4th artificial reef this month, the latest reef being installed in Lake Conjola. The reef will be made up of 400 concrete modules known as ‘Reef Balls’, which can be moved, or removed, if necessary. This is the first NSW DPI artificial reef that will use three different sized Reef Balls which is expected to create a complex reef. NSW DPI deploys artificial reefs in areas that are lacking in reef habitat. The reefs provide a place for fish to live and shelter, and potentially redirect fishing effort from more traditional fishing areas. Previous DPI studies have shown that artificial reefs attract a large variety of popular recreational fish species such as flathead, bream, tarwhine, snapper, leatherjacket and whiting. Artificial reefs have already been installed in St Georges Basin, Botany Bay and Lake Macquarie, with other potential locations currently under investigation including Merimbula Lake.
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Fishing safety survey
IMPROVING the safety of rock fishing will be a key aspect of a new survey aimed at saving lives and making the sport more enjoyable. Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said the $67,000 survey would examine the circumstances of rock fishing deaths and address safety issues.
Since 1990, at least 24 rock fishermen have died on the peninsula coastline, most being of Asian origin. In July, a 48-year-old Korean rock fisherman was pulled unconscious from the water at Whale Beach but died a few days later.
Multi-lingual signs warning about cliff safety are already displayed at Bluefish Point at North Head, regarded as one of the most dangerous rock fishing locations.
Mr Macdonald said the project would broaden a 2003 study prepared for the NSW Water safety Taskforce, specifically looking at rock fishing fatalities.
The report examined details and demographics of the 74 rock fishing deaths which have occurred in NSW between 1992 and 2000.
“Improving safety and saving lives are the key objectives of a new study designed to investigate the nature of fishing fatalities,” Mr Macdonald said.
“Recreational fishing is enjoyed by many people in NSW but there are safety issues that we are keen to address through better education and understanding.”
The report, being undertaken by the Royal Life Saving Society Australia, will compare the earlier data and assess whether safety messages are being effectively understood.
“This study will assist us in developing health promotion and training programs, public education, and aquatic risk management services to prevent recreational fishing injury and fatality,” the society’s state CEO, David Macallister, said.
“It will also include a random telephone survey of 1000 rock fishers to enable us to assess a range of perceptions and opinions relating to recreational fishing and to identify new trends and changing habits.”
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Angler washed to death off Bondi rocks
A 76-year-old man died after being swept off the rocks while fishing in North Bondi this morning.
The man's death comes on the same day the State Government launched a study into rock-fishing fatalities, as part of a $12-million program to boost recreational fishing.
The man had been fishing with a relative on a rock platform about five metres above the water, Inspector Michael Flood from Waverley police said.
"It appears he's just been washed off the rocks," he said.
Ambulance crews were called to Military Road about 7.30am and the body was retrieved from the water, an ambulance spokeswoman said.
There were few other details about the man.
Relatives were still being contacted, Inspector Flood said.
It was not yet clear how the man died and a report was being prepared for the coroner.
"He may not necessarily have drowned. He may have hit his head on the rocks. He may have had a heart attack ... there could be a multitude of reasons as to why he's dead," the ambulance spokeswoman said.
Inspector Flood could not confirm reports the man had been hanging on to the rocks before falling.
"He may have been scrambling to get back [on to the platform] - but I don't know [about the truth of those reports]," he said.
NSW Fisheries' rock-fishing safety advice instructs people to "never fish in exposed areas during rough or large seas" and to be aware of swell and tidal conditions.
The swell at most of Sydney's beaches was expected to be high today and the Bureau of Meteorology had broadcast warnings of dangerous surf conditions.
The fisherman's death came as the State Government announced a study into rock-fishing fatalities, as part of a program to boost recreational fishing.
The study will examine the circumstances surrounding fishing-related deaths and aims to find ways to improve safety, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said.
"Recreational fishing is enjoyed by many people in NSW but there are safety issues that we are keen to address through better education and understanding," he said.
It was not known how many people had died recently while rock fishing, but there were 74 rock-fishing fatalities in NSW between 1992 and 2000, NSW water-safety body SafeWaters reported in 2003.
