Posts by Dan
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Interesting boat. Thanks Ramon. The sides look a little high for comfortable entry from the water, compared to a rigid inflatable boat I mean. I guess everything depends on how much it costs.
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Sounds awesome.
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Nice Cubera. Interesting cobe story.
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I have to admit that turned out way nicer than I imagined.
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WTG hau
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Very nice haul.
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I wonder how well it works.
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Both cool vids Daniel, thanks.
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I was thinking maybe you could get a local metal worker to make you something. Are you able to order stuff online that will ship to Zimbabwe?
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It's better to have you as a friend Marco
Here are some words from Mark about omer's reputation.
______________________________1st. Omer has been making spearfishing equipment since 1968, and while Mares and Cressi are older companies, Omer is the longest standing spearfishing and freediving equipment only manufacturer since 1968. We’re very proud of this.
2nd. Omer has three mechanical engineers that work in their technical department full time. Not one of them is an architect. Marco Mariani, head of the technical department has a degree in engineering and trained in Switzerland. Claudio Ciceri, one of the 4 brothers who own Omer has a degree in engineering from Columbia University. Davide Villa has a degree from a politechnical insitute of a province of Milan. To say they are qualified is an understatement, Claudio and Marco Mariani have been working in Omer since 1995. The region of Italy where Omer has it’s roots is Valtrompia in Lombardy which has the longest tradition of gunsmiths in the world. Omer was started by a man who prior to making shafts and parts for spearguns from his machine shop machined parts for Beretta firearms. He sold the company to the Ciceri because he was not a business man and it would have gone bankrupt otherwise. Benelli and other widely recognized firearm manufacturers are traditionally from this area and the owners of Omer come from generations of hunters. All the brothers are avid hunters, mostly duck and pheasant and geese, rabbits and fox. I’ve hunted with them and they like to kill animals great and small because it is in their blood. They use dogs and hunt the old fascioned way. One of the consultants of Omer who adds design input to their product is Marco Pisello, an architect. Marco Pisello designed the Cobra, the Sporasub Flashlight, a float board and a few other products. Prior to his association with Omer he worked for Antonio Cressi of CressiSub. I would say if anything there are more engineers at Omer than any other Speargun Mfg.
3. What perplexes me is we have been distributing Omer in the US and thoughout North America since 1997. When a customer has suffered a warranty issue there are only two people that handle those, me and my father Eddie. We make decisions based on a case by case basis and our track record speaks for itself or we wouldn’t be in business after 13 years. One product issue is bad enough and two is unheard of from one consumer. I personally would write a letter of apology if a customer had multiple gear failures because I have 11 IUSA world records and would not use Omer equipment if I didn’t believe it was the best and neither would my customers. We’ve never been contacted by the customer above and I assume he bought his equipment overseas. AS US distributors we could have handled any of these issues without costly returns back to Europe, appointed by Omer as American distributors that’s our job. There is also a selection process of products we decide to import and a rigorous quality control that comes from our end here and from our service department. We have always offered a Technosport customer, be it the dealer or the consumer, a solution, an upgrade, a replacement or an exchange. I have never heard of anyone with this kind of track record and I’m very sorry to hear their impression of the Omer brand.
4. It should be noted that for the last 6 years our product offering has expanded to a 70 page product catalog of spearfishing and freediving specific items and a 60 page accessories catalog. It covers all basis with a broad range of products for spearfishing from the beginner enthusiast to the experienced fanatic. That being said and the price of innovation being considered, innovation can have it’s downsides. Omer innnovates spearfishing products more than most. If we didn’t want to take risks we would never create new products, it’s the best way to make sure you never have a problem in your production! Omer (Sporasub is part of Omer now as the rights to the brand were acquired from Mares group) manufacturers and designs all of its own products. Many of our competitors rebrand theirs and only make a few of their own. Each product that Omer makes is deseigned and tested by Omer, just like Apple does. Some of the products and parts of these are produced in factories where they have partnerships overseas in Asia like Taiwan and the neoprene is manufactured in China (all manufacturers use Chinese factories for their production neoprenes). We have Japanese neoprenes shipped to those countries for our productions, US materials shipped to our factories, injection high density plastic and fiberglass reinforced from Sweden etc. That does not mean the products are conceived and designed there or even sourced there. Omer ships materials from Europe (thermoplastics from Germany for example) and fiberglass loaded nylon (our speargun handles and other parts are 35% fiberglass loaded) from Europe. The labor is less expensive than Italy or the US for example for the button pushers and so we make our products where we don’t have to fight unions and pay for laziness. Stainless steel parts like shafts and tips and carbon fiber fins are all ofItalian provenance because Italian artizans are still the best producers and machinists of these articles. Final assemblies and checks of our products are done in Italy, at Omer.
Well I have to get back to work now as I’m anctious to try out the 2nd generation Enclosed Track 130cm model I just received from Italy before I send it to Hawaii to one of my divers for final input, evaluation and photos. The longer guns are coming down the line later than the first three sizes in that we had to retool for a larger bore enclosed track ($12,000 fix) so we can guarantee better results in the event of slightly bent shafts and larger diameter shafts. These days we are also trying a new ICE fin prototype (yes the Achilles heel in Omer production history) but after ten years of working on the ICE project we are still confident we can make a dependable perfectly clear freediving fin that our market has never stopped asking us for. Right now California spearfishing champion Richard Balta is busy trying out a prototype. We are currently injecting the material in a Millenium mold until we understand more about it and eventually will invest into new molds to make the material for our Stingray fins which is our future. Clear waters Dan to you and your fellow hunters!
Ps- I really enjoyed reading Don’s pneumatic modification on your forum and I plan to contact him soon to do a customized revamp of my personal Airbalete. What a beautiful job he did.
Mark Laboccetta
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FWIW the effect of the back edge of the blade pushing through the sole of the foot pocket and thereby creating a loss during the power transfer, is dependent more than anything else on the stiffness of the rubber at the sole of the footpocket. Pathos, Picasso, Beuchat, and Nemo footpockets have rigid/good soles, you can't feel the back of the blade moving at all. This is achieved without any "tabs".
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Not likely there were changes to the footpocket, molds are very expensive. Thank you for the review.
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There are two separate "coming clean" stories in this thread Aaron. That wasn't the original intent of the thread.
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I can see that since this fellow is from your neck of the woods. If something like this happens again, in the best interests of the forum I'd appreciate a heads up for me or Don.
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Good review Ephraim. Looking at the pic of the back edge of the carbon blades, I can tell you that even having that slot, the depth of the slot will not not allow the back edge of the blade to go all the way into the Delta one foot pockets. This is because the tab inside the Salvimar foot pocket is longer than the slot on the blades. I know because I cut open the Delta one foot pocket before I threw them out.
