From the limited research I have done the current models are all interchangeable but the new ones use a female plug to connect to the unit and I believe the Freedom 4 uses a male pin arrangement...
if your 7 shark shield is fully charged or not its irrelevent - a big white in full attack mode is gonna eat you and and shit your shark shield out the next day. I am easily the most passionate swimmer, snorkeller, day and night scuba diver oceaney person around - you me and anybody else who reads this will almost certainly never gonna get eaten or even be seen by a killer shark just swim, spear, snorkel, dive or surf or whatever you do forget about the sharks - im going off because the f@$#%^n sharks have always been around - its only now that the media have got hold of it and it arouses our deep primal fears - shit there are suddenly lots of predators cruising our beaches well guess what they were doing that long before we even learnt how to light a fire - just really pissed off cos people i used to dive with suddenly dont dive anymore and they blurt out lots of reasons why but strangely none of the excuses involve GWS's - ok had my whinge nothing personal- on you mate cheers dave
Might be an idea to get in touch with the manufacturer and check the specs as a competent sparky could change the plug (if it is different) and if there is a chance that it will give a shark a second thought before it tastes you ..I say wear it !
haha fish-on I don't use one and do a bit of spearfishing (got steep point in jan) I guess when it's your time to go it's your time ! hope I have a bit of time left ;)
Rusty
Rather be wearing a shark sheild than not wearing one if a big one comes to check you out - 99% of the time they realise your not their normal prey and want a cautious look first.
I wonder how many of you people who say "when it your time it's your time" or "it wont stop
a shark in full attack mode so why bother with one" how may have wifes and children or grandchildren ?not many I would think and if you do do you say to them when your going for a dive "i may not come home today cos I could get eaten by a shark but it's ok cos when it's your time it's your time" I think maybe you should think of them instead of yourselfs. if theres
a chance of saving your life then why not use one for $600 it's worth it'
Not for me lads it's for a mate. I have a freedom 4 and have only used it a couple of times. My mates been diving for the last 25 plus years and he is getting one. He has dived at Gove,windy harbour and now were mainly off binningup/Preston. Last few dives he has seen 10-12 foot sharks mostly nurses but a couple of bronzies. He said he would never use one ever. Had the same" well if it's my turn it's my turn to go". Now he wants one, probably one of the best divers I've ever had the pleasure to know. Personnel choice to use or not is your own, but don't rag me/mate for using them just because you don't.
rubbed up the wrong way with my little outburst, it was late on saturday night and i had downed a few beers after a mate cancelled a nice deep night dive off mindarie on sunday night that i had been looking forward to (he gott pissed last weekend which helped him get over his shark fear at the time so he said lets go night diving the following sunday night off mindarie so i held him to it cause i fucken love a good night dive out there then he cancelled after he realised what he got himself into and was suddenly "a bit too tired(friggin whoos} im also shitty that mindarie dive has had to shut shop cos of all the shark shit going on but it was good to see michael from western blue dive charters out there on sunday arvo with a boat of diving customers while i was fishing anyway apologies again to you and anybody else i may have ticked off cheers guys dave
FWIW lads, my mate has a friend in south Australia who is a full blown dive with the whites type of guy. Takes people down to see them.He talked to them today and said cancel the shield. Asked why and he said, they have tried a shield after they chummed up and separate days when they didn't do anything at all,each time the white came up and banged on the cage with no shoo factor from the shield at all. They do it for a living and they don't use one. Personnel preferance I guess, but it's sort of confirms it to me, they won't stop a big dharma if they want a feed. It's not a serum or anything, just passing on a message from my mate.
apart from spearos I don’t think many divers are chumming up, which probably does the impact the effectiveness of the shield, ie sharks are generally cautious unless in a feeding frenzy which chumming puts them into.
personal choice though I always wear mine on ocean dives for my family and my own peace of mind.
i haven’t seen a shark since I have been diving with one but consider it to be a likely proposition one day and hopefully it gives me enough time to take evasive action
I';m not a diver, ok but it seems to me if you wind up a gw by feeding it and getting it into a feeding frame of mind it is going to take a hell of a lot to take it's mind of food.
