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Nicole Tagged 22/2/02 Female 3.25m  - (MAP)

Named after actress Nicole Kidman was the first tiger to be caught and tagged at Raine Island. Her capture is featured in the documentary 'Shark Tracker' Nicole was accidentally caught and killed in a Barramundi fishing net on 22nd May 2002. The tag was reported to be free of fouling and still firmly attached to the dorsal fin which showed no ill effects.

Gordon Tagged 2/2/03 Male

Gordon was the first male tiger shark to be tagged at Raine Island. His capture features in the National Geographic documentary ' Natures Warzone'. Gordon was named after Gordon Oke our deckhand and father of the skipper of the vessel MV Floreat which was used as the base during the filming of the documentary. Gordon has been going to Raine Island since the 70s and is a wealth of information about the place
 

Ripley Tagged 28/12/03 Female 3.3m - (MAP)

Ripley named after the heroin in the Aliens movie which we where watching the night before she was caught. Ripley is the main shark featured in the National Geographic documentary ' Nature Warzone'. In fact we had filmed her eating a dead turtle a week before her capture. Ripley remained close to Raine Island until Easter

Linda Tagged 3rd Nov 2003 Female  - (MAP)

Linda was the first tiger to be caught using the 'Claw'. Named after Linda Rumney the wife of Undersea Explorer manager John Rumney

Lola Tagged 23rd Nov 2004 3.5m Female - (MAP)

Lola was our first privately sponsored tiger shark - sponsored and named by DIVERSIONS DIVE TRAVEL - www.diversionoz.com

Adam Tagged 3/12/05 Male 2.5m - (MAP)

Named after my long suffering assistant Adam Barnett who was on his last job with me before embarking on his own pHD project on seven gill sharks.
Throughout 2006 we received regular updates on Adams position - he stayed close to Raine Island and its reliable food throughout the summer months. Turtle nesting at Raine Island ends around Easter and so did Adams interest in the island he started to go on long journeys out into the coral sea but would always go back past Raine Island. This patterned continued throughout winter with Adam making longer journeys. We where totally overjoyed when summer was approaching again and we where still following Adam as he returned to the waters around Raine Island and started again to stay in close proximity.

Rainebow Tagged 26/11/06 Female 3.2m SPLASH TAG - (MAP)

We returned to Raine Island at the end of November on board the MV Floreat which had been chartered by '60 Minutes - Channel 9 Australia' to do a story on the importance of Raine Island. Surveys conducted during the week counted over 11 000 turtles on the beach in just one hour nesting. As luck would have it (and a bit of skill) we caught a tiger on the first day much to the relief of the 60 Minutes Producer Nick Greenaway. The tiger like all our tigers are caught using fish baits left floating on the surface on a 50 metre rope. This year however I had the idea to make massive baits using large tuna heads chained together so that they could survive numerous attacks by sharks.

Reporter Peter Overton helped catch the shark by pulling the rope, bait and the shark in close to the inflatable so I could snap the sharks tail using the claw. Channel 9 Australia and 60 Minutes had funded a new type of tag that would not only allow us to track the shark by satellite but also for the first time get information about the dive profile of the sharks - so we can know what depth ranges they are working. The shark called Rainebow will be a feature story on 60 minutes in Feb 2007.

Initial depth data - deepest dive - 400m

Broobry November 2006 3.3m female - (MAP)

Broobry took a whole day to catch. Every 40 minutes to one hour the same tiger would return to tease us and attack the tuna heads. When we tried to pull the baits closer she would let go.
Eventually after eight hours we got the shark along side and caught the shark with the claw. The shark, a 3.3  metre female Tiger later named 'Broobry' by one of the guests on Undersea Explorer - Bruce Paterson who sponsored the shark. The name is a combination of the names of his two nieces from Sydney Brooke and Bryony Paterson and his nephew Brodie Paterson from Scotland

Stacy 8/12/06 Female 2.95m - (MAP)

Stacy was the fastest caught tiger to date - the baits had only been in the water for twenty minutes before she was caught.
Stacy was sponsored by Jim Oates

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