Posts by Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6WxJNLIoAw

CJ Duffie, nice red.

Rob Allen X blade 2 knife is available from Spearfishing Store.

Every Speardiver wetsuit has a size chart posted. If you're unsure you can contact through the store and ask.

Cut the tips off?

Huge discount on the Oceanic F11 V2 (latest model) freediving computer including USB cable. $329 and free shipping at FreediveStore.com.

Check out Speardiver wetsuits. Shipping a wetsuit to Australia is about $50 so it will put you over your budget of $200. But a good knife like the Speardiver Skene is not expensive.

Speardiver Skene stainless steel low profile spearfishing knife.

After a wetsuit your next most important gear is fins.

Julio Ramirez diving Puerto Rico November 2015.

I don't know if you want to buy made bands, or band making materials to make the bands yourself. You'll save money making your own speargun bands, and more importantly be able to use the very best materials available. Freedivestore.com will ship to Australia, for international shipping you'll need to send a message Contact Freedive Store.

These are the items you'll need:

1. Speardiver Small Hole Speargun Rubber Tubing

2. Low Profile Plastic Wishbone Inserts

3. Speardiver Wishbone Line

4. Speargun Band Tying Twine

Nice and clean.

What kind of dog do you have?

Thanks for posting Patrick's pic first, it made my day

Nice post and amazing fish/pics. Congratz Chris.

Who is in the first pic?

That's a beefy stock. What are going to be the final dimensions? What fish/conditions are you going to use it for?

If you're going to buy a roller muzzle, might as well buy a well made one

Here in Fort Lauderdale I've seen a moving bar on the roads near the beach, people sit around it and pedal.

Glad to hear it.

Very cool. Would love to see it run.

All things considered, I can't think of better way to go than SWB. This of course after I've lived my life to the fullest, done my best for my family and friends, and can no longer do so. Dive alone? **** yeah!

BTW and completely unrelated.. I sometimes wonder if the walking dead could possibly float or walk over the seafloor to an island :thinking:

Quote from Akira dkt

I agree, Mako should discontinue this device, even with the disclaimer, "hunting small game" i hunt small game in 80-100ft of water, if one of these small game fish were to hole up, and i was at the end of my breath hold....Id be screwed or in the best case scenario, at risk of SWB.

Mako Spearguns did discontinue it, probably because of this thread. I pulled that image today using a site called Wayback Machine, it's website that stores cached versions of other website going back years.

You mentioned the disclaimer in the Mako speargun tether product description, there's some history behind that. The speargun tether was first introduced in the US by a now defunct company using the website Bluewaterbrothers.com. They tried to sell spearguns manufactured by Orca and some other gear including the speargun tether. The store was promoted on Spearfishing planet forum which led me to have a look at their gear selection and that's where I saw the speargun tether. In 2007 I was nowhere near running a forum or selling spearfishing gear, but I felt compelled to draw attention to the dangers of this thing. I caught some heat for that post, spearfishing planet is mostly scuba divers so they didn't know what I was talking about. But in the end even the Orca distributor recapitulated and posted this

Quote from SeaPanther

I edited my first post. If I misjudged your intentions please forgive me. I will assume your concern is for the safety of fellow spearos and not any other agenda, and if so I am 100% behind that.

I talked to my website guys and they are adding a safety warning regarding entanglement to this item as well as any other terminal tackle (reels, floatlines and bungees).

Entanglement is definitely the biggest concern for me as a predominately freediving spearo. I have seen enough floatlines, reel lines and shooting line get hung up deep (on a fin, a snorkel or structure) that I think this should be discussed. Believe me it is a little easier to reach across to your bicep and unclip this leash (I take no credit for inventing this quick release clip), than untie a tangled floatline.
One thing I do disagree is freediving alone, especially for big fish. I think an experienced spearo can be just as effective in pairs and prevent any accidents from gear or any number of potential factors.
I do appreciate all the feedback from you guys even if it is not what I want to hear.

Dano would never know this on his own, he just followed suit. Which brings me to this.

Quote from virgili

in my modest opinion, he did not show at the time experienced skills in the spearfishing/ freediving practice despite a good athletic form.

All you have to do is look at Dano finning, it's obvious he hasn't done much diving.