Posts by Don Paul

  • New Beuchat glider shafts

    Quote from hank

    And you're part French? <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">:thumbup:


    Canadian French ;)


    Merci

  • New Beuchat glider shafts

    I tried to order one today but my local dive shop does not carry Beuchat . Back to the drawing board tomorrow


    Cheers, Don.


    Holly shite I'm buzzed (whiskey) took me 3 times to spell Beuchat.

  • New Beuchat glider shafts

    Quote from Akira dkt

    Not sure, but i have to say. If your muzzle band and line wrapping setup isn't perfectly designed, those fins would catch, and probably slice some line or rubber.


    Jack had that gun for 20 plus years, and it killed more than a few really large tuna, his gun designs were a long process of trial and error.


    Cheers, Don

  • Blackout while Spearfishing Video

    ^^^^ This.


    Maybe because I'm old too, and never waited for a swimming partner to swim the 1/2 mile stretch across the lake I grew up on, to get to the Girl Scout Camp....Alone:thumbup:


    I dove just about every day when I lived in Laguna Beach Ca, before I was a dad. I'd call one or two friends, but 75% of the time it was just me and Mother Ocean for 30 years in local waters, same applies today, except for boat trips. Other times I dove alone because of greed, or risk of blowing up a small local spot when someone tells just one friend.:rolleyes: Yes, I have blacked out alone, and was able (thank god) to unlatch my belt and drop my gun before waking up on the surface 25 years ago ....I'm no poster child for safe diving, and that was greed again for a big fish and a flecken trophy.


    Now back to the vid of Ben. With all due respect to him, as he is not here to comment:
    Long before I spent money on a real nice gun, GoPro, computer, or Freediving class, I would learn to be a skindiver, and work on the basics. Fluidity in the water, a decent surface dive, energy conservation, relaxation, Fin swimming. Sorry but that vid is a poster child ad for how not to dive. (Buddy diver was a rockstar)


    Cheers, Don

  • Blackout while Spearfishing Video

    I use a watch to know when it's time to go back to the boat for lunch.


    Me... after looking at my watch:


    Holly shite! That's a big flecking shark in my face! ......where did he come from?:@


    Holly shite! Is that my friends gun falling out of his unconscious hand?


    Holly shite! That's the biggest tuna tail swimming away I've ever seen.


    Holly shite! The watch shows 107 feet.....I was feeling fine, but now I'm really flecken stressed.


    Holly shite! No... forget what my body says, I'm fine, I've done 2min 30 before....there's the surface shimmering......fade to black.


    That said, when I get me a fancy dive computer, I will wear it to the pub...where I'm the deepest diver ...see.


    Cheers, Don

  • Best reel line to spear knot

    If the shaft tail is debured and polished, I don't see any issues other than the hydrodynamic drag on the knot side of the shaft, and possibly steering it on long shots. I usually have the loop tuck the swedge behind the shaft tail on flight. I just flashed back to my early days in Baha and tying a bowline to my 3/8 grouper shafts using 300# blue tuna cord. I never untied with wet gloves, just cut it off when needed.


    Cheers, Don

  • Blackout while Spearfishing Video

    I just looked at it again... right after the shot @ 1:19 he starts bleeding off a lot of bubbles even though he is not acceding, and keeps bubbling all the way till he blacks out. I know the pressure in the mask (equalized) will bleed off on the way to the surface, but that's a lot of air he's dumping. Not that it matters, I inhale through my nose any extra volume so I don't piss off the fish. I don't know Ben, or if that structure brought on anxiety during the dive? The fining from depth looks rapid. That's the dive buddy I want if I fleck up.


    Glad he is OK.


    Cheers, Don