Thank you Dan, I would never have guessed that.
BTW, are you allowed to use a small gaff to drag crays from their holes. In the early 1960's a mate of mine wired a large hook to a Rangoon cane handle that was about 4 ft long (an off-cut from a beach rod that he was building).
We dived on Voodoo reef at Kurnell where there was a cave that was less than 1M high that we could just fit into with very long broad leaf weed growing on the rock above the cave entry. We would wait for the wave action to sweep the weed back from the opening, dive down and enter the cave up to our waist where we could turn and see crays in a narrow ledge at the back of the cave. By this time the weed would be swept back over the entrance so that we had to wait until the weed went back again to see before trying to grab a cray. Getting them by hand proved very difficult so my mate used the "gaff" to hook a cray out, grab it and then wait for the weed to sweep back, then back out of the cave before we could surface.
Sounds illegal doesn't? And a little reckless.
Very fit in our diving days, could hold our breath over 4 minutes and actually did a 100 FT free dive (on a sunken Japanese wreck from WW II) in Bougainville New Guinea in 1969. Only once, that was enough.
Cheers
Paikea
