Getting bait for Shark Fishing

When Balls made a difference...:)

Christian P, handling the Hammerhead´s Dorsal fin, with pride!
Walt Stearns Filming the Shark






Waiting...

Have we got another one?

Working a Shark

Willie Howard coverage on our work: "PalmBeachPost.com"

quotation:

Reproduction patterns key to lemon's survival

By Willie Howard

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Samuel "Doc" Gruber and fellow shark researchers have been fishing the ocean off Palm Beach County again this winter, catching and tagging adult lemon sharks in hopes of solving some of the mysteries of shark reproduction.

A marine biologist with the University of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Gruber has studied lemon sharks since he was a graduate student in 1960. But it was only five years ago that diver Walt Stearns sent him photos of adult lemon sharks gathering during the winter in the waters off Jupiter.

Lemon shark research
The shark doctor: Samuel 'Doc' Gruber of the University of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has been studying lemon sharks since 1960. In recent years, Gruber has been doing research on lemon sharks in the waters around Bimini, off Brazil, in the Marquesas Keys (west of Key West) and in the waters off Palm Beach County.
Palm Beach County sharks: Divers noticed groups of adult lemon sharks off Jupiter in the winter of 2002 and reported them to Gruber, who has been coming to South Florida to observe and tag them every winter since.
More information: For more about shark researcher Samuel Gruber and his Bimini Biological Field Station, go online to www.miami.edu/sharklab.

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More soon! Photos & Videos as well!

Scientists hit mother load of Lemon Sharks

Images: Courtesy of Tony Grogan

One of the biggest Lemons we got!


Inserting the Transmitters

Capt. Mike and the "Dykoke"

Transmitter

Steve, Christian, Artur and Doc Gruber

Tony G, "Enterprise"

Walt Stearns...do you want to get closer than that??...
An Excellent diver, photographer and most of all a BZ man, to go on these waters up and personal with the Sharks

De hooking the Shark

Tissue sample for DNA

Tagging

Getting the Shark ready and secure for us to work.

Paddle: a nice tool to help controlling the Shark..or at least something for them to bite on, instead of us:)
Although sometimes some Sharks are quite smart, and they just take a little bit of the paddle, therefore trying to be able to bite something else besides the paddle. After all...all those humans handling it, tie it, and holding him close by a boat..So whenever these guys get a chance, they will try to get you!:)
And for those who don´t know...Lemons can bite their own tails, so their pretty fast twisting their snout backwards.

There´s a post on Spearboard, from Tony Grogan (SpearMax) with his own perspective of all this

Take a look at it on:

The Spearboard:
http://www.spearboard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41884

It´s interesting to have others points of view and descritpion on the work we have all done.

Once again, a Great Thanks to Tony Grogan and Mike Newman for making this possible.