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Autopsy finds plastic in whale
PIECES of plastic found in a dead whale's stomach in Tasmania has prompted authorities to repeat a warning against marine litter.
Government marine officer Isabel Beasley said a post-mortem on an adult Pygmy Right Whale washed up on Tasmania's east coast found two plastic caps inside its stomach.
The plastic tops were about four centimetres in diameter, reasonably large to be carrying around in the six metre long, baleen whale's stomach, Dr Beasley said.
"Although we don't know if the plastic tops caused the death of the animal, we do know that sickness or debilitation can cause whales to come inshore and strand," she said.
Dr Beasley said the discovery of the plastic tops is a reminder as to why people need to be careful with the way rubbish and marine debris is disposed of around our waterways.
"It's not just being aware of disposal of your own rubbish but also removing rubbish you may see in the water when you are out there," she said.
Although Pygmy Right Whales have been recorded around Tasmanian waters previously, they are a cryptic species and are the least known of all the baleen whales.
While rarely seen at sea generally, the species is found in temperate and sub-Antarctic waters, but as they are usually found further offshore it makes studying them much more difficult.
Dr Beasley said scientists took biological samples from this whale to increase knowledge of the species.
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Appeal for help after wharf drownings
AN appeal has been launched to help the devastated fiancee and family of a man who drowned with his two young sons off a wharf .
Shane O'Neill, a butcher from Kalaru near Bega on the New South Wales souith coast, dived into dark, choppy waters to try to rescue four-year-old Riley and 15-month-old Travis after they fell from the fishing wharf on Tuesday night.
All three drowned despite the efforts of lifesavers and a heroic onlooker who also dived in.
Mr O'Neill, who would have turned 29 on Saturday of next week, was to marry his long-time love Stacey Lambert in March next year.
An appeal has been started to raise funds for funeral expenses and other financial burdens resulting from the loss, south coast-based Horizon Credit Union said.
People who wish to make a donation to the O'Neill/Lambert family appeal can do so through the Horizon Credit Union or by electronic funds transfer.
Ms Lambert's family and friends were last night rallying around her at the family home in tiny hamlet of Kalaru, on the road between Bega and Tathra.
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Donations for the Shane O'Neill Family Appeal can be made to:
Account Name: Shane O'Neill Family Appeal
BSB: 802-124 Account No: 90058
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"We are just all gutted," long-time friend Steven Meaker said yesterday.
"To lose a family, I couldn't imagine what Stacey is going through. They have just built a house."
Meanwhile lifesavers who helped pull the three from the ocean said the odds were fatally stacked against the father and his sons once they went into the water
"They all had their shoes and clothes and everything on, so in those sort of conditions they didn't really have much chance," Tathra lifesaver Scott Meaker told ABC.
"I've never been so scared in my life. I jumped in and didn't even realise how cold the water was," fellow lifesaver Shane Rettke said.
Onlooker hero
Mr O'Neill was fishing off the wharf as Travis sat nearby in a pram held by Riley when the pram and boys tumbled into the water.
The panicked father quickly dived in, and a 37-year-old man, identified by The Sydney Morning Herald as Canberra man Robert Brown, also jumped into the water to help.
Mr Brown, a protective services officer with the Australian Federal Police, was reportedly "groaning" in the water when rescuers found him.
He was taken to hospital on Tuesday night but discharged early yesterday morning with minor injuries.
The water temperature at the time was estimated to be about 15C, with a 1.5m swell running.
Police said members of the public who wished to nominate Mr Brown for a bravery award could contact Bega police.
"He risked his life to save others and he could have had a very different outcome for himself," lifesaver Mr Rettke told the ABC.
NSW police Superintendent Mick Willing said the people involved knew each other and the tragedy had impacted on the whole community.
The reality of Tuesday night is just starting to set in for some.
"My wife came home, she dropped the kids off at school and said the (deceased) little fella was actually from my young bloke's pre-school and that's when it hit home," Mr Meaker said.
With AAP and The Daily Telegraph
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Rogue eel terrorises swimmers at Gwongoorool rock pool at Binna Burra
A GIANT rogue eel has been terrorising swimmers at a Gold Coast hinterland swimming hole.
