Posts by Dan

Simple and effective, thanks Daniel. I don't see why this wouldn't work with any snorkel. That said I prefer to mount the gopro directly on the mask, this way I know it's always pointing where I'm looking.

Speardiver Stealth Mask with Gopro Mount

There's something I'm not clear on. The base plate of the handle is thick, that's a good thing. When you say there's no room to recess it, why is that? The only thing I can envision it running into is the bottom of the mech. Is that the case? If so maybe you can put the handle on a belt sander and take some thickness off the base plate. Although looking at the pic I don't think you can take off enough to make it flush without considerably weakening it. I would then also try grinding off some of the bottom of the mech housing. Between the two adjustments it should recess fine.

What is the height of that neptonics mech?

I was thinking the same thing about recessing the handle more. Nice gun Ronny.

Well done.

Nice

Thanks for sharing.

When these things happen, you do an amazingly quick calculation in your head and take stock of everything; how much air you got, how strong you are, how much give the line has based on the last few seconds of fighting it, the intangible boost of strength which only happens in a life or death struggle, a little bit of luck that you hope will go your way, and you go with your decision. Many times I felt blessed because it worked out. I wonder if you know what I'm talking about, like it wasn't, it isn't my time.. yet. But knowing about guys who don't make it has made me doubt that there is a magic protective force over me. It does boil down to a species long time of earning the right to be here, and experience gained through one life time, to survive.

To a very real degree though making the right decision depends on the right frame of mind, which strangely enough we are more likely to possess if we feel "magically" protected, in other words relaxed in the first place. Obviously the force was with our friend in the video, that's why I liked it a lot. And I'm glad for it because I feel he's a kindred spirit. Excuse my ramblings.

No. But a chaperon is not a problem The difficulty would be coordinating it on a day with super vis.

That's exactly the kind of shot I'm looking for the Speardiver carbon fins. Is the young lady available for modeling?

Yes, it's a little more expensive than the gopro dive housing.

Amazing video. That was really close. Glad he's OK.

I've been saying for years those particular clips are death traps. It's mind boggling to me that a spearfishing manufacturer would put them out. The extensions on that clip serve absolutely no purpose, other than potentially kill you. If you have them on your f/p the least you can do is snip off the extensions leaving only the rounded clip similar to the original.

This kind of snagging can happen not only with those clips, but with any footpocket blade combination where there's a gap left between the end of the footpocket tends and the start of the water channeling rails.

You can see in such a situation reaching for the knife is a secondary thought. But it helps to have the knife easily accessible and removable ie. no complicated sheath locking system.

That's a high stress area. I wouldn't trust a handle there after the repair. You might as well get rid of the handle so no one grabs it by chance.

Interesting, thanks for the info Hill.

Maybe the difference between the gopros has to do with angle and lighting. I'd test the two cameras in a pool.

Nice vid. You're living it up.

What are the costs involved spearfishing in the Bahamas? I don't mean the gas money, rather permits and such.

BTW there's a Bahamas section if you want to post the reports there.

Near a full moon snow grouper congregate around the Peace bridge pilings and are real easy to spear.

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Welcome to the forum Taz.

Was at the Fort Laud beach today, water dirty and lots of seaweed. I'd wait at least a couple of days for it to change.

hehe Welcome.

wow

The long anticipated flat lens solution from Gopro is finally here. At an affordable $49.99 it pretty much puts an end to all but the very cheapest other flat lens solutions. Though the Makrolon flat lenses are still indispensable for the 3D housing. The new dive housing is very nice, I'd rather use it than our own flat Makrolon lens. The only concern I have is that the surface area of the new lens is quite a bit larger, and is more likely to receive a hit where it hurts. But that won't stop me from using it, I'm sure Gopro used decent glass. The Gopro dive housing is available from spearfishing.store, and to sweeten the deal included is a red color correction filter with a precision Torx screwdriver for installation.

Not to be outdone, and wanting to continue offering divers the leading Gopro underwater video package, FreediveStore.com is offering its own flat glass lens dive housing included with every Gopro hero2 camera. Our flat glass lens housing is a complete unit that works out of the box. It's very similar in design to the new Gopro dive housing and is waterproof to 200ft (80m), with no vignetting (dark corners) in any resolution.

And here's Greekdiver's video again (my favorite) to remind us what it's all about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7YXy9xbtc