How does the pendulum work? not familiar at all, it appears to be a weighted system to go down quickly then you retrieve it somehow?
Posts by Dude george
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Ramon :diver2::notworthy1::notworthy1::notworthy3: :notworthy3::thumbsup2: hope this translates :laughing:
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Awesome Vid, what was that flotsam the fish were aggregating under?
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Saw those in action this week diving with Ben and they looked great, Ben hook me up with some
Ive only used one type of tape and its has worked really well for me. Right when I started using them a lot of macks starting to come it closer to me to check me out, and i've also noticed the cuda's following me more. ANd yes, it does kinda catch the shark's eye when they're a crap ton of them around lol.
But the brand I use is called REFLEXILE. ive never had to change them, and they're still shiny to this day. The adhesive on them is amazing, never had one fall off. The commercial longliners use them on their hiflyers to mark them bouys.
Here's some pics
http://i79.photobucket.com/alb…gdude1232/IMG_3695CR2.jpg
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Marco almost identical story as you buddy, seeing those Cressi's made me chuckle Just ordered the C4 wahoo black after trying them out, I like the medium stiffness for free diving all day on the reefs, hummmm maybe I will get some Mustangs for Christmas and see what happens in the big blue :thumbsup2:
Probably Don will show some oldes fins than the ones I used, but here I go....
My first fins were Nemrod Baleares all rubber made in Spain. The rubber was so hard that normally my feet were destroyed after a whole day in the water. I found this pic in the web. I had them in black, blue and orange. They were so hard that normally breaked after few months...
http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/tc/2010/01/29/17239829.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i2yy…s1600/aletas+baleares.jpg
Then I got some Cressi's Rondine for my 14th birthday and I saw the light! They were so comfortable that I could dive all day long without any hurt! I gave those fins to a friend after 2 years of abuse and they were still in good shape!
http://www.skindivinghistory.com/gear/fins/Vintage/3.jpghttp://www.spearfishing-museum…ip/fins/f07/f07cijele.jpg
By that time my speargun was a Nemrod Clipper I Pneumatic, then I upgraded to a Clipper II.When I was 15 I Got a Mares Medisten (which I still keep in working condition) and a pair of Mares Concorde fins. The first "long fins" available for spearfishing :thumbsup2:
http://www.silahdunyasi.com/Up…/urunler/SD17.03.0168.jpg
Then I quit spearfishing for some like 10 years and started again. Obviously the rubber Mares Concorde were swollen and I bought some Plana's. This is the best pic I could find. Sorry. They were some kind of clear plastic blade with rubber pocket.Very comfortable, but not much power.
http://imagenes.lapapa.com/?i=132002835
Then I switched to the Plana's Avanti, same as Dan but yellow :thumbsup2:
http://www.uwhockey.org/colorado/maresHP.jpg
After a couple years, I felt the I had the needing of some REAL freediving fins, so I got the Sporasub H Dessault. first in Neon orange and then more camo, in green....
http://images02.olx.cl/ui/1/54/26/11534826_1.jpg http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/255/b130305mz9.jpg
Some time later I started participating in Italian forums and reading magazines, so I REALIZED I needed something beyond that. So I bought a pair of C4 Falcon 30 blades. Difference was really from earth to heaven. Specially after some time using them and switching back to plastic blades. I installed them to the H Dessault footpockets, which are nowadays the ones that better fit to my feet.
http://www.simones-hammerladen…alog/images/c4_falcon.jpg
I bought then some Sporasub Pure Carbon fins (wich I found really cheap), but didn't like them very much.
http://www.njuskalo.hr/image-w…-carbon-slika-2703666.jpg
Sold them after a couple month.
Also bought some waterways amber, wich I still have. They are better than plastic but far from Carbons.
Finally, like 5 years ago, I bought the C4 Mustang T700 VRG, which I use now and are the best fins I have ever had by far. Perfect power, perfect comfort, light to my feet. The only downside are the water rails that are made of a very soft rubber and are all broken after abusing them in the reefs.
http://www.simones-hammerladen…images/c4_mustang_vgr.jpg
Right now, I have 3 pairs of fins in Puerto Rico: Waterways, C4 Falcon and Mustang and one pair in Venezuela: C4 Falcon.
I'm happy with them.
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2 min deep dive with no float line or reel! crazy stuff Ramon :cool2:
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When do you use the drogue Don?
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Ben I will be in Grenada tomorrow and my cousin is taking me out free diving on Sunday up to our Grenadines, around sisters I expect or if water is flat might even go crazy to reindeer shoals (that can be crazy, lost 2 friends out there)
So if your in I will call you tomorrow and organize for Sunday with you, if you want and can organize the gear I will burn a tank with you on a deep sea mount if not no worries as no one else going scuba dives
I will show you some reefs off Point Sailines but you will have to go down 60 in stiff current to get to them...
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You could try PMing the man himself and asking
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Art :thumbsup2:
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With great difficulty but great idea Lunk, will make some calls tomorrow and if it's possible will join the Great Barry hunt, saw about 15 today but I only go for the trophy sizes...hoping for a 50ld+ when I go diving this weekend in Grenada, the next island down from where I am at now
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Lucky kid, wish i had a gun that nice
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Wow!! Man I have a vision of a Big Barry head framed on my wall as a 3 D piece of art, problem is I live in the Caribbean and have no clue how to get my head to you
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Nice times :thumbsup2:
The giant AJ were speared? -
Whoot whooot!! FISH AND A HALF!! :thumbsup2:
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Amazon.com:
ProEar 2000 Corona Scuba Mask: Sports & Outdoors
PROEAR 2000 WITH PRESCRIPTION LENSES | Earplugs - Disposable & Re useable | Earmold Australia
Hank the Corona model can be found for anywhere from 75-90 and seems to be targeted at free divers, been doing research for my sister-in-law as she can no longer dive due to ear issues -
Nice haul :thumbsup2: what are those boards?
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Nice one