Posts by Dan

  • Need advice on barrel dimensions

    My last gun is 2.9cm wide and 4.0cm tall, something like a Riffe competitor series stock. There's no flexing with two 16mm bands, and I suspect there won't be with another band or two. Like Jarey said, by the time it will flex it will be too thin to accommodate a trigger mechanism. I really can't see a reason for going thinner than my gun. I'm looking for it to be easy for me to grip around and swim with. I did wonder in the past though how thin a wood stock can be, like if a thick broomstick handle will hold two bands. Davie (seaweed) made a very thin gun once.

  • Mares Bazooka 140 cm

    What a beast, bazooka is very appropriate. Look at the thumb rest on the handle, that must have been advanced for its time. 3 power levels :@ the gun must need them.

  • Twin spear euro

    Ramon says; It's a Picasso bassik, they stopped making it because it's worthless, a useless invention, no one buys it.

  • Freediving class fins

    I started this thread asking this question because I was present at a freediving pool training session and was amazed to see that every single diver, there were about 15, including the instructor was using the obsolete Waterway blades. In case someone doesn't know which blades those are here are pics. The Waterway blades were very good at the time they came out because they were practically the first fiberglass fins on the market. They've now been displaced by better fiberglass blade manufacturing methods and blades with built in angles, and furthermore by carbon blades.





    At that training session I was told by the participants that my carbon blades are no good for what they were doing. When I asked why I was told that they don't stand up to pool training ie. they break. Since I've never even come close to competitive freedive training before I had this notion that competitive freedivers would be very up to date on the best diving equipment. I was really shocked to meet with such resistance to what I knew were superior fins.


    Since I wouldn't accept the idea that the waterway blades are better than Pursuit carbon fins for any kind of application, I thought a lot about the possible reasons for this attitude. I think I figured it out. Competitive freedivers, in training, don't spend so much time in the water as we do spearfishing. Over the course of a day diving 6-8 hours, every little bit that helps us feel more comfortable and minimizes effort such as in the case of the lighter and more reactive carbon blades, will really add up. We naturally gravitate towards this kind of equipment. In the case of the training freediver this may not be a consideration. On the contrary using a difficult fin may be a way of using more resistance so that a consequent short one time "real" diving effort would seem easier if better fins are then used. I feel compelled to say that if this is the mentality of competitive freediving then it is very far removed from what diving is about to me.

  • Anyone own a Mako Spear?

    A few years ago I believed that having the tip of the flopper bent up will help stop it from going back inside the fish. I used to purposefully bend the flopper tips up. I guess with one flopper I overdid it. The effect on the shaft trajectory was amazing. The shaft went straight for about 10ft then started to turn, at 17ft it has turned 45 degrees. I could've probably shot around corners with that thing. Needless to say all my floppers are flat against the shaft now, but properly tuned.

  • Relying on a computer for surface intervals

    Some very good answers in this thread, thank you guys. Maybe I'm just too lazy to learn the watch functions :)


    But the thought of time spent learning how to use the watch brings to mind another issue. Over the course of the day does the watch end up taking some of your energy that could have been used for diving? I had a watch once and it showed depth only. I found myself looking at it too much.