The territorial eel, more than a metre long, has bitten several swimmers, including Colombian student Carolina Franco, who was bitten twice on the leg during a dip in the Gwongoorool rock pool at Binna Burra on Sunday.
The eel has become so aggressive that rangers from Lamington National Park have placed a sign on the walking trail leading to the rock pool, warning swimmers that eels inhabit the waters and have been known to attack when threatened.
Swimmers would have been hoping the recent heavy rain had forced the eel to get a wriggle on but it was easy to spot at the rock pool yesterday, patrolling the perimeter of its fiercely-guarded territory.
Ms Franco, who is studying English in Brisbane, was at Binna Burra with friends on the weekend when she decided to cool off in the popular swimming hole.
She was bitten twice on the left leg and later required a tetanus shot.
She said she did not see any sign warning against swimming in the pools and got the fright of her life when the eel came in for a chomp.
"It really scared me," she said.
"We saw the eel swimming around when we got there, but we didn't think eels would attack people so we weren't worried."
Her friend David Velasquez said rangers told them there had been several reports of the eel biting swimmers.
An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said the eel had not given rangers the slip and no further action would be taken.
"Eels are part of the natural environment at Binna Burra and we need to remember we are entering their habitat.
"The EPA won't be moving them out of their pool," the spokesman said.
Tetanus shot ... Colombian student Carolina Franco was bitten by an eel that has started attacking swimmers who try to cool off in its rock pool.
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Fisherman Lost, scared and nude
Julie Lightfoot
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
© The Cairns Post
A NAKED man was found in dense rainforest south of Cairns in a bizarre rescue that has searchers scratching their heads.
The man, 27, spent a cold night huddled among the trees on a steep ridge behind Bingil Bay at Mission Beach after losing his way, and his clothes, in the rainforest.
He was found sitting on a log in the nude.
Rescuers hauled themselves up a steep rainforested hill to get to him in territory they yesterday called "billygoat
country".
"He was sitting there with scratches all over him," teenage searcher Brad Figallo said.
"We saw him and it was like, oh geeze. He'd said he needed some help. But we weren't expecting that.
"But he was more relieved than embarrassed to see us … he told us he thought he was going to die up there."
Police described the man as disorientated, scratched but otherwise not hurt when they found him about 10.30am Saturday.
Sen-Constable Tony Cliffe said the man told searchers, police and ambulance officers he had no idea how he got up the ridge or where his clothes were.
He said he had been fishing near the spot the previous afternoon.
"They gave him water, clothes and got him down," Sen-Constable Cliffe said.
He praised Bingil Bay residents who alerted emergency services and organised search parties after hearing the man's yells for help from bushland above their homes about 7am.
"They took on thick, very hard-to-navigate rainforest on the side of the mountain to get to him … we don't know how he got there and he tells us he doesn’t know either," he said.
The lost man is believed to be a newcomer to town.
Residents, who were "still scratching their heads" over the incident yesterday, said another teenager had raced home on a motorbike to get clothes for the man and gave them to Brad who trekked back up the hill to the man and an adult searcher.
They believe the hiker may have got lost after straying from a walking track up Bicton Hill, east of the ridge.
The rescue comes days after another off-beat nude incident at Mission Beach, police arresting a semi-naked man found sleeping on the bonnet of a tourist’s rental car.
A shocked couple called police, saying a stranger had dented their car by lying across it, and was sound asleep on the bonnet without pants.
Police charged the 49-year-old Brisbane man with wilful damage.
He was interviewed and then released.
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'Jelly balls' may slow global warming
Geoff Strong
November 17, 2008
VAST numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming.
The jellyfish-like animals are known as salps and their main food is phytoplankton (marine algae) which absorbs the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the top level of the ocean. This in turn comes from the atmosphere.
Mark Baird of the CSIRO said salps were notoriously difficult for scientists to study in the laboratory and consequently little attention has been paid to their ecological role until recently.
Dr Baird was part of a CSIRO and University of NSW marine survey last month that found a massive abundance of salps in the waters around Sydney. They were up to 10 times what they were when first surveyed 70 years ago.
