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Hi,

What are you selling?

Welcome to the forum. Nice pics.

Where do you run the spearfishing charter out of? Link to website?

Sizing is not similar between OMER Millenium and Stinray foot pockets.

Omer stingray size 49-50 is the next logical choice. Available from spearfishing store https://spearfishing.store/omer-stingray-foot-pockets

I do have a doubt about your measurement because my foot is 28cm and size 45-46 is a little big on me. Your foot is only 2cm bigger.

Cressi gara modular and Mares razor are another option https://spearfishing.store/fin-foot-pockets/

Hi and welcome. Is this in Greece?

Welcome to the community.

Yellow Corvina, Gulf of Panama. Speardiver Raptor wetsuit.

Well done Tarick.

Don Paul with Pacific Cubara, Wahoo and Yellowtail.

Nice videography. How deep was the dentex?

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Don Paul was a one-off!

Exactly.

I spoke with Dillon Don's son, he told me Don passed in the early hours of Sunday Jan 22 at his home from health reasons.

I will forever keep Don in my thoughts. To me he was the embodiment of a real man. Adventurous, knowledgeable, calm, generous, willing to lend a hand, keenly aware of human nature on both the physical and psychological levels, overcoming life's challenges/obstacles not allowing it to defeat his own true character. In my life experience Don was a unique combination of rash yet intelligent, with supreme self confidence in his abilities to solve whatever problem he was faced with, be it making some machine work or putting himself on the track to wellness. Don always gave me the sense that he's capable of making everything right, and that the future will bring better things. All the more shocking to know that he succumbed. I can't help but feel that even so he went to the last moment undefeated on his own terms.

Don was a builder of things and an innovator. He applied this talent to speargun design. I believe some of his design contributions were used by Jay Riffe and are still part of every Riffe speargun. When I'd have a doubt about some mechanical feature or material characteristics Don was my go to friend to ask. He was always generous with his knowledge and time. At times when I'm stuck with building something that I can't work out, and remember to take a step back and think outside the box, then finally figure it out, I remember Don saying "That's when you know you're a creator of things".

I know that Don wanted to make a return to spearfishing for a long time. But life's trials got in the way and now the moment is gone. A lesson to all of us. Dillon, if you're reading this, know that whenever your dad talked about you I could sense how important you were to him, and that he was proud of you. Don not being quite old enough at about 15 years my senior, I still thought of him as a father figure. I think he was sensitive to that and so called me brother. But I knew that he was on a whole other level for me to be considered his equal. Maybe one day when I grow up.. I will miss you Don, you left too early.

Don Paul appearing in the Bluewater Hunters documentary circa 1990.

Don Paul 10 years ago.

Very professional content and editing. Is this your video?

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Hello everyone, how are you doing?

Welcome to the forum.

Congratz and good luck with your venture.

The leader fins are cheaply made, blades are slow/not snappy so you get little propulsion/return for your kicking effort. Stay away from fins where the foot pockets have short little tendons/arms like the ones with these forza leader fins, they're the latest fad out of china. The short foot pockets don't offer enough support for the blade and are missing the water channeling effect that's necessary to stabilize the fin. You get what you pay for.