Posts by Oscar

  • White shark encounter spearfishing Florida

    I found this video rather interesting and subsequently sent a link of the video to Dr. Chris Lowe (Professor Dept of Biological Sciences CSULB) since he has done a fair amount of research on GWS and lectures on them on the west coast. He authorized me to share his response:


    On May 14, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Chris Lowe <Chris.Lowe@csulb.edu> wrote:


    Hi Oscar,


    Very interesting video. In my opinion, the behavior isn’t that unexpected. It is not uncommon for a subadult white or tiger shark to exhibit that kind of investigative behavior. Did the spearfisher have a string of dead fish on him/her? That might explain why the shark was coming as close as it was. White sharks do eat other things, not just marine mammals. We know that adults will also eat fish and squid. While this probably isn’t preferred, it must obvious make do.


    Impressively, the diver did all the right things. Keep their eye on the shark, kept the speargun out in front of them and poke at the shark when it came near, and kept their back to the reef. That could be a great training video for teaching divers how to deal with a large shark encounter, where the shark is clearly investigating the situation. If the diver had a stringer of fish with them, it would have been more wise to give it up and head the other way. In Hawaii, we always advise spearfishers to put their fish on a long floating stringer and to keep the fish off their body.


    Chris


    Dr. Christopher Lowe


    Professor


    Dept of Biological Sciences


    California State University Long Beach


    1250 Bellflower Blvd.


    Long Beach, CA 90840


    Ph: 562-985-4918


    Fax: 562-985-8878


    CSULB Sharklab


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  • Cubera

    Quote from Dan

    Nice cubera and pic. What did it weigh? It looks like a big one but then you wouldn't be able to hold it out like that. I must admit this pic has me stumped.


    I will admit to having the same thoughts. I was looking to see if it was held up by a post or something but nothing apparent. But it does look lik a big Cubera. So - where is the "rest if the story"?

  • 1987 Mako 231 Restoration

    I have always loved the lines of the old Mako boats. Great story and great restoration. Good luck with the FAA. I retired from the FAA as an aviation safety inspector but started work as airways technician taking care of all the navigation equipment air traffic uses in their job. In Panama then Montana.


    Good luck and be prepared to really apply yourself - tough school.. :thumbup:

  • O'ahu dive and spearing report

    Quote from jaguigui

    Yeah, it's not really scientific or studied, but we noticed spearing rudderfish at the beginning of a dive usually attracts the sharks, we think because of their really stinky guts. Usually the ones that harass us are tigers and Galapagos sharks. The white tips usually don't bother us.


    Yes two bad sharks, the Tiger and Galapagos. Oceanic White Tip or the reef white tip? We had lots of the smaller white and black tip reef sharks around s all the time (Panama) would steal your fish if you weren't careful.

  • O'ahu dive and spearing report

    Quote from jaguigui

    Thanks guys! Yeah I was freaking out thinking it was enenue, rudderfish, which is normally passed up when shore diving cuz it brings in the sharks.


    Are you saying spearing a rudder fish will bring in sharks while spearing other's won't? Interesting. What kind of sharks do you have? Tiger's I imagine is one, what other's? The Hawaiian fish names elude me - but this rudderfish?


    http://m.myfwc.com/wildlifehab…/jacks/banded-rudderfish/

  • Miami spearfishing video by Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Nice video - same tournament as your previous video? Maybe a few more dancing girls, or maybe a lot more dancing girls, would have improved it a bit <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">


    Did you participate?


    Could you post the results?

  • First Fish

    That's great that your wife enjoys spearing. Great story and hope water is clear next time she goes spearing - makes it so much more fun. Great double too! Congratulations. :thumbup:

  • fast tuna

    Damn - that tuna was FAST. How in the hell was he able to nail it. Had to be expecting it but still......


    GREAT video! In the Med ? ?


    Wow!

  • Kayak diving setup


    Holy shit - hope you got tat asshols boat number and reported him. Jesus.


    I did a lot of shore diving off South Florida but always went at sun up so I could be off the water when the assholes went boating.


    Close call bud - dam!:@

  • Spearfishing World forum fish records

    Quote from hank

    This is kind of cheating since you Florida guys can't shoot these. But they are legal in Belize. 2010 I believe. We didn't weigh it but neither Jake, Pancho, Jorge (aka the Spaniard) or I could lift it off the deck of the boat completely. Minimum weight guess, 140 lbs. (I weigh about 180) Goliath Grouper. This was a while ago. Shot with my Riffe Baja Plus. Floatline. When I hit the fish it pulled the gun out of my hand like you pulling your finger from a baby's grip. Jake saw the floater go ripping across the water from the boat. But the fish died pretty quick. We at it for about 3 months.


    There were three of them. This was the smallest and was swimming last in the line. I've been to this spot many times since but never seen other goliaths there.


    http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o675/Hank_Bauman/6214_1135390796645_1583599415_331377_1448920_n_zpsb18038c8.jpg</a><a href="http://s1337.photobucket.com/user/Hank_Bauman/media/6214_1135390796645_1583599415_331377_1448920_n_zpsb18038c8.jpg.html">


    Much larger than this and the meat gets coarse. I have speared many but largest landed was 352 pounds. Hank what is the Riffe Baja speargun? I thought I knew all of the different Riffe spearguns?


    Nicely done. Looks like you have the perfect Panda for where you dive.

  • Contractions

    Quote from Liquid

    I'm not a terribly good diver. But I have been doing a lot of research. One of the videos I came across was this one. At about 2:40 in the video he starts to explain his viewpoints and opinions on contractions. He seems to think they are actually a good thing? at around 4:00 he gives his own experience with some positive results. I suggest watching the whole thing. What do you guys think?


    Freediving How to hold your breath longer - Breathe up techniques - YouTube


    . Why push it? No fish s worth it. Dive to YOUR comfort safe zone.

  • WTB Riffe 2 ATM Float

    Quote from hau

    WTB Riffe 2ATM Float.
    If you have a Riffe 2ATM float that you are not using and would sell to a spearo in need, please PM me.
    I can buy today and pay by PayPal.
    Thank you


    You finding big fish where you need a big float?Need stories sir


    Been a while - need good


    Still waiting and really needing small Asian women in bikini photos as requested by several of us AGES ago PLEASE


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