Posts by tinu

  • Tobago 07/08

    for the ones who havent seen this vid before on youtube.until i got some new underwaterpics, here my first filming i did underwater. quality not the best, but for the first try still not bad. please attention! the youtube channel where this vid come from could lead you to part 2 of that vid. if you somehow ending up watching the second part of that vid, you will be confronted with some scuba lobsterdive, with shooting of hogfish. i know this is a freediving forum, so please watch part 1,enjoy,
    watch part 2 if you want on your own risk.
    all the best....


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuQbrNsq3s

  • bluewater freediving azores

    hi,
    just get this pic from my friends in santa maria. 3 weeks ago they caught this one one rod and reel.
    just nice to imagine that these fishes swimming around there, thats why you should always carry a very big float when spearfishing over there. hope the link work.


  • Hoods and boats

    very intresting thread, and you making a good point here.
    i will take the recent events (another diver run over by a boat) and this
    thread here, to write about my own boataccident.
    over the past years me and my divingpartners expierienced a good bit of boat incidents. most of the boatdrivers in trinidad and tobago dont know what a diving float and flag look like. most of the fishingboats even accustomed to pass close at anything floating in the sea. could be a
    fishpotmarker or else that attract fish to be around, or whatever lost in the sea. some tourist on jetskis obviously think that a nice float with flag is something for them to race around.happen to me some weeks ago, 300ft from a beach, i was on the bottom, hear them come close fast, and finally saw them on top of me passing fullspeed 30ft, one left and one right of my float.another big danger are touristcruise and speed boats.
    these drivers getting drunk and what else, getting busy dancing with some
    touristgirls on the boat, and dont care where the f... they driving.
    happen to me 2007, 1km offshore, big float/flag, speedboat with tourist
    driving straight at me. duckdive, 2-3 fin kicks, rolling upside down and watching the two 250hp props cutting the water 5-6ft on top my head.
    but it was in march 2008 when i was diving with some friends in trinidad.
    the vis 20ft, 3 of us was diving with no floats close to shore and to each other, with 2 man in the inflatable driving and watching us.
    there was a lot of boattraffic around, but after a while we was getting accustomed to always hear some boats in the distance. at one point i ended up about 200ft from shore while my buddys was still checking some rocks.
    so the boat drove over to pick them up. instead of floating on the surface waiting, i decided to make a next dive. down for a minute, i start hearing this engine coming closer fast. i decided to speed up and look for the boat. pushing my head out of the water the bow from a 32ft piroge driving at 50kmh with a 150hp outboard, rising 3ft in front my head.
    pushed under the boat, i remember to try pushing myself off the boat with my left arm, trying to get out of the line where the engine will pass.
    then silence until i surfaced again and start to scream. filled with adrenalin i knew i was hit but couldnt say where or how bad.
    to the boat, to the next hospital, and after checking and x-ray the good news. i should be able to recover all my injuries.
    the enginefoot caught my right arm, the prop leave some skin, muscles and tendants cut. the wing on top the prop hit my chest on the same side, leave some broken ribs and so.
    i was back in the water after 6 weeks, diving 90% after 4 month,95% today.
    my diving is very different today. i am much more focused and relaxed,
    i dont dive more then 3 days in a roll,and i can hear boats as far as grenada and will stay on the surface until they gone for sure. and most of all i am much more thankful that i am able to dive.
    the day of the accident,i was far the most expirienced and fittest diver in the water. diving 4-5 days a week, under all conditions, many of the diving alone. here is where the problem started. i wa getting so accustomed dealing with all the problems that spearfishing involves, that i got so overconfident. if something would happen, it would happen to anybody else but not to me. i lost completly the focus for the most obvious
    danger that day. this chain of sensless mistakes, that probably every rookie would trying to avoid, was teaching me the biggest lesson of spearfishing up to today.
    NEVER EVER TRUST A BOATDRIVER !!!! dont matter how big your float, how good your ears and eyes, DONT TRUST THEM !
    but even more important to me : NEVER TRUST YOURSELF !
    doesnt matter how good you think you are, how safe you are, never start to feel bulletproof. spearfishing never ends, ther are always new problems to expierience, and old ones you may tend to forget.
    to come back to this thread, i agree with dan. i think hoods are increasing the possibility of boat accidents. i had to wear one in the azores because of cold water, and i couldnt hear boats close as 200-300ft.
    today i using a lycra hood wich allows you to hear almost as good as without one. and it still gives you good protection of sun and jellys.
    ps. lost my riffe comp.4 at that day. 3 weeks later another diver found it still loaded, and returned it.
    took it as a sign to keep on diving. ;)
    safe dive, happy live

