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28/06/2007: "SEAL ROCKS SHARK DIVERS ...... Jocelyn & Christine"
JUNE 2007 was shark month here, mostly pictures featuring Grey Nurse Sharks with divers and illustrating the remarkable comeback this species has made in the last two decades.
Consequently the (mostly) inexperienced-with-diving eco-media journalists get tricked with the misleading endangered numbers theme.
Some well-meaning, poorly informed folk apparently took a bit of a guess and came up with the figure of 500 which today is often quoted as being all the grey nurse left, - never adding this 500 figure represents what is thought to exist at the dozen or so popular well-dived visitor dive sites. DEFINATELY NOT the entire coastal ocean reefs as is insinuated.
Journalists trust whoever is passing to them the details seemingly in the past without checking other information and sources. JH
