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Posts by virgili
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RIP Albert Falco (17 October 1927 – 21 April 2012)
Before he has been scuba diving for years in the the Cousteau team, A. Falco was a pretty proficient spearo ...
pic of thirties spearfishing club poster showing him in action with a nice brown grouper! -
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Is that a silky shark in the picture?
a couple of blue sharks patrolling all around in the dirty blue water...
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What are those ears on the mask for?
pic could be used as an amazing avatar...;)
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sad destiny!:(
Off False Bay coast is the Seal island: thousands of seal leave there year long. It's an easy daily snack for the numerous GW patrolling all around: natur has been working naturally there for centuries...GW breaching trips and cage diving is the main tourist star attraction.
So GW get conditioned all the time to attack lures and bait. Really terrifying while observing the agressivity of these predators: a surfer is obviously a possible prey.
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welcome aboard!;)
Bluefin tuna do patrolling in august/ sept off the Donegal Coast... probably visit this island?? -
Pretty rare and amazing thirties pics showing a spearo loading a spring gun and a nice capture made.:rolleyes1:
Pics from a very rare book written by Dr Pulvenis in 1940 about spearfishing. Complete Gogler from Guy Gilpatric has been published in 1934. At the time action took place on the same spots/ French Riviera...
First speargun has been made there in the early thirties from a DIY bicycle pump. -
I woud like to share a kind of "check list" made about spearfishing trip ups and DOWNS... items that could mainly wrecked your spearfishing stay or not! Spearos do not have obviously any control on most of them...
So I have been recently staying for one week in Hout Bay/ South Africa: not my first steps in spearing Cape Town area or freediving the magnificent SA coast.A check list of some concerns if you plan a faraway trip, in particular... but there are probably much more items and your experienced feedback is welcome!
-Wil you get sick or injured just before leaving: no!
-Will you get perso/ pro problem making the trip canceled? no!
-Will you get all your stuff after the flight? NO!:( and I had to wait three days and an half before they delivered my diving and gun bags from USA, wrecking 1/2 of my stay
-Will the capitain/ crew be fit: yes!
-Will the boat be ok during all your stay: Yes! but one of the 250hp motor broke down at the time we were getting back earlier during the last day because of an unexpected storm. I guess we have all amazing boat problem to share wich wrecked your trip?
-Will mother nature be friendly with you? certainly Not! as usually there... 20% may be, . You may observe in this area "the four seasons in the same day". We had to cancel several times boating because of he main concern: the swell. Despite a light wind, the offshore swell can increase up to 12/ 15ft in a couple of hours, making diving from the boat unsafety and impossible to organize. Currents are pretty strong there because we had to boat on a fishy point where the warm-water Aghulas current meets the cold water Benguela current and turns back on itself, a point that fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point. So water temp inshore was about 9 C and 19 C off shore on the surface but dramatically dropping beyond 15feet depth . I have been staying there 7 days and I finally could only make 2 and1/2 days boating with fair sea conditions.
Will the fish be present/ active during your stay? April is one of the high tuna fishing moment there but pretty much less fishy than the years before at the same time
I could only spot a couple of about 30kg yfin tuna and few medium size longfin tuna: a little restless/ deep and scattered school : Empty!
We have been trying every day to hunt close to a longliner boat at about 40/ 50 miles off the coast. Action during deep sea fishing ("heck)" may attract tuna from the depth close to the surface... but it did'nt work as well as chuming. In this context it tysed much more seals and sharks++: mako and blue everywhere patrolling.
You have better leaving aside a possible GW encounter is in this contex or you should stay sticked on the deck...;) -
Nice fat snapper:thumbsup2:
congrat's to the record holder;) -
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Amazing the size of the tuna
very close footages taken of bft:
Bluefin tuna freediving: underwater video best off. - YouTube
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nice "antiques"...
at that time a lot of creativity! -
scuba diving tourism no limit..
Quotei guess if a tiger eats your buddy it would be good to have it on video.
probably yes...Divers seem to have not be well prepared and informed about tiger behavour.
At the time the tiger was trying to bite the diver leg, it probably was keen to taste a possible prey and to check if it could be too risky to keep on (or not). The human staying vertical in the water puzzle the shark.Divers should, in my opinion, continously visually control the tiger and do not accept it entering in the personal space diver.
The tigers have been using to finish the job: if it bite you, it kill you and eat entirely you in few minutes ... that's it! just a couple of minute to open a hundred lb turtle carapace and to eat the meat.:@ -
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Nth spearfishing trip there...
A two weeks cold front/ windy has been making hunting in the blue impossible but enjoying coral reef hunting in 70/ 150 feet deep waters and a couple of isolated reefs at about 2 h boating pioneering.
Cubera breeding season is closed and snappers will migrate there in april."Pez leon"/ lionfish are everywhere: Jose my cuban colleague told me that he was stung three times while cleaning these invasive specie: first time was pretty painfully, but then less...could it be a possible poison "immunization"?
Hunting focused only on hogs, cubera and snapper.
Sometimes sharky water (grey/ bull) but nothing disturbing. Barra showed themselves much more sassy/ agressive than usually, so that we have each time to bring back the captures to the boat.
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amazing encounter made so deep!!:confused1:
pic of the same shark specie/ "artic shark" caught in 2008 in a net on the atlantic canada coast: massive / ugly predator. -
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As usually pleased to share on this board trip reports and to get frendly/ well experienced feedback from our spearo colleagues.:)
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Video taken in august 2011 at about 200 miles off the Cape Cod coast.
Bigeye tuna hand line fishing... action! -