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15/10/2006: "RON ZANGARI (left) BRIAN RODGER ....Riversong 1964"

Brian Rodger was the South Australian spear fishing champion who survived a white pointer shark bite through skill and exceptional stamina.

He rarely speaks about it today. The attack occured a considerable distance offshore at Aldinga Reef, South Australia. He saved his own life by making a tornique with his speargun rubber and swimming kilometers back to shore for help.

Brian was invited to join this expedition which worked very effectively around Wreck Island and within the Fitzroy Reef lagoon, just three years after his shark ordeal.

He had to experience bull sharks eating coral trout from his spear on this trip. A bit of a worry when three or four sharks are in competition with each other for food.

Twenty years later Captain Wally Muller (of Riversong) could remember exactly how many hundred kilo's of coral trout were speared during a couple of special days. It was never to be repeated.