Posts by Oscar

Worked for me. Interesting video done differently. Thanks.

Edited for comment: I was curious about the number of small fish and also the variety taken and entered in the competition as shown at the weigh-in. Do all fish regardless of species count the same for points or dd different fish count more points than others. Looked like a couple of large Lion fish in one of the coolers.

Some impressive deep dives on the 120 ft site.

What float line are they using? Looked thin like a ski rope and tangled easily. Could be very bad if they had speared something really big or a larger Amberjack and got tangled up like they did. They need your new float line.

Did you participate Dan?

Damn - bought a new 50 foot only a few weeks ago to supliment my 100 ft Riffe float line :@

Quote from LunkerBuster

Wow!!! Just wow!! That is insane. Given the shape and fins on a cobia I would have thought that was a bull shark most likely

Ditto

Like Hank said - I've had some pretty big ones just come up to me in a couple of spots I hit when I return to dive in Panama. Truth is, I tend to pass more often than not - they WILL bend your shaft or worse and when I'm in Panama I don't have many spares. Getting rarer now, but 100 pounders have been taken by freedivers in Panama but my PB was around 80 pounds a long long time ago. Now if they are out in the open and under 50 lbs - maybe

But I never saw one spearfishing in Florida that was more than 10-15 pounds but they must be there somewhere.

Quote from jaguigui

Thanks for the reply oscar. I may end up adding maybe 1-2lbs more since I switched to a 3mm from a 1.5mm suit. I appreciate it!

More rubber needs more weight. I suspect getting your weight to where you are neutral around 15-30 feet, depending on your normal depth to hunt, will help you on the initial decent to glide down. I struggle getting my weight right when changing wetsuits.

Caveat: I am NO longer a deep diver

Not sure if this helps but I use a mid handle and basically, really don't think about it, but essentially hold it by the handle in my right hand (right handed), with back of gun semi tucked under my right arm/elbow loosely held again my side. I throw my legs in the air with jack knife which slides me down enough to mostly push me deep enough for fins to be underwater.

I do sometimes just hold the speargun about mid way with hands over bands and body of gun.

If you need to use Breast stroke your weights may be too light and/or you aren't throwing your legs high enough on the jack knife. Getting the weights on your weight belt right is the key.

What impressed me, and why I posted to share: was the beauty, the grace, the symmetry, of the dance between two beautiful creatures in an exceptionally IMHO well crafted example of cinematography.

A beautiful animal - the Oceanic White Tip Shark
A well built female human - Julie
Two top predators (human & shark)
In a graceful moment in time captured beautifully

That's all

Nice Doggies! Wow, lots of tuna, clear water, oh yeah a few sharks.

Where do you depart from to find such a sweet spot? Awesome.

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That is a really nice wetsuit. I want one. Where is it made? <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">
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Is it Yamamoto 45, yakasuzi 29, Goodyear 60, or perhaps Llanta 16-50? <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"> <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">

Doesn't matter, it will be my next wetsuit when my made in China Yamamoto 45 wetsuit wears out !

It was great how the white tips came out of the blackness at the beginning. Ballsy gal - Pelagic White Tips are very unpredictable. I've never seen one. I know they exist in Red Sea (Ihab), western Pacific, and probably lots of other places. Beautiful animal!

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I understand the Pelagic White Tips have killed a few divers in the Red Sea in the recent past. Never met one but they look bad. Forgot to mention we also had lots of Hammerheads - schooling ones that ignore you and big bad 12 + footers that don't.

Nice photo of your team and yes looks like big fast boat.

Always have wanted to dive the Red Sea and had a chance 2 years ago (work trip) but wasn't able to go :@

Looking forward to more stories/photos maybe start your own continuous thread.

Damn he'll of a haul. All spearfishing? Wow! Really nice haul, is this normal? Wow.

Diver? What diver? <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 just ask a couple of gals that were on th beach or do you supply them with each wetsuit? If the later I'm ready to order one weekly <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">

Woman 'taken' by large shark in Australia - CNN.com

That's a nice Cuda Ihab - what kind of sharks to you encounter? We had lots of Bull's Tigers, and both black & white tip reef sharks as well as Dusky's, and other's I never knew the species. Bull's were bad and I had lots of encounters.

Interesting thread - old but glad it was revived. We had lots of barracudas in Panama, the small schooling pacific barracudas that were a treat when I saw them and of course the big Cudas in the Atlantic side. I've dived both oceans on same day only being 50 miles apart.

I have speared a few (Atlantic) but never ate them - we had tooooo many good fish to fool with barracudas but I remember being scared shitless one time by a REALLY BIG Cuda and not from any threats but just by his size.

I was free diving the Chagres River up stream from Ft. San Larenzo on the Atlantic coast of Panama looking for snappers, snook and occasional groupers. Depending on close to the coast we were - determined how deep the fresh water layer was that we dove through to find the salt water and good fish below. I dived through about 15 feet of fresh water, popped through the wavy layer into clear salt water and saw this LOG hovering below me. It was the largest biggest Barracuda by a long ways of any I had ever seen, even to this date. I surfaced and moved down current a long ways before diving again <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">

Great tribute to a unique, talented, creative individual. R.IP. Hobie.

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I looked and looked but I couldn't see the snow leopard. I think they screwed up on that picture. There isn't really one there. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Ha ha Hank. I looked and looked and was ready to ask my 14 year old twins for help before I finally found the Snow Leopard - It's there but it really was NOT representative in comparison to the others. I had to try many times before these old eyes found him (looks like a him- ha ha)

I will send you a pm not to spoil it for others still looking <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">

Aloha Makoa - I will jump in because I recently made the transition.

Caveats - I'm an old guy who can't do 30 meters anymore and I really don't push myself or my fins any more. Moreover, I only get to go diving once or twice a year since I need to get on an airplane - but my experience might be helpful.

I went from plastic to fiberglass to carbon fins recently. Plastics worked fine and would have been great for me had I not tried carbon fins. I tried fiberglass and didn't feel that much improvement over plastic but probably because the foot pockets weren't a good fit of me. I had many friends suggest carbon fins to maximize my abilities considering my age and lack of much diving. I was very reluctant to spend that much $$$$$ considering my limited diving opportunities.

But - carbon's were about double $$$ Fiberglass and I did some consulting that put a little extra $$$ in my pocket and bought my Carbon fins before two dive trips last year.

I will never go back to anything else. Hard to articulate but I just don't feel the fins anymore. Seems like I had to "work" with my plastics but the carbon fins just feel natural, smooth, effortless to me. For me - worth every penny and I just wouldn't go back to anything else.

-o

Great video Ben - hamachi sashimi