Posts by LunkerBuster

Wow. That is scary. Very happy he is okay!

Lobster pic is beautiful!! Glad it is working out for you. Keep the pics coming

Looks like a day from heaven. Glad you got out and enjoyed the ocean.

New camera or just really good viz??

Sick shots man!

I love the ascending shot! That is wall hanger material!

I wish that there was a less wide angel way to shoot the gopro. The FoV settings just crop the same image. Imagine if things looked real size in the vids.
Are all the small hd camcorders roughly the same? All fisheyed

They are 80$ leisure pro

Looking at the xs scuba line they have copies of a lot of other big selling masks. I bet it is VERY similar if you know what I'm saying

Very nice! Dive safely and well for many years in your new gear.

I like that grey tone a lot

More great pics for the speardiver catalog! Seriously, the logo in last pic looks like it is in a spot light!!

You were able to take advantage of that half a second of curiosity. He wanted to look at you just. One. More. Time. BAM! Perfect. Had you waited even a tenth of a second and I think he was gone. Well done sir!

Amazing snapper Marco. Looks like you caught him by surprise. He just started to take off and you had him

Wow Oscar that is intense. Did you just pass out from exhaustion? Wow. Such good luck. You are a blessed man

Quote from Wood Guy

From my point of view, it's not so much how fast the sound travels, since it's moving way faster than the spear. Rather, it's whether the fish tries to spook, and whether it can react fast enough to affect the impact point of the spear. I don't think you can make a gun quiet enough for a fish not to hear. It's well recognized that bubbles from SCUBA , or noise from bubbles, makes fish wary, and yet most of us have probably used a fish's curiosity to entice it out of a hole by rubbing the point of our spear in the sandy bottom. So, I think they hear (feel?) any noise that we are aware of, it's more a question of whether it spooks them, and if so, can they move fast enough to react and move out of harm's way in about .16 seconds. I suppose it depends some on the species, as well. I hunt mostly snapper and grouper- which move at glacial speed compared to wahoo or tuna. So, I think in every case the fish hears the shot since no gun is completely silent, it comes down to whether he wants to, or can, move quickly enough to affect shot placement. Make any sense?

And, will he move out of the way or into the shot?
I have shot at fish that were broadside shots only to end up with a fish kabob, speared right down the length of the spine. On longer than normal shots I will mentally adjust slightly favoring where I think the fish will go to flee from the threat, me.

I find it more of an issue with pelagic fish as they will bolt and leave while a lot of reef fish will stay in the area and sometimes not leave at all, returning right away to the their same crack or hole.

Much denser medium to propagate through. Salt and fresh would make a small diff too

Mark looks like a soldier contemplating the battle that waits before him. Great composition.

I was at speardiver hq yesterday and my short answer is... The new speardiver torch

For me there are a few factors. Durability, it has to hold up and handle water. Beam, I only need my light for caves and crevices so I want a fairly narrow beam that is very bright. And a good switch, has to be a slider switch, I have flooded many torches with twist style switches, and preferably a magnetic switch so it can't fail. Lastly, good battery source. I prefer torches with standard cell batteries just because they are more easily purchased

New speardiver torch is a homerun on all accounts.

Welcome to the forum.

Wow. That is a nice snapper amigo. Wow double

How deep?

Wow seriously!! I not an envious man but I would be alright with your lot. How about some pics? Living vicariously time!

Love the pics. You are really getting amazing with the pics man.

Looks great buddy. Glad you got out