Posts by Dan

Por favor explica bien hoy "cuarto menguante", "el careguante"

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Yeah Dan, I had it on timer. I found a piece of wood, stuck it in the ground, propped the camera and ran back to hold it for about 20 seconds or so....yeah I was a bit tired.

That's exactly what I would've done except beach diving here in Ft Lauderdale you're not going to find a piece of wood, a broken beach chair or umbrella in the evening if you're lucky Thanks for the pic!

Bienvenido Sharkan. Gracias por las fotos. El agua se ve clarita. Esta bueno el bote, que marka es?

I like the feel of his site. I stumbled on it a year ago looking for info on the Beuchat Mundial knife. He actually had a video of it which helped me with the decision to buy. Has good information like the link you posted. Actually I learned everything I know about spearfishing from Ron's website. I'm still waiting for him to put up a pictorial on how shoot goat fish and then I will be complete <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

BTW I think he worked that notch a little too far..

I know how that goes.

And how do you know about Ron's sea corner Jeff?

Now for those fish you need a light maneuverable pipe gun with a 6.5mm shaft. You can get yourself a stringerfull of them and have a nice dinner. Good way to perfect your aim too. Yeah it's quite a change when a fish is actually aware of you and takes evasive action <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Makes me wonder if they're pressured over here as I didn't expect that to be part of their natural repertoire.

I was in Varadero once in a 5 star hotel. For dinner there was a buffet with a fish section. One of the trays I recognized to be full of salmonetas. They were cross section cut to 1" pieces.

Thanks for the how to pics. Looks like creating a RA type float line should be pretty easy.

RA floatline braid.

It was good to see Sergio in the water finally.

Crew - Sergio, Alan, Roberto, Myself and a little later a fellow we picked up who was beach diving by the name of Slava.
Location - North of the inlet. Initially we went south but water was very green. Sergio checked the current which was going north to south and decided to try the vis in the other direction which paid off.
Sea surface - Almost flat.
Temperature - Rashguards.
Current - Strongish north to south early on diminishing a little towards noon. Made deep diving difficult due to having to kick all the way down.
Visibility - Greenish 30' on the shallow reef and a stunning blue 60' on the deep wrecks. Could've been much better if not for a hazy top layer of about 3'. Lots of particulate near the surface looking like tiny brown sticks. Some of this stuff was stinging and causing rashes.

I was finishing off a new float last night and working on the one float flag I had. Trimming it down to minimum size I messed it up and consequently was diving without a flag on my float. At one point I got pretty far away from the boat. Because of the current I didn't want to spend my strength swimming back. All of a sudden I see a jetski coming right at me. I waved to make sure the driver saw me and realized he was aiming for me. Turned out to be a lifeguard and the ski had a rescue sled attached. He warned me about the flag and I was out of excuses. Fortunately they don't ticket and I got a ride on the sled back to the boat. This seems to be happening to me on a regular basis

Other than that nothing noteworthy, just another productive day with the Santa Fe and crew. I was looking for lobster but saw none. I too found the goat fish to be skittish. I don't remember them being that way in Cuba. I had to hurry home so I didn't take any pics other than my booty later in the evening. The guys had a bunch of fish too.

I didn't see the link, I was referring to the pic. I'll post a closeup pic of it later today.

Larry, that's not how the RA is made. The outer sheath which is basically where all the strength is can't be taken apart like in the pic you posted.

I think diving in the sea is one of the healthiest things a child can do.

Hello Ricky, thank you for helping us grow. When new members register their user name needs to be cleared to post, this is to stop spammers from abusing the forum. New members are usually cleared the same day. Nina can now post.

It's 12" x 12" http://www.miamimaritimelaw.com/divinglaws.htm

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FLORIDA DIVING LAWS

327.331 Divers; definitions; divers-down flag required; obstruction to navigation of certain waters; penalty.--

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Diver" means any person who is wholly or partially submerged in the waters of the state and is equipped with a face mask and snorkel or underwater breathing apparatus.

(b) "Underwater breathing apparatus" means any apparatus, whether self-contained or connected to a distant source of air or other gas, whereby a person wholly or partially submerged in water is enabled to obtain or reuse air or any other gas or gases for breathing without returning to the surface of the water.

(c) "Divers-down flag" means a flag that meets the following specifications:

1. The flag must be square or rectangular. If rectangular, the length must not be less than the height, or more than 25 percent longer than the height. The flag must have a wire or other stiffener to hold it fully unfurled and extended in the absence of a wind or breeze.

2. The flag must be red with a white diagonal stripe that begins at the top staff-side of the flag and extends diagonally to the lower opposite corner. The width of the stripe must be 25 percent of the height of the flag.

3. The minimum size for any divers-down flag displayed on a buoy or float towed by the diver is 12 inches by 12 inches. The minimum size for any divers-down flag displayed from a vessel or structure is 20 inches by 24 inches.