Different salp species are found around the world and attention is now being paid to what effect they might have on global warming.
They are also of interest because in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica they are thought to be displacing krill, which is a key food source for many marine animals, including filter-feeding whales such as the southern right and humpback. By eating the algae, the salps turn the algae and their carbon dioxide into faeces which drops to the ocean floor. They also take carbon to the floor with them when they die after a life cycle as short as only a couple of weeks.
This is thought to be a natural form of carbon sequestration similar to what scientists are trying to do with carbon capture from emission sources such as power stations.
Dr Baird said Australian salps, which grow to about half a centimetre, are biologically closer to vertebrates such as humans than to jellyfish because they have the rudiments of a primitive nervous system.
"They are interesting because they are the fastest reproducing multi-celled animal on the planet and can double their numbers several times a day."
Salps had in the past been considered of little interest because they had fairly low nutrient value and were insignificant as a food source.
He said this was a concern because as the Antarctic ice melted, they were replacing krill, which is a high-nutrient food.
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Pete,
That is not quite correct. The 'Line" for open waters in Sydney Harbour is drawn between South head and Cannae Pt.
So if you are fishing Quarantine or Old mans hat or North head you are in open waters.
Here is the Chart/Map
If you are fishing another area it would be wise to have a look at the maps here
That's right Robbie..there are quite a few exceptions to the 2NM rule
and why I said "generally".
Always best to check those charts.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Please help with this offshore safty gear...?
What is classed as off shore or open water? what safty gear is different if you are in open water?
Do you have to have VHF radio when you are in open water? or will 27MHZ do the job
HERE is the NSW Maritime
page for both inshore and offshore safety requirements.
Generally it is open water when 2 nautical miles to sea.
As for the radio Here is the
info.
Cheers,
Pete
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Be aware that NSW Maritime is conducting Operation Blue Water
this weekend targeting offshore boaters.
They will be operating all along the coast checking skippers and
making sure you have the correct safety gear on your boat etc.
Here's some more info:
Cheers,
Pete.
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Maritime in Operation Blue Water
NSW Maritime is to target offshore boating safety this weekend in Operation Blue Water, General Manager Recreational Boating Brett Moore said.
Moore said Operation Blue Water would see Boating Safety Officers patrolling coastal areas of NSW from Tweed to Eden with a focus on skippers’ responsibilities.
“Boating offshore is a great experience though it has special challenges and skippers need to ensure their boat and crew are up to the challenge,” he said.
“If something goes wrong offshore, help can be a long way away, so the best advice is to be prepared and carry the right safety gear, and communications equipment.”
Skippers will be reminded of the need to:
• Check the weather before each voyage and if in doubt, don’t go out;
• Ensure the vessel is in good working order and is appropriate for the operating conditions;
• Wear lifejackets when crossing coastal bars; and
• Have a marine band radio onboard when more than 2 nautical miles offshore.
The marine radio can be used to monitor the weather, to log on and off with the coastal radio network so someone knows where you are and to call for help if needed.
NSW Maritime Boating Safety Officers will also check to ensure any vessel required to carry an emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) is aware of the need to switch to a 406MHz beacon before 1 February 2009.
“From February the international system of monitoring distress signals from a 121.5MHz beacon will be switched off and only the superior digital signal of a 406 beacon will be effective,” he said.
“Every skipper of a boat required to carry an EPIRB must switch to a 406 and register that beacon with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. It is free and easy to register these beacons with AMSA online.”
“Old 121 beacons must be disposed of appropriately and can be handed into Battery World outlets nationwide at no cost.
“The 121 beacons must not be thrown in the rubbish as an accidental activation can lead to expensive and time-wasting false alarms and searches.”
For more information visit www.maritime.nsw.gov.au and www.amsa.gov.au
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Fisherman's body recovered
November 7, 2008 - 9:34AM
Police have recovered the body of a fisherman who went missing near Wellington, north west of Sydney, last month.
Believed to be that of Dubbo man Alan Strong, 53, the body was spotted between the dam and the spillway wall on Lake Burrendong at 7.45am yesterday.
