a gorgonian(sea fan) alot of you florida guys are probably used to seeing, and if your lucky seeing a hogfish down in it.. this requires a lot of food becasue it is not solely photosynthetic like a lot of the corals are
Yeah I know it's not solely photosynthetic, it feeds mainly on lip and cheek tissue as materializes out of nowhere to sting while you're shoulder deep in a hole reaching after a pesky bug.
I don't like the hole by the ears thing. You'll get water shooting in and sloshing around. Just let some water in by lifting the hood around your mask.
A hood definately helps many reports say as muuch as %50 of heat escapes trough your head.
When I began freediving I would get frequent nosebleeds. I guess the weakest capillaries burst and get reinforced when they heal.
If your sinuses hurt when you descend try no to push it. You will reach a point where the pressure is greater than the blockage and something will give and hurt like a bitch.
Congrats on your dream gun hau. Now go kill somefish!!
That is awesome!!!
I looked up "RIB decal plate" and got some hits on plates you glue to your hull that the decal adheres to.
Boating Regulations
The following is a summary of Florida's boating laws, found in Ch. 327 and Ch. 328, Florida Statutes. This information is included in all certified boating safety courses taught in Florida.
Note: This information is accurate as of January 2007 and is subject to change in May of each year. Please call the FWC's Boating Safety Section at 850-488-5600 for annual updates to this information or questions regarding boating safety course requirements.
All vessels, with the exception of non-motor-powered vessels less than 16 feet in length, non-motor-powered canoes, kayaks, racing shells, or rowing sculls, regardless of length, must be registered through your local Tax Collector's Office.
Letters must be separated from the numbers by a hyphen or space equal to letter width.
The Certificate of Registration must be on board and available for inspection by an enforcement officer whenever the vessel if operated.
Vessels must be registered and numbered within 30 days of purchase.
Registration numbers must be displayed on the forward half of the vessel on both sides above the waterline.
The numbers must be bold block letters at least 3" high in a color contrasting to the hull.
The vessel registration decal must be renewed annually and is to be displayed within 6 inches of, either before or after, the registration numbers on the port (left) side.
Documented vessels without a state registration in full force and effect must also obtain a Florida registration and display the validation decal on the port side of the vessel when using Florida waters.
Yes there are regs on MYFWC.com regarding letter spacing and tag placement. I'll look it up.
Awesome video, cool to see how they were regarded by others almost like astronauts.
Seems it's very short. What are you using it for?
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These are the big ones for elephant feet or thick booties.
They had Matrix blades in them and are cracked in the edges possibly due to the straight blades as shown in pics. I'll glue them if you like. Also missing a clip.
I believe shallow depths are more dangerous.
At deep depths you go down and come up quick. On shallow depths you go down and wait on the bottom. You can get too comfortable and confident after a while. You will never realize you are low on air and that's when it happens.
are tripletail and tilapia the same fish, that is huge information to me hahaha
nice catch guys...way to persevere and make the best
Don't think so. Harry is in the restaurant business so I call it tilapia to kid around.
Yeah I wanted to get a bucket to catch the first one but it was too much trouble. Harry wouldn't spear them because they were not a challenge. I told him to me anything bigger than average is a prize.
Conditions sucked when we arrived at the first wreck which was furthest out into the ocean. We were greeted by barely legal AJ and spade fish. Vis was 40ft of clear blue water followed by 60 feet of cold murk. We tried to make the best of it and would dive into the murk and hide in it while looking up for fish. Harry was able to land the King. We came to the conclusion that if it was bad way out here it must be terrible everywhere else.
So we went about 10 miles further and found a huge weed filed. Thinking there would be dolphin we circled it and saw bunch of Tripletail. Seeing as it will be the only thing we can spear I jumped in and headed for the field. There were tons of triple tail. The first one came up to me, I had a camo suit I borrowed from Dan, and decided to hang out under me thinking I was seaweed. I popped him in the head and proceeded to swim toward the boat until he put up quite a fight.
I went back in and spent 5 minutes looking everywhere with Harry. Didn't see anything under the weeds and was going to leave until I looked behind me. There were about 6 huge tripletail with a bunch of smaller ones following me around like dogs. I hit the biggest one and stoned it. Harry dove and saw a bull coming up so he charged it and scared it away. Thanks Harry. He told me and 2 seconds later I was in the boat. We headed back in around 11am and marked some nice reefs we will explore on the next trip.
Catch
11.5lb Tripletail
17.3 lbs Tripletail
11lb King
Headed out with Harry to find awful vis conditions on the reefs and wrecks. We decided to head way out to see if we can find better conditions. Didn't find much better but at least we didn't come home empty handed.
Ran into these Giant Tilapia on a huge weed field, in federal waters, they take the record away from Hogfish and Red Grouper for dumbest fish.
Here is the little one at 11.5 lbs.
Nice video and really nice fish.
Were you warm and cozy?
Not really warm but not shivering, thank god I had your 5 mil and not my old as 3.
Went today to get the last of the grouper but vis was undiveable.
I saw a pretty mellow huge turtle on monday north of the inlet he had some healed up shell damage or growth on the rear left. He was walking around on the bottom like a dog. Maybe it was the same one.
