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02/02/2006: "SPEAR FISHERMEN ........Blue Groper (1963)"

Sydney Sea Hunters Mike Melville, JH and Garry Flanaghan with the same blue groper.

This was a tongue-in-cheek example of how the same fish could be made to look larger by using a max depth-of-field setting on the camera. i.e. f22.

Several people photographed with the same grey nurse shark also happened all the time and contributed to the myth that divers alone were killing hundreds of these now protected, and apparently very migratory sharks.

It now emerges these and other probabilities have been studied by Australian dive culture historian Mel Brown. More info later.