  • Good Techniques and Practices

    very intresting thread. muuch to learn again here.
    i developed my own personal diving-guidelines. just the basics, easy to remember, use it almost like a prayer
    before and after the dive-day.
    1. always make sure you come back alive
    2.always make sure you had fun
    3.if nature allows you, come back with nice fish

  • bluewater freediving azores

    hi,
    i went to santa maria in aug./sept. 2008 for a few weeks. the idea was to find out if my divingskillz will work in another part of the world then tobago/trinidad, since i never dived anywhere else.. as well i wanted to do some underwaterfilming, since i never had much practice. i contacted paulo reisa, from bwexpeditions, he lives on the island and spearfish there all his life. he have a tackle/spearfishing shop on the island( rabitechdealer). so i went there, santa maria is a small island, 10 by 10 km, and 5000 people. 1500 km of portugal, in the middle of the atlantic, there is nothing much to do then fishing. paulo knows the water very good. there are some pinneclas around the island, rising from deep waters to 60-120 feet below the surface. water is mostly crystal blue.
    vis 30-40m,norma. around these pinneclas bluewaterdrifting. big wahoos,50-80 p and big amberjacks are the main target. saw some big bigeyetunas and yellowfin 50-150 p passing sometimes in the distance, never get a shot and when i had a shot ,i had no gun, but cam.get some on line. these waters also attract a lot of dolphins,whales,mantas etc. something was al;ways to see. there is also an area(i forgot the name) 25 miles of the island, a underwaterplateau 1 -2 squaremiles, rising from 3000meter to 100-200 feet below surface. never got to go there, the weather have to be good, and you have to go with at least two boats, for safety. there is where most of the game fishing boats get there big marlins and tunas etc. there is also excelent shore diving. waves on one side of the island, just go to the sheltered side. i was diving 5-6 of seven days. boat and shore about fifty-fifty. the shore dives have amazing structures and a lot of marine life. the brown grouper is the only protected species. i saw average 3-5 in a day, between 10-50 pounds. amberjacks, hog fish,trevallys,lippfish,mottled grouper,bream,barracuda,you get regulary. licence for a month cost 20.-us. 10 fish per day/person limit.
    people are great, had a great place to stay, for 300.-us month, food is cheap. i gave all my fish to my host.
    they cooked for me almost dayly for free, and picked me up after diving, when i was in some bay with plenty fish, and to tired to ride back home on my bike. paulo reisa really made no wrong promises about the place,
    he really made this time in santa maria a time to remember all my life. if any of you ever plan to go there,
    let me know, or check him by yourself. wow, havent wrote so much for a long time.
    all the best....

  • intro

    hi,
    anthony was sending me the link to this forum.see some nice pics and vids and good infos here.
    spearfishing a good bit the last years, started to take some pics out of the water, and since last year
    some filming underwater. mostly for my local boatman, and fishingpartners,and their familys to see.
    happy dive, happy life !

  • Spearfishing in Tobago. Summer 2008

    hi,
    this vid,"tobago summer 08" was made by richard p.junior. he,his father and me diving often together.
    they using 3/8" riffe shafts, and they drilling an extra hole for the second barb. but they dont like to shoot in caves or at rocks. i dive little different. accustomed shooting anything, anytime, everywhere, so i use the
    5/16 shaft, longer rubbers and one barb. i think the music in this vid is a venezoelan group that he know personal, "naturalmente". greets