Posts by seaweed

  • Deep Diving Mentor

    Great thread, nice to see how things were in a simpler time. I often find myself wondering what it would be like diving in miami when spearfishing was just starting out.

  • Palm beach kite surfer killed by Shark

    Wow poor guy RIP. I read the sharks could've been juvenile great whites but they were probably bulls.


    Last time I went to Stuart I was harassed by one bull for minutes, I had no fish, until the boat came and later in the day another bull came and took a grouper as I was pulling it up.

  • Boat trailer bow guides / posts question

    They really help alot if there is a breeze on a light boat.


    It really depends what the trailer looks like underneath. If the trailer wood hugs the boat well then it will guide itself up.


    Best to try it a couple times and determine if the poles are needed.

  • Tow BoatUS

    Quote from Dan


    3. The membership is for the person not only the boat. So if I'm on someone else boat I can get service without playing games/tipping. I'm not sure if Seatow offers this but I was told that at least they didn't used to.


    Very very very important to remember this. It's how they get you. Your coverage only applies if the boat owner is not onboard. Otherwise they say it is his responsibility and your coverage is no good.


    So if they ever ask say he let you borrow the boat for the day.

  • Marlin Roller Gun

    Quote from Dan

    How do you figure out band stretch ratio on such a gun?


    You have 2 16mm bands in parallel and those are in series with the 20 mm.


    I would suspect you'd have to solve some sort of differential equation of motion. i.e. be a physicist or trial and error.

  • hands free equalizing

    I've done it by cheating. If you let the mask squeeze you a bit as you descend just right it blocks your nose up to a certain amount of pressure. After that air will just start coming out of your nose. If the "leaking" pressure is greater than the equalization pressure it will equalize you as you let air into your mask.


    As for truly hands free I have read stuff and still have no idea where to begin.


    I don't know if it is coincidence or not but all 2 hands free equalizers I know can dive really deep/ have long breath holds.

  • Wild Recon?

    I really like "Killer Instincts" with Rob Bredl. It's an old show I doubt they show it anymore. Truly bad ass.


    From Australia he has never worn shoes in his life and he's like 60 years old. Killing wildlife is prohibited in Australia but since he has aboriginal status he is allowed to and often walks around collecting food and participating in native hunts. Then he shows how to cook them and stuff.


    It's cool to see him doing a show and picking up lobster sized crayfish from a stream, catching a fish, getting a kangaroo, picking up an ostrich egg or turtle etc then cooking it with his aborigine friends.


    He talks about wildlife and survival. His dad was bit by a snake in the outback and died right in front of him and he still collects snakes.


    I like one show where he is talking about survival and catches a fish. He guts it and throws away the fish saying that the flesh wont sustain you or something like that since it lacks in vitamins or something like that.


    He gets the stomach, stuffs the heart, liver, etc into it and makes basically like a little fish sausage and cooks it.

  • Wet and Wild

    Wild stuff.


    Watch for them in Ft. Lauderdale LB, I've been diving and seen up to 3 at the same time.


    This is a pic Gerald took of one on a trip.


  • Cubano Dinner

    Quote from Dan


    Plantanos Maduros - Green plantains quashed and fried.


    Romeo & Juliet - the real stuff <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Come on Dan you're slipping.


    Plantanos Maduros - Ripe plantains cut and fried.




  • Broward Beach Conditions

    It could be the spawn but the grouper I saw were alone whereas in st lucie they where in schools.


    Today is the first day I noticed something funny. As I looked at my GPS wondering where to go to get fish all the numbers were geared towards mainly one species, the grouper. All my numbers are rocky reefs shallow and deep where I hoped to find the prize fish, a grouper. Now that it's closed I guess we have to find some mutton spots.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Nice seeing you on the water again hau. Hau showed us his rob allen which was the high point of the day for us. We saw no fish except about more nice grouper than I have ever seen in Ft Lauderdale. Today would've been an awesome day for Ft. Lauderdale if grouper wasn't closed.

  • Anchor line length?

    Here the anchor usually catches on a rock. The more rope the better once you own a boat you'll see there a 100 different things going through your mind while you dive.


    One of them will be if that noise you hear is the anchor clanking against a rock or dragging on the bottom.


    When I dive a reef I do not set the anchor for the reef depth, I set it for the sand depth. So if it ever comes out of the reef it will drag or hopefully catch on the sand and not just float away. Usually I try to do a 2:1 ratio or in good conditions until the anchor holds hard in something plus about 20ft more.