FREE DIVING FISHERMEN – EARLY ERA OF DIVERS
Category » Free divers and Spear fishermen
FIRST POWERHEAD TESTS AS DEFENSIVE WEAPON
The early days at Point Lookout and Flinders Reef, off Brisbane.
These pictures illustrate steady changing attitudes toward the sea. Grey Nurse sharks and Queensland groper are both protected species today. The use of powerheads on spearguns is also out, but OK on handspears as a defensive device.
(Below left) Flinders Reef, Cape Moreton, Queensland in 1965 (right) Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island 1967 – Diver Rodney Fox was bitten by White Pointer shark in 1963, today is an established shark conservationist.