How old is too old for spearfishing?

  • I'll turn 60 in a couple of months and looking forward to continuing the sport as long as I can. You "old farts" are my inspiration.


    Funny thing is as I read you post I thought to myself..''Wow this guy is diving at 60'' then I stopped and thought ''holly cow, I'm almost 65''.:@


    The only time I don't feel 25 is when I wake up each morning feeling all the stupid shite I've done to my body over the years, and I don't mean drinking or drugs.


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

  • Hit 70 this year, wear rubber pants and breath thru a tube 4-5 days a week 6-8 hrs a day. Collect stipend from SS and sell a few fish and lobsters for $ to buy more supplies.
    Funny how simple physical tasks out of water are so painful but suspended in water is pain free. The real work starts pulling my kayak out of the water and cleaning fish. After selling catch it's off to the recliner with a 'painkiller', 2 shots rum,3 tal spoons cream de coconut, 1 oz orange juice, fill the rest of the mug with pineapple juice, stir, grind nutmeg over top and add ice. Nectar of the gods!
    Pretty much limited to 60 ft but most productive fishing depths for me range 20-40 ft. Yes, I dive alone and prefer it that way for fishing ( my work ), I don't advocate my preference to the young ones I often recreational fish with on week ends.
    Biggest regret is my trigger finger is bending over to the right,


    Note for other 'old' guys; your ass is your worst enemy, the longer you stay off it the longer you will be active!

    Triple by pass in 2000 - prostatectomy 2002, radiation 2004, threw all meds away( developed reaction) , simplified my life and moved to this Island. Today everything is 'todo buena'.

  • Yeah that's the spirit !
    Dam now I feel good !...can't wait to try your after work meds tonight ;) :thumbsup2:


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

  • Do we all do come crazy shit when we turn 60? I'll be 61 a week from today. But this last year....built a new house....then I almost moved to Vietnam. Got a great job offer, spent three months there, great job.....BUT...they wanted me to live in Ho Chi Minh City. 15 million people. It scared the hell of me just being there. I thought, "what if I lose sight of Willy for 5 minutes"??? brrrrrrr
    So I told them, sorry, no can do. If you want, I can do short term project work for you. Then I hauled ass back to Belize and bought this boat. (I'd sold the Carrot Juice. It needed repowered but I thought I was moving to Vietnam too and didn't want her just sitting here)
    This boat....almost named her the Hell Bitch....so ugly. haha. But it's hard core, thick hull, 28 feet (3 feet longer than Carrot Juice). Great ride, planes at 2800 rpms. A 90 ETEC...uses 60% of the gas that the twin 40 Yamahas did. And named her Alene, after my baby daughter. Plus, nothing like a new project to keep me happy. I had to put a console, lights, bilge, mount the new motor, the bimini....took a couple weeks after buying the boat to get her in the water. And had to have the trailer fabricated here.
    This was our maiden trip. Jake was here for two weeks. He got the cubera. Anyway....life is back to normal after a brain spasm....The Crazy 60s?....:laughing:




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  • Hank, looking at the first image with that cold staring eye she looks looks like a Balaenoptera musculus :D ;)


    Cheers. Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

  • I had to Google that. Blue Whale? The boat light or the eye of the cubera?

    So you're back in Belize for good, Hanky Panky?


    Good to know... ;)

    I think so, Marco. You never know. But before we too old, it'd be great to hook up. Maybe even get George over here. That'd be cool....and Oscar. Even if we don't get fish, it'd be fun enough listening to Oscar give George shit all day about his wetsuit, guns, and whatever else he could think of. :laughing:

  • I think so, Marco. You never know. But before we too old, it'd be great to hook up. Maybe even get George over here. That'd be cool....and Oscar. Even if we don't get fish, it'd be fun enough listening to Oscar give George shit all day about his wetsuit, guns, and whatever else he could think of. :laughing:


    Georgie Porgie is a kook.


    Damn that would be fun.


    I received 5 cortisone shots while "under" this morning in my neck. Been having issues and MRI showed some degeneration - probably from an injury in the early eighties while on a sailing/diving vacation in the Virgin Islands living on a sailboat. Dove from a tree branch into clear clear water and hit sandy bottom - HARD. MJ might have been a factor :nono::@

  • Wow Oscar. I hope all is well with that. Our past catches up with us and we pay in pain.


    Yep - had we know we would live this long - we would have behaved differently - or not. :laughing:

  • A guy in Hawaii, Pete, is 82 and diving 3 times a week. Has a 5 minute static breath hold. One of Daryl Wong's buddies.
    My buddy Andre is 77. He'd be out there every week but now that I'm gone, he doesn't have a buddy with a boat.

  • Age 54, but feel like 34! I think having 8 kids, 5 of which are active, athletic boys who all share my passion for the waterman's way of life has kept me young and feeling as though my age is simply a number denoting my years of experience and not the age of my body. Having a passion for activity, not living life on a couch, and wanting to be there to enjoy adventures with my kids are keys for me in thinking I'm younger than 54. The only issue for me has been that recovery time for injuries has increased! I've broken ribs, torn rotator cuffs, and had surgery to repair the ligament on both thumbs as results of motocross and surfing "mishaps!" I don't usually hang out with guys my age on the golf course or sit in the diner sipping coffee reminiscing of "the good ole days." My golden years are now...while my boys still like doing things with their dad. I also attribute my "youthfulness" to my wife's farm girl way of feeding us...raising free range chickens for eggs, goats milk from our goats, fresh fruits and vegetables, home made meals, and of course, the fresh fish we enjoy.


    Nickmal, way to go man. Glad to see the young at heart doing what they love. A total inspiration.


    Aloha!

    HUI KOA KAI O HAMAKUA
    MAHALO KE AKUA
    E MALAMA I KE KAI

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