It's just the standard head strap. I don't know of any dive specific head straps on the market.
Posts by Sam
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Is there a reason you did not shoot a few of those lings in the first video? They seemed large enough but my perspective on CA fish is probably a little off.
Most of the lings in that video were in the 25-28" range, perfect eating size (minimum size is 24"). We passed up a lot of lings that day. Sometimes it's just nice to swim with and marvel at the fish you pursue. At one point as I was creeping along the bottom, a ling sauntered up from behind me and brushed along my torso like I was no threat. . .he even looked back at me and I think we came to a mutual understanding. Moments like that are the reason I'm addicted to diving.
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when you shoot in caves are you choking your rubber's? and are the camera's attached to your masks or are you wearing like a gopro head strap
I like the polespear because it helps hone your stalking skills, and forces you to wait for the right shot to present itself. The one in the videos is a 5ft Crist polespear with an 18" shaft.
The rubbers on my little gun are not that powerful to begin with, so the shaft loses velocity and begins to drop about 3ft out of the muzzle. It works for the limited visibility and cave hunting we do though, as most fish I shoot with it (and the polespear for that matter) are less than 3 feet away.
The GoPro has a head strap that slips over the mask strap, and the second camera is just a handheld Canon powershot.
Oh, and the ling in the second video was just under 13lbs.
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Last week Poseidon presented us with beautiful 15-40 visibility and we took full advantage of it! This kind of vis doesn't happen often here, so we drop everything (work, school, even girlfriends :D) when it shows up.
It's really hard to put the gun down and focus on the camera when we have such amazing conditions to hunt in, and I always feel like so much more video could be taken. At any rate, here are a couple videos from the footage that we did manage to get.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYyHBF81sE
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Thanks guys.
Two stills from the gun cam:
http://img837.imageshack.us/im…reenshot20110404at925.png
http://img829.imageshack.us/im…reenshot20110404at924.pngDefinitely a Brown rockfish. It's a little hard to make out from the photo, but you can see a brown patch on the edge of the operculum, which is a good diagnostic characteristic. I also like to look at the dorsal spines; browns tend to have more deeply incised dorsal spines than grassies or kelp RF's.
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Hey Colin. Good to hear from you. Got a sea sampler job for the IPHC, don't know how long my contract will be, but it's gonna be sweet. All's well up here, lots of rain, tough ocean and no break in sight yet.
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What's up all, I am Sam. I live in Humboldt County, California and do most of my diving and spearing here, with an occasional visit to the stomping grounds of my youth in Southern California for a dive. Seems like I can grab bugs and octopus all day long, but I can't shoot a fish for the life of me down there!
Started diving much more once I moved to Humboldt, where six foot visibility is a good day. This might seem at odds with the change in visibility and temperature from SoCal, but I absolutely love the frigid, low visibility and often feel rather exposed if I'm diving with more than 15 feet of vis.
I graduated from Humboldt State last year with a degree in fisheries biology, and just got a sweet gig for the summer catching halibut in Alaska for research. :thumbsup2: Unfortunately, this means I'll miss a lot of the good diving time here, but I'm looking forward to finding some places up north that might be good for a dive mission in the future.
