Posts by Dan

I had a couple of JBL tips over the years and I used to remove that metal ring and the rubber strip that's supposed to pop the barbs open. Why do you think everyone's using single flopper shafts or streamlined slip tips? One has to just aim a little better and the shot will be secure.

Why did you use such a small gun?

Congrats, good story. I have trouble too getting seasick. Sometimes getting in the water helps, it's definitely worse on the boat. In the end it usually goes away after puking all the bile out but it can make for a miserable dive day. I've given up on ever getting immune to seasickness.

The best way to increase depth freediving is with beach dives. It happens gradually and before you know it you're diving deep. Provided of course you're diving in an area that has that kind of change in depth, like a dropoff near shore. Starting deep from a boat is a steeper learning curve but I suppose that's how most people here do it.

Which gun were you using?

http://www.miamiherald.com/new…g-news/story/1127460.html

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A woman was bitten by a shark as she swam near a sandbar in Biscayne National Park Saturday afternoon.
The bite, while severe, was not life-threatening, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials.
''It took a big chunk out of her leg, but luckily missed an artery,'' said Lt. Arnold Piedrahita, a spokesman.
The 43-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was celebrating the holiday with friends, swimming and sunbathing on the sandbar.
She felt something bump her leg, and when she looked down, saw she'd been bitten by a nurse shark.
Her friends brought the woman from the sandbar to Homestead Bayfront Park Marina by boat, where they were met by rescuers.
She was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital for treatment, but was said to be stable and talking.

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I always had the idea that this could happen at those sandbars. I wonder if it was Haulover inlet, the only sandbar I've been to.

I don't know how she could identify it as a nurse shark. I think a nurse shark would have a hard time biting off a chunk, it was probably a bull.

On another note check out the post by this tool. It's in a thread on SB about the same incident.

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what a waste of a news story...not knocking drinking but she was prolly drunk and didn't watch where she was stepping. Also, the advice from the rescue dept. is lame...i especially like the last one.

If I'm ever bitten by a shark, or injured by any kind of "dangerous" marine animal, the last thing I am doing is getting the press involved...

If there's any thread saying something about sharks behaving aggressively or posing a risk he posts similar crap always defending the shark and belittling the potential danger. I so want him to have a shark encounter.

The point I often see being used by such clowns is that the shark made a mistake, "mistake in identity". Who cares if it was a mistake. Sharks will keep making mistakes, it's what they do.

It's summer and there's a million boats and divers out there. Fish on the 1st and 2nd reef are skittish, must be due to hunting pressure. The only way to get good fish is to go deep where not too many people can go. And also not on hot spots like wrecks where scuba divers congregate. With Pantoja we usually do well because we dive large areas of reef that's not a target for anyone.

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I know most of those buildings and monuments.

I found it on the 1st reef. It has a 3rd tab but I don't think it's your friend's shaft. This one has a strange tip that looks like it was welded on but it's hard to say exactly what it was because it's rusted to shit. It's kinda' interesting so I'll take a pic of it tomorrow. I think it might have been a prong.

I took some pics of Tin Man's camera mount installed on hau's Rob Allen gun. Night caught up with us and I wasn't able to take the pics outdoors in daylight. Digital cameras don't take good indoor pics so the quality ain't so hot. But it should give some idea of how the mount fits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGoT8qm2rwE

I'm curious how Pipin usually spreads out his fins before shooting the fish. I think he said something in one of his vids about confusing the fish into thinking he's a sea turtle due the similarity in finning motion. I don't know, I always try to present as small a profile as possible but I'll give that a shot one day. Maybe he was just slowing down his glide.

If the mantis and viso are perfect why are you interested in the technisub

Riffe makes spearguns, and they make them well. Everything else Riffe rebrands and can be found elsewhere at a lower price. It can be said that Riffe knows how to select the good stuff but not always. More so they know to select the stuff they can make money on. Nothing wrong with that but you need to keep it in mind. Their flagship products are the spearguns and that's the only thing I would go to them for. Still their antiquated speargun handle needs to be redesigned.

9 hours in the water, that some serious diving.

The AQA mantis is not really a low volume mask compared to the Technisub.

Maybe you can handle the medium hard stiffness carbons.

I tried today the Aqua Lung Technisub Micromask, $79 from FreediveStore.com Aqualung Technisub Micromask. This Aqualung micromask really lives up to its name. You want to talk about low internal volume, it has no internal volume. Seriously, the omer abyss is a low volume mask, I poured as much water into it as it will hold without spilling and then I poured the water from the omer abyss into the Techinsub. the water kept spilling and spilling out of the Technisub Micro mask. It was almost like the only place that held water was the nose pocket.

The Aqua lung Technisub Micromask is constructed differently than any mask I've seen. The plastic frame is bonded/merged with the skirt. Field of view is very good. The buckles swivel in four directions. The mask is comfortable and light. As small as it is I think it's amazing that the frame doesn't put any pressure on the bridge of the nose. I think it's a great low volume spearfishing & freediving mask.

EDIT 5/8/2012 - A similar mask, the Speardiver Micromask is now available for for $49 Speardiver Micromask.

You're welcome my friend

Yep. But I'm not going to say any more on his behalf

I was diving yesterday and today. There's a serious absence of fish and the ones I've seen are small and skittish. Yesterday I got caught in a thunderstorm which lasted about 20min. I couldn't see more than 100ft ahead because of the downpour and overcast skies. I had to take down the flag because the wind just about ripped it off. A boat appeared out of nowhere speeding towards the inlet and missed me by 90ft, the driver never saw me.

Today I went with Larry. Lots of boat traffic made it difficult to relax. We made it back safe after many alerts, waving our guns out of the water to be noticed by boats heading straight for us. We did spend a good few hours in the water, it was a long swim to the second reef and back. When we got back to the beach Larry said he hates his DiveR fins <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"> I wish I had a video camera.

Tally: A couple of jacks, a small hog and a barracuda. Oh and an omer euro shaft with mini sharkfin tabs that I found on the bottom completely encrusted with marine growth. Best fish I've seen all day was a mutton just before reaching the beach at the end of the day. It took off in a hurry.

All sold.

I tested the softness by pinching each mouth piece with my fingers after having washed my hands

The #3 has slightly softer flaps, I think because they're thinner. However the base of the mouth piece doesn't compress as it sits over plastic, like a scuba regulator mouth piece. The #3 has an interesting feature where both the top and the bottom pieces swivel and can be adjusted for angle.

I put on the Mares footpockets but didn't use them in the water. I can't give a detailed review other than that I generally didn't like them. The downward angle of the tendons is over exaggerated. The area for the front of the foot seemed too small. If you're thinking that they're like the Cressi Gara footpockets I'd have to say no. The Cressi footpockets are like normal footpockets, the Mares are an extreme design change.