Dave Pearson

I would like to talk with them.

I was fortunate that I had a meeting with the Department of Prime Industries and they came and identified the species of shark and the size.

And it was part of a documentary that they were doing due to bull shark attacks in Sydney Harbour.

So my attack being by a bull shark was on their radar and they came and had a chat with me.

So straight away, I formed a relationship with the head scientist from the Department of Prime Industries.

And I guess originally it was a...

a love hate relationship that they're all excited about catching and tagging sharks and finding out what they're doing.

And one of their tag sharks was off Crowdy the day I was attacked.

And, um, so I had that originally was like, wow, you know, here's a shark that's being caught that possibly could have been the one that bit me.

If they took it out of the equation back then, would I still be all right?

So, you know, straight away you start thinking things like that.

And, um,

It was, you know, obviously I'm not happy if you've caught the thing and then let it go and it bit me.

But honestly, that doesn't bother me anymore, that sort of thing.

And we meet quite regular and he's a lovely guy.

The first one we got was a young lady in WA who'd been attacked by a crocodile.

And, yeah, she got in touch and said, look, you know, I've got no one who's been able to talk to.

Can I join up with you guys?

And I just went, of course you can.

And then from then, you know, later on we had a girl who'd been attacked by a lion, same situation.