Posts by Dan

Pantoja, his bro, Alan, Roberto and myself encountered close to ideal conditions today. Flat seas and top to bottom viz everywhere, from 80ft to 30ft although there was particulate in the water. Temp was perfect for rash guards even on the bottom deep. The muttons were around but they made us work. A mutton is a dangerous fish, I got 3 and had to push myself for each one. Here's a pic of the tally. I'm starting to have misgivings about posting pics of our killing sprees for non members to see. Do you guys think it can be bad for us in the long run?

Anyways a great day, I wish they could all be like this. I'll come back and post a couple of stories from today at a later time cause I'm tired now.

It's not a pastime, it's a lifestyle!

Fish of the day, A 5(?)lb mutton. Are you holding his tail so he won't get away Alan?

More pics and a report to follow.

Good story Jeff. Maybe it was moved a little by a storm and you couldn't see it because of the bad vis.

That's a monster snapper. I wish our muttons would get like that. Say Bill, isn't this kind of a dive report? Can we put it in a regional section? Where did you guys dive? The Miami section is the only active one and I'd like to get the other sections going.

You got balls Core.

Can you see the difference?

Is there actually a difference between tendon stiffness of various footpockets? If so what does this translate to? I hung a 6oz lead weight off the tendon of a waterway footpocket (a clone of the Sporasub footpocket) and off the tendon of a soft tendon footpocket. The soft tendon footpocket has slightly longer tendons, the weights were placed at an equal distance from the back of each footpocket which apart from the tendons are fairly similar. I believe what accounts for the difference in tendon stiffness in this case is:
1. How much rubber material is in the tendons, the waterway have a significantly taller profile throughout their length.
2. The rubber material itself, the waterway footpocket tendons are made of a harder rubber material.

You can imagine that if a tiny 6oz weight has this effect, what effect the force of a leg stroke pushing against water will have on the soft tendons. It will be like they're non existent.

How does Gonzalo know about the bulit pose?

Tits and Ass?

TA?

Quote from Ballenita

I am the kennel owner. Would you like to see some working pics?

And the dogs in person too Glad to have another bulldog aficionado on board.

Is this you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqeRBXoB7aw&feature=channel_page

This is me.

Video: AB Agitation Session 13

By me the pictured bulldogs look good, they have an athletic build. It's hard to make a call on a line of dog's I've never seen in person. You've probably seen some pics of Greg's AB here. Up until recently I was doing his protection training, great dog.

Do you have a bulldog, or are you the kennel owner?

Thanks for that review. I love that genre.

Welcome to the forum little whale

Quote from griswold

Here's another picture of that wetsuit, taken this weekend. I don't own one, but it looked like a good suit to me.

Looks like a good fish to me & matches with the suit.

Cool, a Latin online translator. Gone are the days of the door to door Encyclopaedia Britannica salesman.

Monster, what does Caprulam Terriblem Habeo mean?

"I can sit here for the rest of the day, I'm very comfortable" What a crock of shit, he looks like he's about to pass a kidney. Chest loading sucks the bag.

A los hombres de familia: Un buen chiste tiene su fundamento en la verdad. Quisiera saber si aquello es realmente tipico para la pareja Puerto Riqueña?

Please check out the website home page. I added some new details; background audio, a video and spearfishing poem. I think each in it's own way represents well one of my perceptions of spearfishing. As I was putting it all together it struck me how different the components are, in my mind they didn't fit harmoniously together.

The video is of a difficult fish recovery. It reminds of the many times when spearfishing just seems like hard work, a problem situation that requires an intelligent approach and some muscle to solve. I enjoy this when I'm successful and can't remember ever having given up on a situation. The Bluewater hunters poem by contrast is something that I can identify with when I'm contemplating the big picture and our place in all this. I believe it to be true but certainly there's no room for that kind of thought when one is actually in the water, concentrating on all the variables of diving and hunting. The audio seems to go go well with the poem, sort of conducive to meditation. However the sound of waves isn't exactly what we hear when diving, it is a sound that is associated with being on land. What are the sounds of spearfishing anyways? LOL thunkk!! (speargun discharge) vooobooboom.. (escaping grouper) and that phonetically impossible to rebroduce sound of an approaching boat :grimreeper:

I know some guys don't think twice about the spiritual aspect of taking a life. Someone who spearfishes commercially would be a typical representative of this group. On the other extreme you have the shark hugger types. Be one with the sea etc. etc. I don't feel I belong exclusively to either camp. I think one way is insensitive beyond my comprehension, and those who follow the other are in for a rude awakening. The bottom line is that today the ocean is not our element. We can't survive in it for long without returning to land.

But I do sort of understand both and find it confusing at times. This is when I find Hemingway's style to be a good compromise. He sort of says I gotta do what I gotta do. It pains me sometimes, I don't understand why and maybe never will. But here I am and I will not give up.