Posts by JimCuda

The top one has a longer handle than the other stiletto knives. Compare:

Who knows Italian?

This would be so handy for cutting off spines, fins, gills, guts. Etc. Made from Stainless.

What's the minimum order?

Wikipedia has an interesting description of the breed. I had to look it up because of the video.

My new desktop wallpaper:

I bought a 2mm vest from diver's direct for $22. I cut off the hood to wear under the suit. It seems to work. If you could get an open cell one, that might be even better. It makes a big difference for little money.

You guys don't drink the fish water?:barf:

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Pantoja, I got the pic. I think you and I need to have a serious talk.

Sergio, I think Dan wants to go to Cuba now! :pirate:

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Bagdepot sell padded snowboard bags for under $20. I have one and u can probably fit 2-3 peoples stuff in there including suits, fins, and all.

How do they hold up in the ocean environment?

The Manual of Freediving calls it a duckdive. :cool2: I don't think there's a definite term for it. Duckdive is used in surfing, surface entry also makes sense.

-When you dive down with both feet in the air to use their weight is the most efficient according to him.

-Pelizzari calls the technique where you only stick one foot in the air "the Spearfisher's duckdive".

I've been trying to stick with the second one (one foot), because it's quieter.

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Nice vid Harry. Ever get the spear stuck in one of those tires? The tires are horrible..

Hhahah. He did! On that shot on the mutton in the tire pile. Watching his videos makes me realize that I need to take longer shots sometimes.

I definitely tried the urine thing, don't worry, it was my own :0. I've looked up the jellyfish and found very conflicting responses on relief. There seems to be a split between vinegar/urine either helping or not. It turns out the Manowar isn't a regular jellyfish and the treatments are the same.

I can say that the urine had a short and immediate soothing effect that lasted 1 minute. I have heard also that the warmth of it helps, so I just warmed my ear in the sun.

I wish I had a photo of my ear, it was fat.

Those Man-o-wars really kick your ass. I got hit in the ear and had to hide on the boat for an hour just to be able to dive. I experienced all sorts of crazy feelings, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, and anxiety. Turns out that the Man-o-wars have a neurotoxin that can have all sorts of adverse effects. My ear hurt like crazy and was swollen all afternoon.

I never saw the bull shark though.

I got these new Spetton footpockets for Christmas. I want to reshape the top part *slightly*. I was thinking of putting them in boiling/hot water and then adjusting the shape while they cool. Perhaps this would change the molded shape a little.

Any knowledge on this?

I WANT SOME :):):):):):):):):)

My guess, he was looking for a trophy fish. Even I would have shot it!

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JimCuda,
Nice story, very nice pic and fish. Glad you got your fish and shaft back:thumbsup2:
Looks like I may have to go further out than 40fsh to get nice fish like that:(
Thanks for sharin.

No way! I've seen nice YJ's that size in 35 ft over the reef in Miami.

I didn't have my dive watch that day, so I dunno about the depth. I think it was in 60 feet, 65 to the bottom.

So SeaWeed, TurboRon, pargo, and I went diving on Friday off of TurboRon's boat. Got a late start, but we had some fun. Aside from pargo almost getting run over, it was pretty good. We just went off out of Dania, water started rough, but calmed later in the day. Visibility was so-so, about 30 feet in some areas. Mostly did some diving on second reef, but at one point we hit a barge in about 65 feet. It took us a while to find it because of the vis.

After a bit, pargo finds the spot, so I swim over and breathe up. On my first dive I pass through a school of lesser amberjacks, and continue down. I land on top of the wreck, but the visibility was only about 20' at this point. I see a nice sized yellowjack and take the shot. I grab the mono to try and keep the fish out of the wreck. I had to come up and I kept tension on my floatline. All of a sudden, it goes slack, and I'm pissed. I pull up the gun without a shaft on it.:angry5:.

I grab my small gun and immediately try to find the wreck again to try and see if the fish was in the wreck. No luck. The current had swept all of us off and we didn't mark the wreck when we found it. After about 20 minutes and several dives later, I find it again. I get to the wreck and I see this fish lying upside down on top of the wreck! I decide to attach my floatline to the wreck to mark it, because I was low on air and didn't want to lose the wreck again. One more dive and I had the fish + shaft in my hand!!!:hooray:

So I'm lucky to find the fish, but fortunately it also was a good shot.:D

You saw that! I thought that was appropriate! heheh. The Chronicles of Narnia is this children's story that came out as a movie recently.

One of the guys works on Saturday night live, but he had this group before then. They also did the video, which is linked. It's really funny, especially if you like Narnia or Cupcakes. Dropping Hamiltons like Aaron Burr.

That video above is hilarious:laughing3:

I jizzed in my pants!

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As have a few people that post here that didn't know better. Worse than that it can make you hesitate to drop a gun at depth and cause a blackout.

That's what I call post bait.

I had to drop a gun with a reel. I will have a floatline on my gun. I almost lost one last Friday because I was in crap vis and got swept away from the gun after trying to retrieve my shaft that I shot into a rock.

A reel is for convenience as Davie said. There are times when you don't want to deal with a line floating behind you. But Dan will chime in and talk about how to handle a floatline on the surface to minimize tangles.