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I really like a plain ceviche mixed with salsa/pico de gallo eaten on tortilla chips.

Salsa:
onions
tomatoes
cilantro
lime
lemon
garlic
any hot pepper
vinegar
salt
pepper
any other vegetables you like - cucumber, celery etc

I usually just use tomato, cilantro, onion, and garlic.

Ceviche Juice: Enough to cover fish
fish, scallops, octopus, cuttlefish, shrimp or all combined.
lemon
lime
salt
pepper
garlic

Let ceviche cure overnight in a bowl, and salsa sit overnight as well. Make more salsa than needed because usually half of it never makes it overnight.

Drain ceviche juice, also called leche del tigre (milk of the tiger), I like to drink it.

Mix fish into salsa

Good post. I wore neoprene socks for the first time last dive. They allow the pocket to fit perfect on me with no lag whatsoever. As expected they gave me cramps and when I took it of I realized how much waste not having a good fit is. So much waste, guessing 20-40%, that I'm determined to find a way to make the socks work for me.

For the short period of time I did freedive pool training I found I could swim longer distances on FRC than on a full breath or packing. To me doing FRC would not trigger the urge to breathe so I could swim until I lost conciousness, but I never did.

When in 30 ft or so and see a big fish I will exhale enough for my momentum to sink me without finning.

Quote from Dan

I've never used a powerful midhandle speargun. My question is, if you're swinging the rear with your other hand isn't the gun more pivoting around the handle axis than actually completely swinging through the water? In this case isn't the wrist at some point no longer aligned behind the handle? Can't you hurt your wrist shooting like that?

No, no, and yes if hand isn't aligned.

You're thinking about the swing wrong, gun and arm are always aligned throughout the swing. The rear section acts as a lever much like you're palm swelled handle acts like a small lever.

Not much to cobia, once you see them they are pretty much yours. You can haul ass up to them and they will only come to you faster.

Awesome report, keep them coming.

Nice story and awesome fish.

Quote from Toledo970

Also, we never truly use 100% of the oxygen available to us in air. air is 20% oxygen of which we exhale 14-16%.

21% O2 of only which 13% makes it to your alveoli of which only 8% max can be used in a perfect lung giving you your %14-16 expiration when breathing. Due to various reasons. Apnea you are holding that 21% and pressure exchanges are depleting it.

Blood has a min of %5 O2 coming in, you work on that 21% reserve with your oxygen consumption rate until it gets close to %5 then your system isn't receiving anymore O2 or working at all for that matter.

Your body uses 1/4 of the available O2 every minute resting, we're pretty relaxed but exerting ourselves on the way down. The air in the mask is put there pretty early in the dive, plus original volume had 21% already in it, so it's close to 21%.

How much air?

Ideal Gas Law --> Pressure*Volume=constant

2 mask fulls at 33fsw
3 masks at 66fsw
4 masks at 99fsw
5 masks at 132fsw

Which is why a low volume mask is good for the way down, but not so good on the way up if you are going depend on that air.

I don't agree with any of that, cooking can be one of the most complicated things and each part has it's reasons, we have been doing it for thousands of years and still you'd think it would be more clear.

Only way is you'd have to try both methods and serve to an unbiased person.

Perhaps we should ask the chef, I'm sure he doesn't just boil stuff then put sauce on it.

Some people like the cooking side of it, putting in time to make something good, and satisfaction from seeing people eat every last bite of it.

I'll smoke a fish 2-3 hours checking it every couple minutes to make sure the temp. and smoke is right to make some good fish dip, there is no other way to make it that good.

I know you look at these things as an "in to out" ratio, but that's not all there is to it....

Why spearfish for 8 hours for a couple fish and spend more time cleaning them, when you can go buy some fresh fillets for a whole lot less ?

Quote from LunkerBuster

what if you gaff a snook to land it? and have a speargun on board?

what if the vessel is a kayak?

You may only have rods on board if fishing for snook. Spearguns, gaffs, nets, etc. are prohibited. In addition only 1 cast net is allowed and it must be stored off the deck.

Pins are for reinforcement.

Its a poseidonsub trigger no longer made by poseidonsub.The pins keep the sideplates on.

Quote from Dan≈

Looks to me like it could be a little tricky for your finger to find the trigger fast with such a small space between the trigger and the guard if you're wearing gloves. Why don't you make some more space by anchoring the guard further? Maybe I'm wrong and the reach is so exact that the trigger is right there for you.. Having to insert a second finger into the guard is not a good thing though IMO. The handle is small, I wonder how much leverage it will give you when it's time to track. Use gloves because that thin metal trigger guard will take skin off your fingers eventually because of the recoil.

Not everything is power tools you know.. I'd use files to soften some of the lines on this gun.

I like the angle in the back where the handle and everything is. This gun looks like it was built by an engineer.

That's what testing is for.

Quote from LOMartin

Very nice.

Wow I'm surprised that such a thin section (extended wood part for the loading pad) of wood can take the force.

•I really like the look of the euro type butt pad on a wood gun,
just seems a little scary with how thin it is.

What band(s) are you using?

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Teak fails at 7,000 psi, that thin section will only ever see 240psi max, meaning you can load 30 bands at once before failing the thin section.

Harry is giving me some Rob Allen bands.

Guns with muzzle flip need long overhang to counteract the effects of it. This slows down the shaft alot, not only due to ~20% larger mass but the energy absorbed by the muzzle rising and sending the shaft into a vibratory flight.

The wings should take care of the rise so having a long shaft only slows down the spear.

It's same length

Changed:

Real Teak
Longer wings
Shorter shaft
Loop bands
Variable height, almost like a hybrid
Angled handle

The pin came out great, I used a long screw of the correct thickness and drilled a hole so the head of the screw sits flush. Way better than the hex screw I had to drill out of the stock.

The purpose of that shape is to remind me to have a firmer grip on the piece when it's in the router.

Pics can be deceiving with no visual scale.

Finished my replacement gun,"The Phoenix", and put to rest "sweet dreams". Now lets see how it shoots.

117cm band stretch
139 cm 9/32in shaft
Poseidonsub trigger mech with auto reset
Maorisub Dentex reel w/ 1.2mm line

Found this mono wheel at bass pro shops made for mono leaders. It was $1.99, 6.5 inches diameter.

Has holes at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock with slits that allow the shark fins to go through and a tight squeeze if used on the flopper side. I have 15ft of line in it but it can easily hold 2 wraps.