Posts by Dan

  • The F word ?

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  • Shark Stories

    My first real shark experience was at Nassau Bahamas. There's a place there called Clifton pier that offers some really nice shallow and deep diving all within short swimming distance from shore. I knew nothing about the place other than that the locals told me people dive there.


    As usual I swam out alone. All my experiences previous to that have been in Cuba which is depleted in the areas I was diving. I only saw a shark once, and it took off as soon as it saw me. Sharks are a food fish like any other in Cuba, I guess only the weary ones survive. So diving in the Bahamas I expected about the same, and was surprised by the richness of life on the reef.


    I covered a lot of ground exploring everything the area had to offer. I found wrecks, ships and an airplane. At one point I found a large cage sitting in about 30ft on a sandy patch in the reef. I wondered what the hell it was doing there and left it behind me.


    As I became more familiar with the area after 2 or 3 dives I found myself drawn to deeper water and what the locals call the edge. There were a couple of very nice wrecks there in about 60ft and beyond that a drop off and darkness. It was not within my capabilities or resolve back then to explore the drop off. I was content to hover over the top of the reef at the drop off and make numerous tries at small pelagics that would cruise through. I was very limited in range with the sling, but I rigged it with shooting line so I was shooting confidently.


    I finally managed to time my dive to intersect a school of what I think was large rainbow runners, and got a good holding shot on one. I let out float line to play the fish as it sounded. Then out of the darkness of the edge a speeding shape appeared making a beeline for my fish, a shark!! In retrospect it must have been around 6-7ft but my fear made it larger. The shark tried to grab the fish but got the point of the spear in its mouth and backed off for a moment, then came back in again. Then two more sharks appeared out of the gloom, and all latched on to the fish which now looked like a three tailed monster going round and round. Yes I was scared, and swam backwards not allowing my eyes to come off the sharks. I swam hard trying to get back to shallower water and away from the edge, where who knows how many more sharks were lurking. Eventually the fish was gone and so were the sharks.


    Later that day I told my story to some other locals, and was informed that it's at that exact place that the famous Stuart cove's do their shark feeding dives. Now I knew what that cage was for. I dove the area a few more times but always stayed at least 100 meters away from the edge.

  • The F word ?

    <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> @ the link again.


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    Kudos for being a good sport :)

  • Kolt's blackout

    Not sure what you meant about silly Rick. We all take blackout seriously. This is why this vid is posted in the safety section of the forum.

  • What's up?

    Welcome to the forum.


    In Jiu Jitsu watch out for the strong new guys when you choose partners to roll with, they're the ones that are all gung ho and rough, and will make you hurt yourself.

  • The mystery of competitive freediving

    As someone who just dives to spearfish I never attended a freediving course or spend time among pure freedivers. Competitive freediving and freedive training seem to be getting more and more popular, so finally I got really curious about what actually goes on, I'm sure some of you are curious too. I researched a bit, here are a few vids I found that give us an idea.