Yes I have read that on some days you didn't offer any chum at all, but the site of the cage being associated with a feed could well prompt the GW to bang on the cage to get you to give it a feed.
I don't believe there is anything on this earth that will save you if "your time is up", be it a car with umpteen air bags or be you in a tank, nothing in life is guaranteed IMO.
So why expect it from a shark shield, from what I have read they (the makers) do not guarantee that you will not be eaten by a GW, what they say is that with a shark shield operating your chances of being eaten are markedly reduced.
Now if you wear a wet suit that is black like a seal, use split flippers that look like a seals flippers, you for all intent and purposes are a seal.
If I was in a jungle and a lion walked past I would take prudent measures to keep me out of his way, IMO same with GWs.
I would not hold my breath thinking that they will bring in a cull or other drastic measures to reduce their number in the near future. The government has made plenty of dollars available to peps so the can purchase a shark shield at a reduced rate to change from that track is to admit that providing shark shield money was a fail effort is not on the horizon that I can see.
Don't think that I'm an anti diver type, I'm not it's just the way I see things at the moment, I wish you safe diving over the Christmas break and long into the future.
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Dont believe they do
From the limited research I have done the current models are all interchangeable but the new ones use a female plug to connect to the unit and I believe the Freedom 4 uses a male pin arrangement...
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Shortylook
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Cheers mate
Cheers mate
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shortylook i dont wanna piss you or any other guys off but -
if your 7 shark shield is fully charged or not its irrelevent - a big white in full attack mode is gonna eat you and and shit your shark shield out the next day. I am easily the most passionate swimmer, snorkeller, day and night scuba diver oceaney person around - you me and anybody else who reads this will almost certainly never gonna get eaten or even be seen by a killer shark just swim, spear, snorkel, dive or surf or whatever you do forget about the sharks - im going off because the f@$#%^n sharks have always been around - its only now that the media have got hold of it and it arouses our deep primal fears - shit there are suddenly lots of predators cruising our beaches well guess what they were doing that long before we even learnt how to light a fire - just really pissed off cos people i used to dive with suddenly dont dive anymore and they blurt out lots of reasons why but strangely none of the excuses involve GWS's - ok had my whinge nothing personal- on you mate cheers dave
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http://www.youtube.com/watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNCedUi_jPg
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I go agree with beeroclock i
I go agree with beeroclock i do loads of thing things the ocean and i ahve seen many people give up going into the water and i just don't get it
If a shark is hungry and wants a feed it will take anything.
Thousands of people die each year from cars and let's say 6 die from shark attacks each year
We are just going into there teritory what do you expect.
Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger
crano
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He just asked about chargers
He just asked about chargers for Sharkshields not your opinion on them.
Doooma
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Exactly!
Exactly!
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Well said Crano the man just
Well said Crano the man just wanted info not the greens view of the world
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BACK TO THE QUESTION
Hi Shorty ,
Might be an idea to get in touch with the manufacturer and check the specs as a competent sparky could change the plug (if it is different) and if there is a chance that it will give a shark a second thought before it tastes you ..I say wear it !
my 2c worth haha
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FISH-ON
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yeh sorry
yeh sorry
Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger
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haha fish-on I don't use one
haha fish-on I don't use one and do a bit of spearfishing (got steep point in jan) I guess when it's your time to go it's your time ! hope I have a bit of time left ;)
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Paul H
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Rather be wearing a shark
Rather be wearing a shark sheild than not wearing one if a big one comes to check you out - 99% of the time they realise your not their normal prey and want a cautious look first.
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My thoughts
I wonder how many of you people who say "when it your time it's your time" or "it wont stop
a shark in full attack mode so why bother with one" how may have wifes and children or grandchildren ?not many I would think and if you do do you say to them when your going for a dive "i may not come home today cos I could get eaten by a shark but it's ok cos when it's your time it's your time" I think maybe you should think of them instead of yourselfs. if theres
a chance of saving your life then why not use one for $600 it's worth it'
Rusty Balls
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I am with you Paul h ...I
I am with you Paul h ...I just don't have one ........
And for the 1 or 2 trips a year I am fine with not having one and so is my wife.
but if anyone wants to lend me one I shall trial it at steep point for them -__-
I also fly planes without a parachute ..just a thought !