Strong went missing on October 24 while fishing on the lake and his empty boat was found washed ashore on an island later the same day.
A police spokesman said they could not speculate on a cause of death until a post mortem was carried out.
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Toxic dangers from the deep
Caroline Marcus
October 26, 2008
Australians are eating imported fish that have not been tested for harmful toxins, consumer advocate Choice warns.
Authorities test only 5 per cent of fish arriving from abroad.
In a report released today, Choice calls for Australians to have similar protection as in the US, where national regulator the Food and Drug Administration tests all shipments of certain farmed fish species from China. It says the US repeatedly finds banned chemicals, including fungicides and antibiotics, in imported fish.
"Fish found by our authorities to be contaminated are rejected, however 95 per cent of imports are not routinely tested nor is domestically produced seafood," Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn said. "We feel Australians deserve better."
Food Standards Australia New Zealand found 16 per cent of domestically farmed fish and 17 per cent of imported farmed fish contain the fungicide malachite green, a chemical used in a farming to prevent disease and parasites.
Large fish such as swordfish, marlin and shark can contain mercury at levels that harm small children and pregnant women, not to mention being harvested unsustainably, the report found.
Mr Zinn said consumers were getting mixed messages, being told by government and health authorities to eat more fish because of its health benefits.
Yet aside from the health risks, about two-thirds of fish species are overfished by Australian fisheries, a report by the Australian Government Bureau of Rural Sciences found.
Choice has called for the next revision of the Australian Dietary Guidelines to consider the impact of fishing practices, saying labels should be more clearly detailed in terms of where seafood came from and how it was caught.
To help consumers make better choices about buying fish, the Australian Marine Conservation Society has released a guide with a colour-coded table. Fish marked red means "say no", orange is "think twice" and green is "better choice".
Greg Doyle, from Pier at Rose Bay, said his restaurant used only Australian fish because he believed imported seafood was usually "substandard".
"I don't quite understand why there is a lot of overseas, imported, frozen product on supermarket shelves and that sort of thing, when people can go and buy local, fresh-caught product, which is far superior and would be more supportive of local industry."
The chef of Balmoral's Bottom Of The Harbour Seafoods Cafe and Bistro, James Fairall, said 90 per cent of the fish he used were Australian.
"I am a little bit wary about seafood from China," he said.
"If it was mandatory that everything got tested then it would stop people trying to send us whatever they don't want - the fish that the rest of the world rejects.
"I am a chef and I am quite ignorant of any harmful nature of imported seafood, so what chance does the consumer have?"
National Aquaculture Council chief executive Simon Bennison questioned Choice's right to speak out on the industry.
"When did Choice become experts in the issue of sustainable fisheries?" he said. "They need to be awfully careful because Australian fisheries are well managed."
Food Standards Australia New Zealand spokeswoman Lydia Buchtmann said a number of imported seafoods on the high-risk list would be tested more regularly.
"Consumers should be confident that seafood is safe in Australia," Ms Buchtmann said.
"If something is picked up by the enforcement agencies then of course action is taken but that is rare."
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Fisher prize: Aussie woman angler first to compete in all-men competition
October 27, 2008 - 12:39PM
An Australian angler is set to break the gender barrier and become the first woman to compete in a US fishing tournament against a field of men.
Kim Bain, 28, earned her place in the Bassmaster Classic after winning the Women's Bassmaster Tour's 'Angler of the Year' title, ESPN said.
Securing the title granted her automatic entry to the previously all-male tournament, it said.
Bain left her home in Brisbane when she was 19 to bass fish in America, hoping she might one day qualify for the tournament, it said.
"I had a big dream as a kid, which was to fish the Bassmaster Classic - and here I am," Bain said.
"For anybody out there, in whatever sport or industry they're in, if they set a goal as a child and then there comes a day that you achieve that, it's a pretty spectacular moment."
But Bain, who lives with her husband in Alabama, was not daunted by the prospect, USA Today reported.
"I compete against guys all the time ... but I'm competing against the fish," she said.
Bain has done TV commentary at the Classic in previous years, and was proposed to at the Classic by her husband, Andre Moore, in 2005, ESPN said.
