Posts by Oscar

  • Switched to a 6.5 mm shaft

    Quote from Dan

    :laughing:


    Hank, 63" is 160cm so that will work. But the RA shafts are for euro trigger mechanism. Your Wong uses US shafts no?


    Yes Wong's are U.S. shafts.


    Dan you going to offer any U.S. shafts in the future? I use 7.5 mm which seems to be a good balance on my big 60 inch Wong.

  • Viva Diana

    Dan - you bring up a good point and certainly one that also crossed my mind in How Many People had tried and died to escape Cuba and make it safely to Florida BUT I did NOT relate that to Diana's feat. Consider Diana first tried to Make this particular swim 42 years ago when she was only 22 years old. That would be around 1971 more or less. Wasn't that before Castro essentially emptied his jails and basically said you want to leave - leave and before the flood? I thought that was well before the worst of the cruseros ????? (if that is the correct term).


    I see Diana's headstrong fixation as unrelated to the sad history of the strait of Florida and the cruseros.


    When you consider how bloody dangerous that narrow body of water is then her feat seems even more incredible.


    No, we shouldn't forget the losses or the cause - but in my view unrelated to Diana.


    Open for other's thoughts and more discussion but certainly a valid point to be further considered.


    My .02 cents

  • Lost Gun


    Wow scary as hell Don. Imagine if the huge lure had hooked you instead of your speargun - what idiots drive these boats? When I lived in South Florida I didn't have a boat and only dove from shore. I tried to get out from Varios locations in Broward at first light and get back before the morons with a drink in hand started flying around in their fancy boats. Idiots. Hope the OP gets his gun back but seems remote.

  • PV Shark Watch

    Quote from ladvr

    Until yesterday I had not seen a shark in over a month. I had just paddled back out after catching a wave and was sitting on my board. It was not not a Shamu style breech. It happened super fast and if it were not right next to me I would have dismissed it as a dolphin. I saw the head , mouth and teeth for just a split second. Only one other surfer was able to recognize it as a shark. Headed back out right now.


    One really doesn't know what one would do in a specific case until he or she was in a position to actually do it. So me with a cup of coffee reading the Sunday paper could eaily say "chance of being bitten are a million or more to one so Sure let's go surfing to same beach again today, shark or no shark".


    But in reality might not be so easy actually getting into the water. Just saying. :nono:

  • Spear Diver dive watch

    The Rolex Submariner I bought in the Ships Store while I served on a USN Destroyer (Tin-Can) in 1965 is my favorite. At least it was until the Rolex Service Center in Singapore "overhauled" it and messed it up. :nono:


    Rolex and authorized facilities NOW want USD $600.00 to restore it. Guess I will wait :@


    Been on me in practically every ocean in the world - need to budget and restore it

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Hey Don - your home project is looking great. Really nice detailed work - well done :thumbsup2:


    What happened to you? Hope you get off the crutches soon - late summer WSB and YT out there waiting for you.

  • New gun Italiano Sea Hawsub to pulleys

    Quote from Don Paul

    I would just hang it on the wall and fondle it every week end, but I'm a romantic.:D;)


    That would look great with a voluptuos black haired Italian girl.....skin out black Cressi Sub suit....Cressi Rondine rubber fins.... and a micro mask getting out of a Fiat 500.:D:thumbsup2:


    Ciao, Donzi


    Or an Alfa Romeo 2002 model Coupe. :thumbsup2:

  • Stop bashing México

    Don - I just want to say thanks for the new perspective. You are a classy person and I respect you and mourn your loss. Thanks for the telling - obviously very difficult for you. Gracias amigo.

  • Spearfishing wetsuit sizing help

    Send a couple of really cute "chiquitas" to Dan's shop in Miami and get the gals to "sweet talk" Dan in customizing one for you. :laughing3:


    Ask him to start making a one piece or 2 piece 1 or 1.5 mm camo too for warm water diving. I need one soon and Dan doesn't offer them :(. I need one soon Dan :D

  • Aqualung buys OMER and Sporasub

    I did a little research when I got home and it seems that Aqualung was just a generic term first used by Cousteu in the Silent World and U.S. Divers appears to be the manufacture - I dug out my second regulator bought in the 50's and it is a U.S. Divers two hose double stage regulator that I used until I couldn't get parts for it in the mid 80's. My first was a double hose single stage but I don't have it anymore.


    Anyone know more on the early Cousteu design regulators of the late 40's early 50's? I still have my first real fins - black rubber full foot Cressi total length 18 inches :). I actually used these until I replaced them with Omer Tuna's in 1999. Amaing how esy it was to free dive and spearfish to 100 feet with that equipment but of course we were teens then and didn't knw better.


    Wish I still had my full face oval masks as momentous to keep with my Cresi fins and U.S. Divers regulatr.


    I remember diving Cozumel in the 80's with no B.C., no pressure gauge, just a basic strap and my double he's U.S. Divers regulator and everyone else had B.C's etc. was often asked if my regulator was something new!!! :laughing:


    Sorry, brings back old memories.




    Here is what I found: Aqua-lung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Aqualung buys OMER and Sporasub

    Dan - you and others may have more historical perspective, but when I started diving in the early 50's, unless early dementia is setting in, I recall my first regulator was an Agua-Lung - yes? - I seem to recal that was the firt commercial regulator - Anyone know? :confused1:


    And if memory serves me right, many of the early wide oval masks were Agua-Lung brand.


    Will need to do a search when I get home this evening.


    The key question today is: will they (Aqua-Lung) understand and continue Omer's freediving/spearfishing tradition? Time will tell I guess. I have Omer equipment (mask, snorkel, fins) but think there are better products available today IMHO.