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- But I hope you wear a
- But I hope you wear a seatbelt when you drive :-)
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:)
:)
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Not for me lads it's for a
Not for me lads it's for a mate. I have a freedom 4 and have only used it a couple of times. My mates been diving for the last 25 plus years and he is getting one. He has dived at Gove,windy harbour and now were mainly off binningup/Preston. Last few dives he has seen 10-12 foot sharks mostly nurses but a couple of bronzies. He said he would never use one ever. Had the same" well if it's my turn it's my turn to go". Now he wants one, probably one of the best divers I've ever had the pleasure to know. Personnel choice to use or not is your own, but don't rag me/mate for using them just because you don't.
Cheers for the links too guys
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hey shortylook apologies to you and anyone else i may have
rubbed up the wrong way with my little outburst, it was late on saturday night and i had downed a few beers after a mate cancelled a nice deep night dive off mindarie on sunday night that i had been looking forward to (he gott pissed last weekend which helped him get over his shark fear at the time so he said lets go night diving the following sunday night off mindarie so i held him to it cause i fucken love a good night dive out there then he cancelled after he realised what he got himself into and was suddenly "a bit too tired(friggin whoos} im also shitty that mindarie dive has had to shut shop cos of all the shark shit going on but it was good to see michael from western blue dive charters out there on sunday arvo with a boat of diving customers while i was fishing anyway apologies again to you and anybody else i may have ticked off cheers guys dave
derko5000
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hey????? is mindarie dive
hey????? is mindarie dive shop shut down too? so has hookah in wangara, u know where a close one is still open in that area? cheers mate
Shortylook
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All good mate.
All good mate.
Shortylook
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FWIW lads, my mate has a
FWIW lads, my mate has a friend in south Australia who is a full blown dive with the whites type of guy. Takes people down to see them.He talked to them today and said cancel the shield. Asked why and he said, they have tried a shield after they chummed up and separate days when they didn't do anything at all,each time the white came up and banged on the cage with no shoo factor from the shield at all. They do it for a living and they don't use one. Personnel preferance I guess, but it's sort of confirms it to me, they won't stop a big dharma if they want a feed. It's not a serum or anything, just passing on a message from my mate.
happy fishing
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Chum
apart from spearos I don’t think many divers are chumming up, which probably does the impact the effectiveness of the shield, ie sharks are generally cautious unless in a feeding frenzy which chumming puts them into.
personal choice though I always wear mine on ocean dives for my family and my own peace of mind.
i haven’t seen a shark since I have been diving with one but consider it to be a likely proposition one day and hopefully it gives me enough time to take evasive action
fishy fingers
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Thats interesting
maybe he should contact the manufacturers and let them know I'm sure they would be interested to know that.
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A bit puzzeld
I';m not a diver, ok but it seems to me if you wind up a gw by feeding it and getting it into a feeding frame of mind it is going to take a hell of a lot to take it's mind of food.
Yes I have read that on some days you didn't offer any chum at all, but the site of the cage being associated with a feed could well prompt the GW to bang on the cage to get you to give it a feed.
I don't believe there is anything on this earth that will save you if "your time is up", be it a car with umpteen air bags or be you in a tank, nothing in life is guaranteed IMO.
So why expect it from a shark shield, from what I have read they (the makers) do not guarantee that you will not be eaten by a GW, what they say is that with a shark shield operating your chances of being eaten are markedly reduced.
Now if you wear a wet suit that is black like a seal, use split flippers that look like a seals flippers, you for all intent and purposes are a seal.
If I was in a jungle and a lion walked past I would take prudent measures to keep me out of his way, IMO same with GWs.
I would not hold my breath thinking that they will bring in a cull or other drastic measures to reduce their number in the near future. The government has made plenty of dollars available to peps so the can purchase a shark shield at a reduced rate to change from that track is to admit that providing shark shield money was a fail effort is not on the horizon that I can see.
Don't think that I'm an anti diver type, I'm not it's just the way I see things at the moment, I wish you safe diving over the Christmas break and long into the future.
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Try explaining that side of
Try explaining that side of the story to the villagers in Africa that get knocked off by lions because of their protection.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?