She has also participated in predominantly male fishing tours in the past.
"Those guys are almost like my big brothers," Bain said.
"I don't think it matters to me whether they are guys or girls. I'll just show up and say, 'Hey guys, what's up? Let's hang out."'
Prize money for the Classic is $US500,000 ($800,000).
Bain joins the ranks of other female athletes, such as golfer Annika Sorenstam, who have taken on men's fields in their chosen sports.
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Capsize duo rescued after cold night
October 18, 2008 - 1:41PM
Two fishermen clung to the hull of their capsized boat for almost four hours this morning after the vessel's motor failed at the mouth of the Tweed River.
The men, aged 29 and 30, called for help about 2.20am (AEDT) but a volunteer marine vessel, Point Danger, could not find them and an RACQ Careflight chopper was called in to help.
But it was Point Danger that eventually found the pair about 6am (AEDT), clinging to the boat's hull in life jackets.
A police spokesman said that when the men couldn't restart their motor, the boat was flipped by a wave.
"They threw out the anchor but the anchor line snapped," the spokesman said.
"They were in good spirits but very cold."
The men had drifted about three kilometres towards Cook Island.
They were taken by ambulance to Tweed Heads Hospital suffering hypothermia.
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Man five times over the limit, say police
NORTHERN Beaches police have arrested a man who was allegedly five times over the legal limit, after he allegedly crashed while towing a boat.
The 55-year-old man was allegedly towing the boat with his Nissan sedan out of Garigal National Park just after lunchtime on Monday.
Members of the public told police the man was towing the boat out of the Davidson picnic area, on Middle Harbour, when he allegedly collided with a pole, causing the bumper bar and number plate to fall off the car. Police will allege the man continued driving.
Members of the public contacted police and officers stopped the man in Ferguson St at Forestville. The man was breath tested and allegedly returned a positive reading.
He was taken to Frenchs Forest Police station where he allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.265 - more than five times the legal limit.
Research has revealed unless a person has developed a high tolerance for alcohol, a reading of 0.20 is a very serious intoxication, while 0.40 could result in fatal alcohol poisoning.
The man’s licence was suspended and he was charged with high-range drink driving.
He is due to appear in Manly Local Court later this month.
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Shark bites man
A MAN lost two litres of blood from a gash in his leg after an encounter with a shark off Darwin Harbour.
Geoff Johnson, 50, needed 30 stitches in his right leg after his run-in with the 1.8m reef shark.
He hooked the shark while out fishing with his partner, Jacky Lamb.
Mr Johnson, of Wanguri, reeled in the fish and tried to grab it by the tail so he could free the hook from its mouth about 3pm on Sunday.
But the shark fought back, biting Mr Johnson on his right knee.
The fishing hook then became stuck in his leg, and as the shark thrashed around, the hook ripped a huge gash in the his leg.
"I just pulled it on board and thrashed around a little bit and the hook sliced my leg," he said.
"The hook did more damage than the shark."
Mr Johnson said blood started gushing out of the huge gash below his knee.
"I told Jacky to cut the rope on the anchor," he said.
"There was blood going everywhere."
"I reckon I would have lost litres."
"I had to lay down and Jacky had to drive the boat back in."
Ms Lamb said she was shocked by the sight of Mr Johnson's blood.
"It looked like somebody had been murdered," she said.
It took the couple about 45 minutes to make it back to shore.
They arrived at the Darwin Trailer Boat Club and onlookers watched in amazement as Mr Johnson ran to shore with a blood-soaked towel wrapped around his leg.
Ken O'Brien and Chris Young, who had just come in from their own fishing trip, ran to Mr Johnson's aid.
A female employee from the Trailer Boat Club also came and gave first aid.
Mr O'Brien and Mr Young then put the wounded fishermen in the back of Mr O'Brien's car and drove him to Royal Darwin Hospital where doctors stitched up his leg.
Mr Johnson said he wanted to thank the people who had come to his aid in the true Territory way - by buying them a beer.
"They did a great job," he said.
The shark, with the hook still in it's mouth.
Geoff stumbles ashore and things are looking gory.
