Posts by black1

  • "Deep World Wide" magazine

    Thought I would let you all know I received my first copy of Deep magazine and it is a beautiful looking magazine, filled with great articles and superb photo's of spearing around the world. I would say is is a little better than Hawaii Skin Diver as far as the articles and superb photo's. It is in English and they also have it in other languages and comes from Greece which is why the majority of the articles and photo's come from Europe, but, it also has alot of Africa and Coral Sea stuff. The best thing about the magazine is the 30 to 40 minute dvd that comes with every issue, it is high definition video of different areas, this issue is mainly in the Coral Sea and has some incredible spearing and great narration along with it.
    The 6 issues a year cost $90 but I believe is well worth it to start a nice collection of these fine magazines and also to have several hours of good dvd's. I got my subscription through a well known spearo named Harolf Dean which some here may know or have heard of, nice guy and good to talk to gentleman. If you guys here want I will shoot him an e-mail to see if I can give out his number or e-mail so people can place orders.
    It talks not only about spearing, but, about freediving and it's blend with spearing and features a "training apnea section" so we spearo's can train in a pool (with a buddy) for O2 and CO2 reservation and tolerance respectively. Here are some of the articles titles:


    Shaft Velocity: nice article about different shaft velocity with different band setups


    Spearfishing in Mozambique


    Training Tables


    Interview with Martin Stepanek


    R U a Good Spearo?


    Take care guys and safe diving to you all, Im out.

  • Which spearfishing mask do you use?

    Thought i would chime in on the Sphera mask for a bit. I use a micromask and as we know it is a great mask, but, I also have the aqua lung Sphera mask which many freedivers use and is a mask of choice by the Performance Freediving crew which is when I was turned on to it. A few things about the mask, very low volume a bit more than the micromask I believe which is great for freediving and spearfishing, it is a plastic lens so there is no fogging, no needing to clean and scrub out with toothpaste or anything which is real nice, it has a good size nose piece for easy clearing as well.
    The dislikes by those who try them on are the slight distortion out of the corner of your eyes due to the curved lens, at first I thought the same thing...this sucks...but after giving it ample time it was no longer any problem and I actually started to really like the mask. When you look straight ahead it is fine like all masks and it is only when you look to the corner of your eye left or right does it "bend" only a little the image, but, not to any extreme point I must say. I started to realize that this extra width of the lens were it bends does a few things which can be beneficial for a spearo.
    The first thing is fit comfortably to your face during deep descent, that extra little curve bends to your face while descending and there is absolutely no mask squeeze at all, very nice for me. The 2nd thing is that it acts almost like a clear silicone mask in that it allows you to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye which can be helpful to spot a fish, it does this without letting in alot of light like a clear mask frame does because the mask itself is black. The 3rd thing is the sheer lightweight of the mask, after a few minutes you completely forget the mask is on your face, it is very lightweight and comfortable. The 4th and final thing is no fogging at all, because it is plastic lense (yes it can scratch easily, but, keep it in the plastic case when done and your golden) there is no need for toothpaste, lighter or anything of the sort to keep it from defogging and because it is plastic there is no magnification of the lens!!! what fish you see or objects you see is the actual size underwater, this can be very handy for eyeing up certain size fish, we have all shot a fish and then upon surfacing realize, crap, it's not really the size I thought it was, this mask eliminates that problem. I know several very good spearos here and in North Carolina that use it for spearing and love it for these same reasons.


    This is my little review of the Sphera mask, may not be to everyones liking, but, that is what I have learned by using it for some time now, I now have both the micro and the sphera which do a great job, the Sphera is much less money though, around $55.


    Take care all.

  • WOW!!!!

    Those RIB boats are nice looking, perfect for the med and maybe parts of the Keys as well. The first one on the original post I have seen at Port Everglades crusing next to the cruise ship when we were leaving port, real long and mean looking thing, I think they can place a 50 caliber machine gun on the front of it, at least it looked like there was one with a guy manning it.

  • Mako large gear bag

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    Sorry Dan, did not know were to put this, feel free to move to appropriate location. I wanted to let you all know I ordered this Mako large gear bag because it looked real nice and was relatively cheap considering most gear bags. I got it today and man is it real nice, great construction and very durable with nice zippers and carrying straps. The bag has 2 long zip pockets on each side to hold your fins or 2 sets of them easily, the ends have 2 large wide pockets for storing mask's, gloves, booties, sunblock, tools or anything you need and the main compartment is real nice and big for full body wetsuit, rashguards, extra dry clothes, towels, sandals or any other gear you may need to bring on a boat. I also love that it has on both sides a real cool spearo graphic along it. All in all it is a great looking and great constructed bag I recommend for someone who is looking for one.

  • Hog snapper with Orange butter sauce

    This is an easy dish and also easy cleanup which the women like. I use whole hog snapper with this, especially when they are of a smaller size. I first scale the hogs and then gut them and also clip with scissors the top and side fins off so it doesn't puncture the foil, you will understand in a moment why.


    Ingrediants:


    small whole scaled and gutted hog snappers (cut vertical slits in the fish down to the bones, important)
    1/2 cup of orange juice (i like it with pulp)
    butter
    salt (pepper if desired but I dont like it with this dish)
    cinnamin (teaspoon or more if desired)
    brown sugar (1 large tablespoon size)
    Orange or Red peppers (sliced)
    Onion sliced thin
    Garlic sliced thin
    shallots sliced thin (I use a small one for 2 fish)
    few sprigs of thyme


    Aluminum Foil sheets....simply buy some foil and pull and tear off 2 sheets the same size and a few inches longer than the fish, around 4 to 5 inches.


    combine the Orange juice, cinnamin, brown sugar in a bowl or a cup and set aside.


    place 1 piece of foil down and place a few slices of onion, Red or Orange pepper slices, shallot slices and a few thin slices of butter.


    salt fish


    Place garlic slices and thyme sprigs and some pinches of butter inside the vertical slits in the fish on both sides and then place the fish on top of the ingrediants already on the 1st piece of foil.


    place rest of ingrediants (onion, peppers, shallots) and butter on top of fish and then pour the wet ingrediants (orange juice, cinnamin, brown sugar) over the entire fish, it is best to make just enough juice so it covers the fish but won't run off the fish and outside the foil.


    place 2nd piece of foil on top of fish and then nice and tightly roll and pinch the foil around the entire fish making sure you get a really good seal so no liquid gets out and so that no heat can escape from the package.


    place on sheet pan and in the oven for 20 minutes on 350, the foil should puff up and look like a balloon which means you sealed it nicely, the fish is now steaming nicely in the foil and when it's done simply pull it out, place on a plate and slice the top of the foil and peal back, bamo you have a really good tasting Hog snapper with Orange butter sauce, when done simply throw away the foil package.


    Enjoy