Aucklands Most Popular Surf Beach

[@Chr.1995]

Loving the shark vids !

[@jja9705]

Awesome Luke. Informative as always

[@sanzokugarage140]

Your videos are definatly making me more comfortable with the idea of sharks and not leaving the water

[@michaelrenner1308]

Mean footage! Good call with the guard and the shooter

[@aaronjesperson6917]

That last bronze was a good size shark 👍

[@jordancurtis7996]

Man that’s mad, dived Te Arai for years, and only ever saw a shark there once when some line fishermen sat their boat out by the rocks with a burley all morning. Great video too bro.

[@nathanadams4619]

Epic vid bro, thanks for the content, a buddy and I spearing on the south coast of NSW Australia, and had an interesting encounter with a big girl today, we were in pretty murky water and weren't to keen on hanging round, but also have noticed over last few years the population booming also

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

Cheers, had 4 of them take a king off me yesterday.

[@joek292]

where abouts south coast? I'm a new noob spearo in the area and pretty scared of seeing sharks out.

[@nathanadams4619]

@@joek292 Hey bro I usually dive around Narooma area and round Montague Island (few Km offshore) when I can get our there, I don't think ya need to b to worried, specially if ya diving in nice clear water and with a buddy, and the bronzies seem only that concerned for ya fish. But yeh I know what ya saying I'm still pretty inexperienced and only had a handful of encounters, but most of the time there just intrigued and curious, and ya can work out pretty early whether there relaxed or geed up. Where bouts U do your diving?

[@joek292]

@@nathanadams4619 thanks for the info dude. I'm at the illawarra region, it's hard getting someone to come with you. I saw my first shark up close doing a freediving course on the weekend but was only a grey nurse. You might think I'm stressing but I bought a Shark Shield Freedom 7 just in case. Gonna do a spearfishing course end of the month coz I am like full noob hey haha. I have heard there are more sharks around though, the drone shark app on Instagram saw 4 great whites at sussex in one day a few weeks ago

[@nathanadams4619]

@@joek292 yeh sweet nah all good, yeh them courses r pretty awesum, definitely worth doin if ya having trouble finding guys to go with and show ya the ropes, and there's definitely some do's and don'ts in regards to breathing up and holding ya breath properly, nice work and hopefully through that meet some buddy's to hit the water with also Yeh we had a sick dive down here couple weekends ago of bermi visibility was incredible and seen heaps of life and a solid grey nurse. Yewwww

[@Dstick1Spearfishing]

Nice Video Luke, great insight and advice, Happy new year to you all, hope xmas treated you nicely. Dive safe mate!

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

Cheers mate

[@antonoleinik6654]

Thanks Luke, great footage as always. We were there the other day and they were getting really close with us not even shooting anything.

[@J-B-P]

I absolutely love these vids!! 😍😍 it’s my dream to swim with sharks in the wild one day... I don’t live anywhere close to the ocean (Ontario, Canada) but they’re still my favourite animal

[@hughharrison4042]

This is epic mate good stuff

[@rorz2331]

Mean video bro! I’m pretty sure bronzies are still landed as bycatch by some commercial fishers but not being part of the QMS they are aloud to be discarded after caught by a com fisher. It would be interesting to see FishServe/MPIs numbers on bronzies caught in recent years.

[@eewwiinnss]

Great video, Just so some are aware, Omaha beach is just around the corner and recreational fisherman are baiting for Bronzies off the beach all the time. This may be another reason the numbers are increasing, its due also to the efforts of catch and release targeting this species on the northern east coast.

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

I think line fisherman are just taking advantage of the sharks being there. That’s prime bronzie habitat.

[@СергейГордин-п4р]

well done! Where is the New Year's cool video for 20 minutes?

[@ethandickey3380]

Definitely have noticed and increase in sharks this year have tagged some good size ones this season in the manakau and now are catching 40kg pups

[@hanoitripper1809]

Cool vid

[@jasonheyne9293]

"Gday crew" ..Aye aye Captain!

[@minosnaturenewzealand4674]

I've seen 2x bronzy in exactly same spot last month (Dec2020). Luckly I didn't have any fish with me but they circled around me about 15mins..🦈🦈

[@rachgrigg2447]

I stopped diving the point because of the bronzies. I think there's 2 or 3 that hang around.its my usual and I know a few others that dive there too. Certainly puts the shits up ya knowing they're lingering especially if you only have float line. In saying that there's been juvenile great whites at mangawhai heads recently too. Mixed bag up here

[@hanoitripper1809]

Good surf up mangawai

[@pejepeineFuerteventura]

impresiona!!!

[@kellanantunovich1951]

We went out recently and I got my first kingfish but had to give it to the circling sharks. Also this was my first experience with sharks

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

They love kingfish. I often leave kingfish alone around sharks.

[@kellanantunovich1951]

@@AquaticRehabSpearfishing yeah I found that out the hard way.

[@djangotaylor3591]

cheers man sick footage just wondering if you have ever had a bronzie attack and cause harm to yourself or divers you associate with as were i live in south west Australia the bronzie populations are starting to boom and become more brave and even starting to pull fish out of the hands of divers and i was wondering if we actually kneed to start being wary about there risks of these normally friendly sharks or if we should be unafraid and continue like normal

[@Jacedives]

I'd have to say the same thing with NSW, Shark species numbers are booming and they are really catching onto checking dive floats and learning the sound of guns firing as a dinner bell.

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

I have never had harm but there are a couple of really hectic situations where I expected it. When they get heated and grumpy and start charging divers to the point where spears are bending etc - that’s when I think spearos need to be wary. I think spearos targeting kingfish around them need to chill out on fish desperation but also blokes that are jigging need to lay off it on the spots where they are getting taxed all the time. Can’t see either of these happening but may as well voice my opinion.

[@djangotaylor3591]

@@AquaticRehabSpearfishing yeah cheers mate very understandable and i agree full heartily but over here i am chasing a fish called a dhu fish which expires really quickly yet these bronzies are still getting amped up which i think is starting to get a tad dangerous

[@justcaleb1897]

Hey Luke I just got a Hawaiian sling for Christmas and really want to get into spear fishing, I am only 14 so no rush. Do you have any good locations I could start out learning how to use my spear and catch some good fish with it, locations have to be 1-2 hours from Auckland

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

Mathersons bay and Ti point are often starting locations. Polespearing butterfish is a good start and they can be really flighty with all of the pressure locally.

[@justcaleb1897]

@@AquaticRehabSpearfishing thanks

[@adammcconnell-wood1679]

Yup had two sharks try to take my kingi off my in whitianga was solo diving so jumped on a rock and waited for my boat to come pick me up. They were still circling the rock for about 10 mins but got my kingi still. Did shit myself

[@AquaticRehabSpearfishing]

Hard case

[@charliezha4457]

Yeah nah yeah nah, I'm out as soon as I see shark

[@debramage739]

Thanks but no thanks, inherent fear. Thus, will never dive. Love watching you but. Cheers.

[@joekells1859]

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