Geoff Johnson shows the price he paid for a spot of fishing.
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Humans scoffed by mutant fish
By EMMA COX
TV Features Editor
Published: Today
A FEARSOME mutant fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses, scientists fear.
They reckon that a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals.
Locals have believed for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.
The extraordinary creature has been investigated by biologist Jeremy Wade for a TV documentary to be shown on Five.
He said: “The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres. There will be a few freak individuals that grow bigger than the other ones and if you throw in extra food, they will grow even bigger.”
Jeremy discounted theories that crocodiles could be responsible for the carnage before turning his attention to goonches – among the world’s biggest freshwater fish.
Dragged
He caught one which tipped the scales at 161lb and was nearly 6ft long – a world record weight and far bigger than any landed before.
He said: “If that got hold of you, there’d be no getting away.
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An 18-year-old Nepali disappeared in the river last year, dragged down by something described as like an “elongated pig”.
But the first victim of a goonch attack was thought to have been a 17-year-old Nepalese boy.
He was killed in April 1988 as he cooled himself in the river.
Witnesses said he was suddenly pulled below the surface.
Three months later a young boy was dragged underwater as his father watched helplessly.
Five’s Nature Shock series starts on October 14 and Flesh Eating River Monster is on October 21 at 8pm.
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Thank you one and all for the B.day wishes.
I had a very nice day.. no fishing unfortunately though.
Hope to be more active on fr once
is better.Cheers,
Pete.
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Spider and the underwater car
AN ITSY bitsy spider caused a whole lot of trouble for one car owner when the eight-legged offender scared the driver, resulting in the sinking of his vehicle in Pittwater. The driver stopped his Mazda 121 at Rowland Reserve near the boat ramp about 8.20pm on Monday to enjoy the view.
He told police a spider startled him and started crawling across him in the car.
Northern Beaches crime manager Dave Walton said the driver then jumped out of his car while it was not in gear.
“The car rolled down the ramp and quickly sunk under the water. “Police attended and assessed the situation and there was no danger to anyone.”
The car is likely to stay submerged until the driver’s insurance company assesses the damage. Det Insp Walton said a brightly coloured marker had been placed on the submerged car to alert other boats in the area.
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Red October comes to Clontarf
A MYSTERIOUS red sludge that poured into Clontarf beach early yesterday morning is most likely a red algae bloom.
The soupy red liquid was initially believed to be the result of potentially toxic illegal dumping.
Manly Council is carrying out further tests but its expert is almost certain its the naturally occurring algae. It took a number of hours for the red plume to dissipate but the beach was not closed.
It was not until late afternoon that it was revealed to be algae.
Earlier in the day, nearby resident Sue Stratton, who took the above picture, said it was alarming that the beach was left open.
“If it is paint it could well be toxic and kids were swimming in it,” she said.
Manly Council general manger Henry Wong said after the sludge was reported to the council, his staff tried to discouraged people from swimming in the affected area. However, the council’s environmental experts felt it was not necessary to close the whole beach.
It was also considering prosecution if an illegal dumper had be found.
Mr Wong said while it is most likely natural, people need to be aware of what effect dumping has on the environment and they can face fines of up to $1 million.
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Capsize survivor swims for six hours
Two fishermen are missing and another swam six hours to safety after their boat sank off South Australia's coast.
A search is underway for the missing men in the Gulf St Vincent after their colleague was washed ashore about 2am (CST) today near Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula.
The 33-year-old man, who told police their boat sank about 8.30pm (CST) yesterday, survived six hours in the water before being discovered by passers-by in underwear and a T-shirt.
He has been taken to hospital suffering hypothermia.
"The man stated the boat got into difficulty about 8.30 last night," a South Australia police spokesman said.
"The boat has reportedly sunk approximately six kilometres offshore from Stansbury."
Emergency services, including water police, other fishing boats and aircraft, are concentrating their search on that area.
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It appears that the authorities know of that animal at Whale Beach.
Manly Daily had the story about him earlier this week.
BTW..It's a NZ fur seal.
Looks like he's just resting up before heading to sea again.
Also, they warn not to try and feed it.
Cheers,
Pete.