Posts by Don Paul

  • white sharks

    I agree with Chris Lowe that the population is thriving, just look at the sharp increase in the number of GWS at Gudalupe Island in the last 25 years. My guys used to get big yellowtail there yearly without sightings..... welll except for the one that killed Al S. and the one that hit Harry I. driving him up out of the water and over the sharks back after he unloaded the gun in his face.
    I dove with Harry after that and I felt like I was diving with a shark magnet out in the blue.;)


    Cheers, Don

  • PS3 help

    Quote from Dan

    It's probably missing some drivers. Is it capable of installing them from the CD that came with the camera? Try taking the card out of the camera and connect a card reader to the PS3. Geek out.


    I was going to try the CD route but it won't even pull images from my memory stick when I stick it in the the USP ports. I PS3 I have gets it software on line for the photo section. I just up loaded the latest this AM. I'm going to go find the camera CD in the den and give it a spin.


    Now where is my case of Coke, Roundhouse pizza and D+D avatars.:@


    D

  • PS3 help

    Any one here have a PS3 ? I bought my kid one but it doesn't see my Canon power shot 750, I've tried
    2 different USB cords and the Canon down loads fine on my lap top. I get a pop up that says '' unknown
    device. I emailed Sony support but a reply could be 48 hrs. Any one have a new PS3 ? Thanks in advance guys. Now where is the geek squad....^^^^


    Cheers, Don

  • I shot some fish

    Great job mate, nice looking Hoo, :thumbup: Putting you girl on fish will go a long way, now she has a great story to share with the girls. You guys make a great looking couple for sure.


    The the fur dog have to eat too, at least it was not a bull shark. I have seen a few hoo hit back there over the years. I aim at the eye and I usually hit behind the gill plate on the spine. What shaft are you shooting ?


    Cheers, Don

  • white sharks

    Thanks for your patience Chris, I wish I could find the 8mm sony vid a girl from the Santa Monica Blue Fins
    has of my encounter at Johnson Rock in very clear water. I'll try to look her up this winter but years ago I watched it so much I burned it into my brain and I still feel funny diving there some times. I think I'm just getting soft now that I have a son. I know I'll try to be more careful then 11 years ago. I don't have a lot to prove to myself or my ego now that I've used many of my 9 lives.


    Cheers Don

  • bluewater euro

    Quote from phil herranen

    nice gun steve . how much flex did the stock have when 3 bands were loaded ? and what do you think is a acceptable amount of flex.?
    phil


    Phil, I have seen ungrooved Hibiscus 6 foot Tahitian local guns flex up to 3/8 in the center when in the water 12 hrs and powered by 2 healthy 5/8 bands. :@:@
    But... it didn't mater to the expert waterman.;)... they still threaded 1/4 spring steels shafts through the eyes of Bonita at 15 feet of the tip. I have a early open track 6' barrel gun I built with a 1/8 downward bow the last 20''s. I cut the groove on my bridge port while the thin teak barrel had 3 5/8 300% elongation bands cocked to a 3'' rod seared in the mech. That gun was a 25' killer for several years before getting reshaped and fitted with a 72'' 6061 T6 foam filled grooved barrel. After a hr of pool time I could thread a 3'' target 22 feet from the tip. I think a skilled shooter can adapt to the differences if he spends enough pool or target time. All that matters is the hunter's marksmanship coupled with a tool he can harvest game with successfully time after time.
    I believe it's the Indian and the arrow: The tribes best archers will not take any deer on the far side of the river with out a swim, canoe ride or a Sharps 45/70.^^^^


    Love your fine guns Phil and Steve.:thumbup:


    Cheers, Don

  • white sharks

    Quote from chris oak

    Come on Don, you can't keep us hanging like that! Plus you might be saving a life because we'll know how to avoid problems. You wouldn't want to go to sleep at night knowing you could've saved one of us and didn't would you ;)


    Chris here is a preview of a one of my floats. These were images of my float that was '' bitten'' a few years ago at the East End Quarry in a month with a ''R'' in the spelling. I will post the complete story when I get a few more pounds of meat in the frig. I have hid it from my young son for 9 years as I don't want him having bad dreams about his dad. I will say no shark has ever hurt me other then a sore rib from a hard bump from a pissed Grey Reef a wouldn't share a fish with .I have some chewed fin tips from dives in French Poly and like Mike I have dove with a massive Tiger, fat bulls, a few Mako's and the lord of the sea .... the majestic and beautiful Carcharodon carcharians. Here is a tip for others swimming or diving in any sea ......


