Posts by Dan

To clear up for guys who may not understand the mouth piece thing; the Riffe stable snorkel accepts the same mouth piece as a scuba regulator. A few years ago I thought that was a great idea, since sometimes the mouth piece gets bitten through and the snorkel gets trashed. In this case you can just replace the mouthpiece. But I found the scuba mouthpiece to be too big, requiring me to keep my mouth open too wide. One of my criteria for a good snorkel is a small mouthpiece, one that will fit with my mouth being slightly open in as close a position to neutral as possible. This way I don't have to spend any energy keeping the snorkel in my mouth. It really adds up throughout a 6-8 hour day of diving. I find the scuba mouthpiece is definitely not the best for this. Combined with the pull out effect caused by the accordion shape of this snorkel's tube I think it's more exertion for the mouth than necessary.

Riffe stable snorkel.

This is a repost from planet, happened yesterday a little over a mile offshore.

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A 14' great white ate Dale's 80 lb. amberjack off the back of Paul's boat off Deerfield about half an hour ago. Dale had liftbagged the AJ to the surface. Paul and Eric had a tug of war with the GW at the back of the boat but never got a photo because they realized that Dale was still in the water doing deco without a gun (because he had lift bagged it with the fish). They slid a gun down Dale's marker line to him. Dale hit the surface wondering why they sent him a gun as he never saw the shark. They told him: "Get in the boat!"

Great whites are sighted about once a year off Jupiter. I guess that this one came a little further South in the colder water that we've had the last couple of days. I'm sure that Paul and Eric know the difference between a great white and a bull - Paul has killed enough bulls off the back of his boat as a commercial shark fisherman.

Dale with the leftovers:

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Interesting, I never imagined blowing through a snorkel would be that audible. Gotta give it a shot next time out.

How about a snorkel designed to be a sound signaling device, now there's a selling point.

Everything you need to know http://spearfishing.world/mask…makes-a-good-snorkel.html

The Stingray foot pocket tendons have a T slot and require tendon rails to be glued onto the blade edges. The tendon T slot accepts the rails well. The stingrays accept a conventional blade back edge, but for it to go all the way to the end of the slot a small recess needs to be shaped in the back edge of the blade. Pics are of a Stingray foot pocket and a Speardiver C90 blade with a reshaped back edge.

It is possible to remove the blades from the Pathos footpockets but it's difficult. I can always salvage the blades, sometimes the Pathos footpockets get damaged.

Beautiful vid and soundtrack. I added it to the video gallery.

Wouldn't a stop watch be better? I uploaded one here http://spearfishing.world/47479-post14.html It's configurable to show time down to milliseconds, colors and size are configurable too.

Don't hit your head on the keyboard. If I see one of your post go like "I was pumping up my airbalettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt " I'll know what happened

I believe attacking the tail is strategy used by more than one predatory fish.

I felt that wasn't fair for the marlin. I hope at least they kept and ate it.

Good report

Hard to say. I'm thinking the vis wasn't that good. If you have some out of the water footage it would be easier to tell. Nice thing about youtube is that it tells you the resolution of the video.

I knew I was saving this pic for something. Our own Jimcuda gets his name from a barracuda attack. I believe he was cleaning a fish off a dock or a boat with his hands in the water, and a cuda grabbed his hand good. Still me.. I'll never stop shooting them. I've sure eaten more cuda than any other fish, it's as good as anything.

Here's Pantoja with a big fat cuda.

And here's Pantoja's bite

from a triggerfish

Not even close. And I've shot many many barracuda.

I have a shark spike on the muzzle of my gun. One time I jumped in shallow water not really expecting anything big, so I didn't connect the float line. I saw maybe a 4ft barracuda. I shot it and the fish made a run. I held on to the handle of the gun. When I thought the fish finished its escape run I let go of the gun and started to bring it in with the shooting line (400lb mono). When I got it close the fish made another short run and the mono was slipping through my bare hands. I thought nothing of it and then in a flash I remembered the spike. Before I could tighten my grip and slow down the gun the spike hit me in the shoulder. I don't keep it very sharp so it didn't go in deep. But it was a surprise, never happened before or since. Get a float line.

In 18ft of water without a floatline I'd have to really control myself not to shoot that fish. The only reason being I wouldn't want to lose my gun. Chances are I could hold my breath long enough until it stopped its initial run and I'll be able to get some air. It would depend on how much I liked the gun I had with me.

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How deep was it?

That's a good tutorial on making a pissette. I think it can also be made without the machine only with glue. I don't understand the other pictures. Why would you want to keep the urine in a bag and not simply piss outside the suit?

It's strange looking for a saltwater fish. Impressive nevertheless. Is it good eating?

That doesn't sound right. The shooting line attachment hole is usually in the forward tab, so obviously it shouldn't go over any other tab. But if for some reason you have the hole in the rear tab, do not run the loop over the forward tab because when you load the band on the forward tab you'll pin the loop down and this may cause a problem.

Welcome Mark.