4. Any divers-down flag displayed from a vessel must be displayed from the highest point of the vessel or such other location which provides that the visibility of the divers-down flag is not obstructed in any direction.

(2) All divers must prominently display a divers-down flag in the area in which the diving occurs, other than when diving in an area customarily used for swimming only.

(3) No diver or group of divers shall display one or more divers-down flags on a river, inlet, or navigation channel, except in case of emergency, in a manner which shall unreasonably constitute a navigational hazard.

(4) Divers shall make reasonable efforts to stay within 100 feet of the divers-down flag on rivers, inlets, and navigation channels. Any person operating a vessel on a river, inlet, or navigation channel must make a reasonable effort to maintain a distance of at least 100 feet from any divers-down flag.

(5) Divers must make reasonable efforts to stay within 300 feet of the divers-down flag on all waters other than rivers, inlets, and navigation channels. Any person operating a vessel on waters other than a river, inlet, or navigation channel must make a reasonable effort to maintain a distance of at least 300 feet from any divers-down flag.

(6) Any vessel other than a law enforcement or rescue vessel that approaches within 100 feet of a divers-down flag on a river, inlet, or navigation channel, or within 300 feet of a divers-down flag on waters other than a river, inlet, or navigation channel, must proceed no faster than is necessary to maintain headway and steerageway.

(7) The divers-down flag must be lowered once all divers are aboard or ashore. No person may operate any vessel displaying a divers-down flag unless the vessel has one or more divers in the water.

1(8) Any willful violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor of the second degree punishable as provided by s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

(8) Except as provided in s. 327.33, any violation of this section shall be a noncriminal infraction punishable as provided in s. 327.73.

Note.--Former s. 861.065.

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A legal size diver down flag is available from Speardiver. Comes in two sizes, for float 12.5" x 11", and for boat 24" x 20" Diver Down Flag - Speardiver I figured this will be important to some of you because of the improved stiffener system. I'm very tired of replacing flags when the grommets pull out of the flag material because of the conventional wire stiffener.

Features

• Flag has a stitched-in fiberglass stiffner. Superior to the conventional wire stiffner which gets entangled with other gear in your equipment bag, bends and requires constant straightening, and causes the grommets to rip out of the flag material rendering the flag illegal and unusable.
• High quality nylon construction.
• Stainless steel grommets.
• White stripe is stitched on. Will not fade and rub off like a painted on stripe.
• Boat size flag accepts the cheapest and most readily available flag pole; a 1/2" white PVC pipe

Did you put the camera on timer? Looks like you were a little tired holding that pose <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> What did it end up weighing? Looks like 20-25lb.

So Julio you were expecting him but not really expecting him?

Beautiful fish! That's a hell of a story. I jumped up from my chair when you said you made a blind shot and got him. I first saw the pic of course and was expecting you to say that the fish came back, as improbable as that is. The booboom sound of the fish taking off must have startled you into squeezing the trigger <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> In seriousness tremendous presence of mind and staying cool That moment would stay with me my whole life.

Pantoja is taking the boat out tomorrow morning. Whoever wants to come let either of us know.

Forecast.
Friday East winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 feet or less. Intracoastal waters a light chop. Chance of showers through the day. Chance of thunderstorms.

There are a few ideas there. First who really knows what fish see. But I had an epiphany a while back where I realized a line is like a moving wall to a fish depending on where in the water column it is and how it's moving relative to the fish. You can't discount that there's a big lore in H&L and that generally they try to make the fishing line as least visible as possible. This is based on hundreds of years of practical experience. So I think that least visible is a worthwhile goal when considering color, width and whatever else. But as you know everything is a compromise and in the situation where I need a thick line to pull up a diver the other considerations become secondary. I believe that the least we have to go on is how visible the line is to us and why should it be that much different to other animals. You yourself said that you want it orange for visibility purposes

I propose that judging by the great variety of coloration among fish, and their ability to change color to reflect mood, and the capacity other sea creatures have for camouflage using colors, indicates that fish are very sensitive to color. Of course I haven't yet become a better spearfisher because I know this.

As far as usefulness to the diver. A member on this board I believe uses clear tubing without anything inside as a float line and let me tell you that thing is hard to see and would be difficult to me from a handling stand point. However I've had no problems handling any other color. By this logic if a polypropylene line was made clear it would be difficult to handle too. So maybe something not completely invisible just less visible.

It's hard to isolate most of the time when you have success with a fish what it was due to. Most of the time it seems to me it's really up to the fish not anything I do in particular. Some species are more oblivious than others but that changes in dependence of locations. It takes a lot of experience to start making for sure judgment calls on what has what effect. Two very experienced spearfishers told me that fish don't like float lines. Well, they don't like them because they can see them.