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At Australian Shark Count Seachange Newsletter Seachange Newsletter xG at AustralianEdition 6 Shark Count March 2009 Contents: Editorial National Championships Wild Blue Miami Shark Count Benefits for AUF members 10% discounts Competitions What is happening in your state AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness toMedia the UnderwaterReleases World New Members S Safety Editorial Welcome to edition 6 of Seachange.- the newsletter for members of the Australian Underwater Federation. This issue is packed with results and photos from the recent national titles in WA. Thank you very much to the brilliant organisers Simon Longbottom and Joe Petrovitch – and congratulations to the open winner Arnie Piccoli – read all their stories below. We are very excited that the Nationals was assessed and received 4 stars in the NEATfish accreditation – this is based on environmental, social and economic criteria. It is a great result for our sport and brings the number of competitions accredited to 3 (the first was the Blue Water Classic and the second the Pacific Coast Championships – both in NSW). We have some great benefits for AUF members so do yourself a favour and purchase the Spearing the Menu DVD – you may learn about Spearfishing and cooking your catch. Dr Adam Smith, National Chair (Spearfishing) AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World WA Nationals Report By Simon Longbottom, Competitor Director, WA Chair and Joe Petrovitch The West Australian Spearfishing Commission recently hosted the 57th Australian Underwater Titles in Dunsborough, Western Australia. It was a week of competition which involved 3 individual spearfishing heats, a film fishing event and a fin swim race. The competition was shore based, meaning divers had to enter and exit from a designated point (no easy boat rides here!). Each diver had to tow their own safety float, with fish and any spare gear they might need. The spearfishing heats ran for 6 hours each and used a species based scoring system meaning divers are rewarded for finding as many different species as possible (subject to being on the nominated scorecard). A diver may only present one of each species to the Weigh Master, with each species having a minimum competition weight approximately 30% bigger than the legal size for that specie. To do well in this type of competition a diver must be fit (to swim the distances required to find the different species) and they must know the species (where fish will be given the conditions on the day). Finswimming and Filmfishing Busselton jetty for the film fishing and fin swim. At 1.8km long the jetty is the longest in the southern hemisphere and being 138 years old has turned into a great artifical reef (off limits to most forms of fishing though). The fin swim was first which provided much amusement to the local primary school AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World kids taking swimming lessons. Each diver had their own idea of the best attire, full suits, no suits, suits inside out. In the end it was the ever consistent Adam Smith in front by several body lengths followed by a great struggle between Derek Dufall and junior Jordan Macneill which was eventually termed a “dead heat”. The film fishing yielded some fantastic photos. Several tourists emerged from the underwater observatory on the jetty exclaiming “and they didn’t even have a SCUBA tank on!” Everyone seemed to have a great time at this location and I think if I didn’t have a time limit on them I would still be trying to get them out of the water! At the end of the day it was Derek Dufall a clear winner with photos of nearly all the hard to find species. Place Surname Name State TOTAL 1 Dufall Derek WA 65 2 deVries Ric VIC 58.5 3 Bond David WA 49 4 Sutcliffe David WA 47 5 Carter Warren NSW 46 6 Petersen Murray VIC 45.5 7 Smith Adam QLD 45 8 Pfrengle Gunther NSW 42.5 9 Monaghan Chris VIC 41 10 Piccoli Arnold WA 40 11 Underhay Glen WA 40 12 Fitzmaurice Shane NZ 37.5 13 Bunney Stephen NSW 37.5 14 Fenney Drew VIC 36.5 15 Schulter Ryan NSW 36.5 16 Lane Damian WA 36.5 17 Stacey Mary-Anne SA 36.5 18 Carlisle Graham WA 36 19 Wills Rob NSW 35.5 20 Saunders Michael QLD 35 21 Macneill Jordan WA 35 22 Huegh Tony QLD 33 23 Arentz Michael NSW 32 AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World 24 Herbert Dwayne NZ 31.5 25 Haley Josh WA 31.5 26 Nilsson-Linne Cameron WA 29 27 Loxton Spencer WA 28 28 Davies Paul WA 24.5 29 Felton John WA 24 30 Falzon Claye NSW 24 31 Wilkinson Jamie WA 21.5 32 Schulter John NSW 20 33 Smith Kai NSW 19.5 34 Falzon Jesmond NSW 18.5 Spearfishing Day one was at the southern end of Hamelin Bay opposite the island. Conditions started out fine as the competitors entered the water. Two safety boats crewed by Alistair MacNeil and Brian Loxton, and Mike Simon and Josh Hayley kept a maritime eye on proceedings as Simon