Reefchief's oceanic adventures

Thanks guys.

Dan, you found my not so secret hidden talent. The 9 year olds on youtube that do it in a fraction of the time forced me to add the novelty of breath hold :laughing:

I really enjoy that the go-pro does 60FPS so you can do those slowmo shots. I hate that the shot is usually 1-2 frames total in most videos cause its hard to see what happened beyond "bands on" "Bands off". In my dreams my camera does 400fps and you can get shots of the shaft leaving the gun.

Quote from Dan

I think I recognize your method. It's the long methodical way that I learned as a kid over 30 years ago. Human physiology is an incredible thing. I don't remember the sequences, especially the last one which is the longest, not having played with rubik's cube since I was a child. But when my hands touch the cube, which I've done a couple of times since, they still remember the sequences. It was a big deal for me as a kid and I practiced it quite a bit. Back then you had to buy a book that would teach you how to solve it. I'm sure there's a way of looking at the cube that will solve it in a minimum number of turns, but I'll leave that to the flexible minds inclined that way.

Yes exactly its the algorithms/layers way of doing it. Each layer and corner has a repeatable algorithm to solve it or move a piece where it needs to go. As you said, there are much more elegant solutions to solving it. But they basically require remembering an exponentially larger number of moves and being good at using the right ones. My mind stopped being that flexible a long time ago if it ever was:crazy:.

And you are so right that once you learn it it becomes muscle memory. Ive tried to teach a few people and couldn't tell them the first thing about what I do until I pick up the cube and see the turns I do.

Going out tomorrow. Taking every chance I get and it looks like its gonna be nice. Hopefully its cleared up some this week.

Out of port Everglades on my pops boat, probably to the hollywood area, perhaps cuda reef. I'm being forced to first mate his fishing trip in exchange for diving. I live a tough life lol.

Today did not go as expected but still turned out pretty well for me. Not as much for my dad.:( His boat had some fuel troubles we noticed after leaving the ramp. We ended up having our buddies who were on the way out tow us in. Since it didn't look like it could be resolved dockside I jumped on the same buddies boat who was going to hookah for lobster.

we headed south to the hollywood area second reef.

Weather waves and water started absolutely beautiful. Current was minimal, clear top to bottom viz on the second reef. As the day progressed the viz got worse and the current and wind picked up big time.

The boat I was on is a good friend and Ive dove with them before. basically I stick in the vicinity of the divers but ahead trying to fish out ledges etc before they come bubbling in:snorkle2:. I also help them look for lobster and point them to the good spots I can see from above.

Early in the morning I got a decent little schoolmaster. Some real fatties were teasing me but I couldn't stay long enough to wait them out. A while later I got a real nice mangrove. Then later in the day got a hog. Shot about 6 very small lion fish too. And the hookah divers got 6 bugs.

As the day progressed colder water moved in and it was pretty chilly for me. Kind of slowed me down a bit. I need to start bringing the top half of my speardiver open cell for these kinds of things.

Worked on my man-labratory today. Having a whole room to fill up with dive gear/bikes/books/tools instead of a closet is great. Installed pegboard for tools on one wall and dive gear on the other.

Also picked up a banks board from Dan. Really looking forward to doing a lot more shore diving with it. Thanks again Dan :D:D

Quote from JimCuda

I have a 4'x8' pegboard and pegs sitting in my basement for a year now. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

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I dont blame you, Its quite a pain to hang the stuff. They have kits that use little spacers but I find that makes wavy floppy pegboard, I put up wood strips and mounted the boards to that.

Here is the other side of the room.

Also great idea for the lines, just bought a few of those things on amazon.:thumbsup2:

Visited Dan today to get a reel on my Speardiver carbon 120. I really like a floatline usually, but sometimes I need something for those situations where a floatline is too cumbersome. Ive found myself shooting with nothing but a shooting line one too many times. So I went over Speardiver HQ and Dan did a ton of work and an exceptional job on the install. We disassembled, epoxied inside the tube in the area where the reel mounted, and reassembled. If I like the reel we will epoxy on the reel base for a little more security.

I cant wait to try this thing out this weekend. Hopefully sat will be as good as the forecast predicts. You could say im reely excited.

Ive been talking with Dan about wanting a hole gun, and also about wanting to build a gun. And today he came up with a pretty awesome idea. Use a short unfinished teak blank he had lying around and build a hole gun.

Im really excited about putting this thing together. Dan got me started with a nice enclosed track and shaping on the blank. I picked up a Speardiver reverse trigger mech and I started working on a template for the handle. Going to power it with one 19mm band. And all said and done it should be about 85cm or 33.3333 inches.

Hopefully I find some things in holes to shoot it at. But if not It will be great practice/cadaver for a longer gun.

Thanks again Dan for the hardwork and expertise.