Providing spearfishing locations AKA spots IS NOT the purpose of Spearfishing World forum. Our members freely share information about spearfishing equipment, diving techniques, hunting techniques, spearfishing regulations, and many other things, but should keep their spots to themselves. Knowing where to dive is the part of spearfishing where everyone has to pay their dues, going out and finding spots by themselves, or contributing to the forum for a while and making friends who will then invite you to their spots. Simply being a member here for a few days is not any reason to be given spearfishing locations.
New members may ask for locations this way: I want to go spearfishing out of ***** where can I go? Or, I read that there there are reef lines when diving from ***** how long of a swim is it to first one? In response to such questions the member should be politely directed to this post.
Some of you may think this is a harsh policy. Then perhaps you haven't seen depleted sea areas. Being a public forum anyone can read the posts. Do you want to continue getting fish from your spots? Then support the forum's policy of not giving out information about specific spearfishing locations online. Being a member puts you under no obligation to share this information with another member, never mind the thousands of people you don't know about who will read your posts. If you feel you really want to share a location with a person you hardly know, why not do it in a pm? Maybe you think that it doesn't matter because everybody already knows about a certain area, or maybe you know it's dead and don't even dive there any more, how do you think it got that way?