I wont go past 65 ft.

YOU DIVE ALONE,WHAT THE $#@%:nio::nio::wtf1:

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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I don't know.

This is the limit I set myself. I always dive alone so I gotta watch out for myself. But I feel I can go past 65 ft. and wanna do it, but I FEAR the BO.

I feel that the FEAR limits my potential.

I can't get a buddy because there's only about 50 freedivers (that know what to do incase of BO and I don't know them) out of 100 million people in my country.

Basically, I'm just asking from your experience. Is hovering around 65 ft safe enough? Can I go deeper? I just have so many doubts because of the FEAR.

Thanks!

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Make a friend who dives, or train a friend to spearfish with you. Diving alone may result in 49 freedivers.

If you need to dive alone, which I dont think anyone needs to dive alone. Stay shallower than 1atm around 30 ft. and do not push past your limit, dont even get near your limit of breathholds. (and thats no fun) With that said accidents can always happen in any depth of water, so if you choose to dive alone, nobody here to stop you, or save you. (sorry to be blunt but it needs to be said)

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Make a friend who dives, or train a friend to spearfish with you. Diving alone may result in 49 freedivers.

If you need to dive alone, which I dont think anyone needs to dive alone. Stay shallower than 1atm around 30 ft. and do not push past your limit, dont even get near your limit of breathholds. (and thats no fun) With that said accidents can always happen in any depth of water, so if you choose to dive alone, nobody here to stop you, or save you. (sorry to be blunt but it needs to be said)

After spending a couple months in Hawaii (over the course of a few trips) I'd have to say that's much easier there than on the mainland. Wayyyy different spearfishing culture & culture in general. I may just be cynical of most people but living in south Florida and diving with a lot of different people I more often than not never picked up the phone by choice before heading to the beach. It's been a few years since then though and spearfishing has become a lot more "mainstream".

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After spending a couple months in Hawaii (over the course of a few trips) I'd have to say that's much easier there than on the mainland. Wayyyy different spearfishing culture & culture in general. I may just be cynical of most people but living in south Florida and diving with a lot of different people I more often than not never picked up the phone by choice before heading to the beach. It's been a few years since then though and spearfishing has become a lot more "mainstream".

I can see that. Most divers here have basically grown up in and around water, so i can see how my opinion is a bit biased. But the fact is, no matter what youre doing, whether diving, fishing, hunting, opihi picking (especially) you dont go alone, or at least let someone know where youre going. I have classmates and friends who've passed away, doing what they love, things they've done all their lives.

Pullboy, sorry for pushing this subject, I think its important though. If you gotta dive alone, know your limits, and dont make it a habit, cuz its a bad one.

All things considered, I can't think of better way to go than SWB. This of course after I've lived my life to the fullest, done my best for my family and friends, and can no longer do so. Dive alone? **** yeah!

BTW and completely unrelated.. I sometimes wonder if the walking dead could possibly float or walk over the seafloor to an island :thinking:

I never dive alone... Mother Ocean, God, and my skill sets and experience are always there with me.

Mahalo, Don

Hey Pullbuoy,

What do mean you don't know the Filipino freedivers? In this age of Facebook everyone "knows" each other:D. I personally must have about a handful of spearo/freedive FB friends from the Philippines. There's even a group of Filipino friends who travel for spearing in your country and posts videos on youtube.

So, just start asking around and you might find some - it kinda sounds like you skipped that step...?

The times I have dared asking to tag along with strangers, share a boat or just hang out and talk spearing, I have never been turned down.
We are all in this together, so as long as we treat each other with respect, behave somewhat normal and are willing to learn and share, I feel like very few divers would shun another diver.

Obviously, not all freedivers spear, but start looking - I do know there are spearos in Manila, Cebu/Mactan and Bohol/Panglao.

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All things considered, I can't think of better way to go than SWB. This of course after I've lived my life to the fullest, done my best for my family and friends, and can no longer do so. Dive alone? **** yeah!

BTW and completely unrelated.. I sometimes wonder if the walking dead could possibly float or walk over the seafloor to an island :thinking:

In WWZ (the book not the movie) Zombies walk the seafloor and climb up anchors and are fought by Marines in submersable armor.:thumbsup2::thumbsup2: I enjoy Walking Dead, but i love WWZ (the book not the movie)

Pullbuoy, hows the diving in the Philippines? What kind of fish are you targeting?

I'll venture a slightly educated guess but hope Pullbuoy actually has better success...:-)

In general, the Philippines is pretty overfished. There is still some game fish around but you really have to travel to get to them.
In most places, the reefs are crazily overfished. There are just too many people depending on the waters with no sort of proper alternative. So, any sized fish is kosher to take in any way.
Can't blame people for wanting to feed their families, so no blame from me.

I have actually been spearing a bit there and, not kidding you, I was in the water when someone was dynamite fishing up ahead. Once I got there, a banga (local boat) took off and when I looked down there were about 30 small fish lying stunned on the bottom covering an area, say, 30-45 feet by 30-45 feet. (I dunno why they were on the bottom, I thought they would have floated up.)

I've seen nets/boxes on the bottom with tiny, tiny groupers in them and I have seen scuba divers take groupers from the reefs, too. So, lapu-lapu (grouper) seems to be doing particularly bad.

I've come across the odd trevally but fewer than in eg. Thailand and nothing too big (still, OK BBQ size). Also, same with rainbow runners and smallish barracudas. Some of the biggest I have run into are Milkfish, but I haven't dared shooting at them yet - though they get biggish. Supposedly, milkfish females over a certain size are not legal to take, so I need to educate myself on that before trying to take one.

That said, I did see my first ever tunas in the Philippines. I was coming up from a dive and two of them just cruised over my shoulder. They seemed to hardly be moving their tails but still zipped right by me so fast I didn't even get to think about shooting. Definitely a beautiful creature. Maybe the biggest one was about a meter long.

I am pretty sure I also saw a doggie cruise along a ledge at about 100 feet while on a scuba dive looking for hammerheads (didn't see any). So, there are still fish but not easy pickings at all.

There is a German freediving instructor living and working there who has taken some really nice Spanish Macks, Doggies and other pelagics. But he has always had to travel quite a bit to get to them.

That said, since I am in China, the Philippines is kinda my nearest place and I will def go look for fish there in the future.