    When one gets the shark demons swimming in your mind and the hair on the back of your neck stands up, even if you have not seen a threat, swim to the boat or shore and try another spot. If a diver is not relaxed and acting like a fellow ocean predator he is acting like a bait and not having fun. I get spooked a few times a year at Johnson Rock, the seal haul out at the East end of Cat and the space between the outside can at the rock quarry. This feeling go's away as soon as I see a big YT or WSB. The two times I have been within 10' of the big sharks I sensed their presence and felt...'' I going back to the boat'' . Seconds later.... they were there. After thousand of hours in the sea your senses know what your eyes don't see... just before the light goes on. White sharks swim by and through every dive spot on Cat but the good news is, of the many face to face encounters I have had my clan share with me, no diver
    has been bitten at Catalina or San Clemente island. ( knocking on what looks like wood here from
    Starbucks).^^^^;);)


    After thirty trips diving French Poly, and other South Seas waters along with thousands of hrs in our
    off shore waters, non divers have asked me: '' Aren't you worried about the sharks?
    Here is what i tell them.... '' When you jump in the Ford to go to the store do you worry about every car coming at you at 50 mph and only separated by '' the safety'' of two stripes of yellow paint? Is the car heading for you driven by a drunk, a distracted guy with a Blackberry, or a 16 year old driver casting a quick glance at the hot girl next to him. They usually say they they would feel far safer in a car, and like me have had many safe trips to the store as a basis for their belief. I tell them that is why I feel much safer in the water.... it is my home and Mother Ocean's fish's have never scared my flesh.
    Not the same record for cars driven by the clueless and the deadly.


    Cheers, Don

  • white sharks

    Quote from chris oak

    Come on Don, you can't keep us hanging like that! Plus you might be saving a life because we'll know how to avoid problems. You wouldn't want to go to sleep at night knowing you could've saved one of us and didn't would you ;)


    When the water temp hits 54 degrees at the surface this year I come clean . I would never hold something back that could save a life. I promise 3 personal GWS stories and a extra bonus story from
    the East end Quarry with a few pictures. I dive alone allot at night some times a long kick of LB in piss green cold water....I'm getting soft mate and low on testosterone, old stories scare me at my age. :@:@


    Now guys driving around on the weed at night in Cali...That's F'n SPOOKY.:@:@^^


    Cheers, Don

  • Coming clean.

    Quote from Dan

    It's OK Rick, we all piss in our wetsuits.


    Screw that....:nono: I have a 12'''' Convenience zipper '' made from a dry suit, but if I dive off the beach at night in cold water I ''keep the heat''. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Cheers, Don

  • Band rubber speed?

    Bar code reader and a black indexed line to pull.but pool tests can be very dangerous. I have seen a 6' 3/8
    shaft from a 54'' gun with 5 bands put a shaft 3'' through a 4x6 timber and a exterior wall @ a friends dive shop pool. I was behind the line of fire filming the target when I heard a loud noise underwater.
    Thank god no one was walking on the sidewalk in front of the dive shop The only thing the stopped the shaft was the last two of the 6 tabs.


    I look at my personal guns just as tools of my sport matched to the size of the game I try to get within 20 feet Max and much less if I am skilled enough in the water dance. I see myself as a fly fisherman with a breath hold and no bait.;) Don't get me wrong I used to love the long shot and the lucky one as well from time to time.


    I am a sinner when it comes to very dangerous gun tests, the mishaps have been many over the years when I did stupid shite in and out of the water. Thank god the worst was ten stitch's on my best friends hand.
    Sorry for the side track Tin.


    Cheers, Don

  • Ufc 121

    I've been away on a business project and I missed the fight completely. Any one have any fresh links to the Brock fight ? I glade he got beat. the GF is pissed ....she lost 20 bucks to me on the fight.^^


    Cheers, Don