Great video. Liked the time lapse shots of the sky and fire.
Posts by ladvr
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My spots are on the other end of the spectrum. 20 feet vis is epic.
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Looks like a furbag that just met the taxman in the kelps. I call it "kelp carnage".:@
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Climate Prediction Center: ENSO Diagnostic Discussion
Its been very dry in Los Angeles for a few years now. Looks like we could get a break. Local water temps are already very warm. Upper 50's to low 60's all winter long.
[url=http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-el-nino-watch-alert-california-rain-20140306,0,2778584.story#axzz2vPwOF5JU]El Nino watch issued; could portend rain for dry California - latimes.com[/url]
QuoteDisplay MoreThe odds are increasing that El Niño, the powerful climate phenomenon that alters precipitation patterns across the globe, will develop in the Pacific Ocean this year, U.S. government forecasters say.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center activated its alert system on Thursday to issue an El Niño watch.
The alert means that conditions in the eastern tropical Pacific are favorable enough that El Niño has a more than a 50% chance of forming by the summer or fall.
Though it’s too early to predict with much confidence, if El Niño re-emerges it could produce wetter weather in the southern United States next winter, bring more rain to California, temper the Atlantic hurricane season and push up global temperatures in 2015, experts say.
The El Niño cycle begins every two to seven years when weak trade winds in the Pacific allow warmer water to build up along the west coast of South America.
El Niño conditions often result in higher rainfall in California, but not always. Typically, they cause the jet stream to dip south over North America, directing storms to the California coast and across the southern U.S. La Niña, the cycle's cool-water counterpart, is associated with drier weather in those regions.
If El Niño returns this year it would be the first since 2009-10, a moderate episode that was followed by the next season by La Niña. For the past two years the eastern tropical Pacific has remained in neither a cool nor warm state some experts have referred to as "La Nada."
Thursday’s forecast by the Center for Climate Prediction and International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, gave a 52% probability of El Niño developing by the fall, compared with a 41% chance of conditions remaining neutral.
Mike Halpert, acting director of the Climate Prediction Center, said scientists have observed a warming of sub-surface waters that has been “fairly impressive.”
“We're seeing a fair amount of evolution towards El Niño below the surface and we're getting some confirmation from a number of our computer models,” he said. “It looks pretty good at this point.”
Thursday's El Niño watch follows several months of forecasts based on observations from satellites, buoys and floats and computer models that have shown increasing signs El Niño could return later this year.
Halpert cautioned that El Niño forecasts before spring are notoriously unreliable because of volatile ocean and atmospheric conditions. Predictions made this early in past years, he said, have sometimes failed to play out.
The last major El Niño, an unusually powerful episode in 1997-98, brought rainfall more than 200% above normal to Southern California. Powerful storms hit the coast, triggering destructive landslides and floods.
With California still in a drought, the state might be more open to the risks posed by El Niño if it meant an influx of needed rain, Halpert said.
“For the folks in California, this might be a case where they would welcome that,” he said. “You might take a bit of the bad to refill your reservoirs.”
[url=http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-el-nino-watch-alert-california-rain-20140306,0,2778584.story#ixzz2vPyfRAxC]El Nino watch issued; could portend rain for dry California - latimes.com[/url]
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It must cost a lot of $$$ to get into the event and rub elbows with spearfishings elite?
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RIP
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What setup are other divers in your area using?
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The fear is caused by your ego and Id working in conflict with one another to keep you alive. You should be more concerned when this mechanism is no longer working. Fear is good.
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A man who disappeared near Edithburgh on Yorke Peninsula is believed to have been taken by a shark -- the 28 year old spear fisherman's horrified friends witnessing the attack.
SHARK ATTACK 08/02/14 - YouTube
RIP...
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Self sufficient..
QuoteFriend Jim Robins downplayed the event at the time. "He was walking so it couldn't have been that bad," he said.
However, his friends did do him a favour - taking him to the tavern in Colac Bay before the hospital.
The pub at Colac Bay served him a beer alongside a few bandages to stop his leg from dripping blood on the carpet.
Invercargill shark attack doctor stitches own leg | Stuff.co.nz
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Thanks for the Link. That diver is the guy I had looking for on a different video. Saw it a long time ago and lost the link
Deeper Perspectives Episode 16- Shaft Flex
Deeper Perspectives Episode 16- Shaft Flex - YouTube
From a technical perspective, he did a Good Job with his methods, calculations, and estimates. His numbers match up with a lot of others out there.
Shaft Flex is a whole different area of discussion. All of it is pretty interesting stuff.
I watched a few of his videos. Good stuff.
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go go china spearfishing products. dime a dozen with majority of the industry. Sad
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Maybe look into a universal housing with the LANC controls? Its likely you will be able to upgrade cameras as new products are launched. Wetpixel is a good resource for u/w photography.
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Don,
You should give the open vs closed track discussion its own thread. Lots of good info. -
My open track guns shoot a wider variety of shafts. I sold my ET's because they only worked well with 5/16th dia.. I do think they required less fine tuning with band power then the open track.
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The cost of alot of riffe stuff imho is inflated to the point that its almost insulting. Some other stuff is worth it but always on the verge of being prohibitive.
Not many alternatives to their blue water bungee. Except the botha style bungee, and DIY.3 of those floats and all riffe gear would set me back an obscene amount, I would like to someday have the requisite equipment to confidently take a shot at a monster, hence all the questions.
Any input welcomeDon't confuse "cost " with the price you pay for an item. Cost can be the difference between what you pay for an item and what you sell it for. I've bought many Riffe guns second hand and sold them for what I paid for them after filling my cooler. Same with torpedo floats. Developing your own gear has the additional cost of failures and time . They may or may not have any residual value.
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Got chased out of the water this morning by an absolutely beautiful GWS. Just a little to big for my comfort level but the coloring was spectacular. Glad I was on a long board. Apparently there is a symposium next week with multiple agencies to address the shark situation. Not sure if its open to the public. Also some semi permanent warning signage going up after it gets legal clearance.