and I managed things from shore. One of the boat vhf radios wasn’t working properly so our backup handheld radio was used. Wayne Spencer would also volunteer his time on future days to man a safety boat. With regular radio checks and reports from the skippers, we were kept well informed of how the divers were going. Mark Flynn and Mark Colys assisted Simon at the weigh-in for each day. Fitness showed on the first day as after one hour Tony, Dwayne, Arnold and Drew Fenney hadn’t stopped free styling as they powered to their first stop. The top divers would end up swimming 8 kms or more as they searched for ground. This was no weekend wobble in the park. Highlights for the day were Jack Lavender’s 3.5kg Giant Boarfish, Tony Heugh’s 22kgs of fish and Spencer Loxton’s determined effort to swim back to shore and sign off with 15 seconds to spare. Although Tony’s catch weighed more Arnold won the day with more species and Dwayne Herbert came third. Adam Smith managed to lose his gun as he performed a tonsillectomy on a 3 metre bronze whaler. The spear passing into the shark’s mouth and out the gill slits whereupon the flopper opened snagging the unloaded gun leaving a distressed Adam to decry the table manners of our sharks. It was not the only occasion that a diver returned to shore to replace broken or missing equipment. But it was certainly the most exciting! Day 2- Tony Heugh returned half way through to drop off what was to be the fish of the tournament, a 5kg Baldchin Groper. Steve Bunney was going well until he donated a couple of species to a local whaler but still managed 3rd with 11 species just behind Derek Dufall (2nd) with 12 and Ric DeVries (1st) with 13. Overall Arnie and Tony still hung onto the top 2 positions however with a heat to go it was anyone’s game. Day 3 saw us at Sugarloaf Rock for the third and final spearfishing heat. I couldn’t believe that the weather had held out to allow 3 heats on the exposed western side of the cape. The final day would be close and a long swim but after 3 days of competition who had the strength to keep going? As it turned out Dwayne had a great day bagging 12 species including a nice 8.5kg WA Dhufish, hot on his heals was Arnold Piccoli and Drew Fenny each with 12 species but slightly less weight. AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World PLACE Surname Name State Class Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 TOTAL 1 Piccoli Arnold WA Veteran 100.00 83.10 96.83 279.93 2 Herbert Dwayne NZ Intermediate 85.54 73.36 100.00 258.90 3 Huegh Tony QLD Veteran 91.55 79.38 84.23 255.16 4 Smith Adam QLD Senior 76.54 86.34 89.86 252.74 5 Fenney Drew VIC Senior 76.26 76.13 95.35 247.74 6 Pfrengle Gunther NSW Veteran 84.22 81.07 68.17 233.46 7 Sutcliffe David WA Senior 76.75 77.48 61.48 215.71 8 Dufall Derek WA Senior 52.86 93.98 62.18 209.02 9 deVries Ric VIC Senior 53.63 100.00 54.51 208.14 10 Fitzmaurice Shane NZ Senior 69.27 85.26 53.24 207.77 11 Petersen Murray VIC Senior 76.33 58.42 60.56 195.31 12 Nilsson-Linne Cameron WA Senior 61.38 59.77 69.51 190.66 13 Carlisle Graham WA Senior 54.89 65.11 60.92 180.92 14 Lavender Jack NSW Intermediate 63.13 65.31 45.28 173.72 15 Schulter John NSW Veteran 67.88 43.88 60.70 172.46 16 Bunney Stephen NSW Senior 45.53 88.30 38.10 171.93 17 Schulter Ryan NSW Intermediate 75.63 51.45 38.80 165.88 18 Felton John WA Senior 80.24 58.01 22.75 161.00 19 Elliott Leigh VIC Intermediate 46.30 50.57 57.39 154.26 20 Lane Damian WA Senior 77.72 45.44 30.56 153.72 21 Neilsen Tim QLD Senior 62.71 43.41 37.75 143.87 22 Carter Warren NSW Senior 60.54 44.35 38.31 143.20 23 Arentz Michael NSW Senior 76.82 43.61 22.68 143.11 24 Wills Rob NSW Senior 47.00 46.32 43.10 136.42 25 Monaghan Chris VIC Senior 54.05 51.52 30.28 135.85 26 Neilsen Jayme-Lee QLD Junior 54.47 42.87 38.03 135.37 27 Falzon Jesmond NSW Veteran 45.39 57.67 30.56 133.62 28 Stacey Mary-Anne SA Ladies 45.88 36.24 33.45 115.57 29 Saunders Michael QLD Intermediate 52.51 53.28 7.57 113.36 30 Macneill Jordan WA Junior 30.59 43.88 37.75 112.22 31 Morton Jozua (Joz) NSW Junior 29.96 43.68 30.07 103.71 32 Underhay Glen WA Senior 37.29 43.14 15.28 95.71 33 Chave Matt WA Senior 46.02 14.27 31.34 91.63 34 Wilkinson Jamie WA Senior 52.37 38.34 0.00 90.71 35 Davies Paul WA Senior 22.63 36.58 30.14 89.35 36 Bunney George NSW Masters 30.03 36.71 22.54 89.28 37 Davies Guy WA Senior 45.32 21.57 14.79 81.68 38 Falzon Claye NSW Junior 29.75 36.51 14.93 81.19 39 Bond David WA Senior 22.63 36.38 15.07 74.08 40 Loxton Spencer WA Senior 31.01 14.47 14.93 60.41 41 Fylnn Mark WA Senior 22.77 14.47 14.93 52.17 42 Haley Josh WA Intermediate 0.00 43.54 0.00 43.54 AUF Mission: Bring Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World Most meritorious Huegh Tony Baldchin Groper 5.05kg Interpacific Pairs Day 5 saw the top ten divers pair up for the Interpacific pairs selection competition.
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