Posts by Don Paul

  • Miami man dies spearfishing

    Quote from black1

    R.I.P.


    Don is right, watch your dive buddy for no less than 30 seconds after dives, I know most will say "yeah right" and that it is simply impossible to always watch your buddy and sometimes it can be frustrating based upon conditions I know, but, it can mean the difference between life and death. Spearo's are diving way to frequently from swb's and it can be stopped if we take a little time to buddy check more often.


    I'm sorry to say that I do not practice what I preach as I dive alone allot, it is the nature of my blue water diving sorry to say. I have never lost a fellow diver on my watch but have saved a few.


    I look forward to finding some one to dive with some day to help me watch my 6 on cliff craws and wrapped deep fish.


    Cheers, Don

  • Speardiver carbon fins

    Quick up date... I'm training for a meet this week so posts will be short.
    Last week I put in close to 2 miles of open ocean swimming up hill against a mild current and found the
    Pursuit Carbon 90s (med) to perform very well on surface swimming and dives to 40' ( local beach water green/red tide poor vis) . I found very good power with very little effort compared to my old stiff board like
    fins. I will be diving this fin only in a up coming Blue Water Meet, Full report to follow.
    Cheers, Don

  • Greetings

    Welcome Arion, Greece has many amazing speros, I believe you will find this forum to have great
    guys and ladies that are willing to share tech and stories in a friendly manor.
    Cheers, Don Paul

  • Miami man dies spearfishing

    RIP Brother, maybe some of you guys know him. Please stay close to your buddy's for at least a min
    and watch their eyes after long dives. :(


    Miami man dies while spear fishing


    A 24 year old Miami man died today while spear fishing with friends, off shore of Bahia Honda State Park.


    The man, whose name is not being released pending notification of his family, was on a private vessel with two friends – a male and a female also from Miami - about five miles off shore this morning. He and the male friend were free diving and spear fishing.


    His friend said they both shot a grouper and were trying to get it into the boat. He said they both had to repeatedly dive down to the bottom to try to get the fish out of some rocks. He said he saw his friend surface and he looked fine. The next thing he knew, he looked for him and couldn’t find him. He found him on the bottom.


    They pulled the victim into the boat and began CPR, calling 911 for help and began heading in to shore. Paramedics from Monroe County Fire Rescue and Deputies Spenser Bryan and Dave Chavka met the boat at Bahia Honda State Park. The victim was transported to Fishermen’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead.


    An autopsy will be done to determine the cause of his death.
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  • Introduction SoCal

    Great to see you here Zack, when I get back from the Blue Water Meet lets get in a beach dive, you can try out the
    Pursuit Carbon 90s I'm buying from Dan. I put a mile of open on ocean them the other day in Laguna, I really like them
    a lot. I will post up a full report after the Blue Water Meet this weekend. Great to hear you training with Carla,
    the girl has some deep diving skills.
    Cheers, Don

  • Freedive Safety Vest

    Quote from Dan

    Don, do you know how long it takes to repack the vest once it deploys? Is it fairly easy?


    Dan I do not, but I will ask him Wed when I have a meeting. I can say if I had a kid freediving I would buy this before I helped him buy a first car.
    Cheers, Don

  • the required intro

    Quote from O2 deprived

    I'd like to start a little training group in the Newport/Costa Mesa area. Let me know if you want to meet up some time and do some fin work. The only problem with the pool is there is nothing on the bottom to look at except old band aids and gum :@ I did find a diamond earring once, though.



    :diver1: Carla


    I see beautiful images all the time as sun rays dance on the bottom while I'm holding my breath.
    I don't have a big pool to use anymore:( so yes I would love to have someone else to train with.
    That big golden in my avatar keeps trying to drown me.^^
    Send me a PM I'll give you my mobile.
    Latter... out to hit the bike trail.
    Cheers, Don

  • the required intro

    Welcome O2 deprived :thumbup:
    These guy have treated me like a brother, It nice to have a extended family that love's Mother Ocean as much as I do.


    Do you know if Water Works allows fins in the pool ?
    I ended up going to Laguna yesterday for a long gun-less up hill swim to try out some new carbon fins.
    Cheers, Don

  • Minimum age to join Forum

    Quote from Dan

    Actually I've never considered the age question before. It'd be helpful if a youngster would state their age when joining, this way we'd know to treat him with more consideration due to his age. But no, no minimum age that I can think of right now.


    Thanks Dan,

  • Minimum age to join Forum

    I know Dan has it posted here some place, but... what is the Min age for a kid to be a member here ?
    I know of a local diver that has a interest is Dan's Fins.
    Thanks in advance.
    Cheers, Don

  • Bands in my shooting line $%%%$@@@#

    http://vimeo.com/11009050
    Stop the frame @00.25 and 00.51 you can see one band form a bow tie shape and the line loop is very close.
    In 00.51 the two bands pointing are not a issue but look at the shape of the lower band, the wish bone has stalled behind the muzzle causing the band to form a bow tie shape. I the image the line clears but if the fish is close and the timing is spot on you can have a hitched power band by the shooting line.
    I used to see it more often when guys were shooting Jay R. old 500% Kevlar instead of stiff mono.
    cheers, Don