Posts by Dan

That is where I see them, darting in and out of ledges. In Bahamas I've seen the big ones doing the same on wrecks. I think Rolo has a pic with a couple of big ones from Bahamas, post it if you can.

You must be a faster swimmer than I am

Thanks for posting back. 5 months of diving and not one report :rolleye2:

Hogfish can be as weary or more weary than other fish. It depends on hunting pressure at the location they're in. Big ones can be smart, broadside my butt, they take off making a motoring sound and don't look back. Hogfish can be gray in color, seen it in Cuba, never seen it in Florida. It's been so long that sometimes I wonder if it's a figment of my imagination.

Big cobia look like sharks when you're not expecting them and will scare the shit out of you. Cobia have a strange morphology, they remind me very much of remora. Sometimes I think that cobia start out young as remora and then lose the suction organ when they reach adulthood. Maybe that would explain their tendency to follow fish that remora normally stick to. Until now the bigger cobia I tried to eat didn't taste good, too fishy. The last one was a small one that Pantoja cooked up and it was alright.

Schoolmasters can carry the ciguatera toxin in some areas. They are prone to this in the Bahamas where they are called "the barber" due to ciguatera victims supposedly losing their hair.

In south Florida they rarely get very big. That's why you and Alan are the only ones that shoot them <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> I've seen some huge ones in Bahamas that were certainly worth shooting, maybe not eating..

I'll comment on the fins. First it depends on you budget, some people have money to throw away, and they buy the best before they even understand why it's the best. Others need to make a more careful choice, more so when they're just starting out and not even sure if they're going to stick with it. What happens with this second way is that if you realize quickly that you're really into freediving you'll be upgrading just as quickly. In the end this second way can cost you more than the first. I've entered various fields throughout my life and got tired of this process. This is why I now prefer to study as much as I can and hopefully get away with one or at most two buys. With that said there are two obvious steps that you can skip when it comes to fins. First, any kind of short scuba fins, and second, any kind of long plastic fin. As a beginner I hesitate to recommend you an expensive carbon blade although without a doubt it is the best, a fin like this http://spearfishing.world/fins…rbon-fins-and-blades.html But you can definitely go with a good fiberglass blade

Dias, you misunderstood my question. I was asking if it's possible to piss inside an open cell wetsuit without a pissette. I was thinking that since the open cell clings so much to the skin it may be too tight to expel the urine. It may seem like a strange question but since I don't mind peeing in my wetsuit, and when it's too tight I have difficult doing it, it's something I want to know before I start with the open cell suits.

The pissette is for real. It can be installed on any wetsuit. The purpose for it is for guys who's skin is sensitive to urine so they don't have to pee in the suit. Also I don't know if it's possible to be inside open cell suits, maybe someone can comment?

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It was a joke Dan. Relax.

Which exactly was the funny part? Do you know of other techniques? Then the joke was that you're not going to "reveal" them to us. In such a case ha ha and I'm waiting to hear what these techniques are.

Or the joke was that that you pretended to know other techniques while you really don't? In this case you're a real clown.

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There are more tricks, but i'm going to keep them tucked deep under my sleeve!

There's a chance you're joking and there's a chance you're serious. If there are other ways to improve breath hold I'll get there on my own when the time is right, just like I did with the mask breathing, so no big deal. But in my book saying that is not cool. What, you want us to know that you're better? OK greek you're a stud

Beautiful king.

A pissette dude.

Hemingway indeed. Actually cuda do die fast, it would be a PITA if they didn't. Good story Dias. I never thought before about why fish turn and give me a broadside sometimes, makes sense such a simple thing, now I know. Big eye on that cuda.

That's a king right guys?

By the same token when you breath it back in wouldn't you get the CO2 rich airway air when you breath from the mask?

Sounds like a candidate for a pissette.

There's a bran spanking new Africa section waiting for you Dias.

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On the contrary, I like the retro look, stainless steel buckles and all. But the clear silicone is a no no.

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what i dont get is wouldnt any "air" in the mask jsut be exhaled CO2

I've thought of this myself. I believe exhaled air has a higher percentage of CO2 but it's still possible to extract some oxygen from it. Just a guess, I don't know how it works, only that it works. I've also considered that it's all just psychological, but like I said the difference is significant.