Carefull about landing in the park with a gun. If a ranger sees you he will definately give you a ticket/warning depending on how he feels. We lucked out one day because he didnt have enough warnings.
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I tried diving Dania with bad conditions once, shortest beach dive I ever made. The breaking waves will take you further back than you can ever swim forwards.
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Thank you very much Ivan but I was able to find it on one of their sites.
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What Mako spearguns sells are called salmon trolling flashers also called dodger flashers or the like. You can find used sets on ebay for cheap but makos price is good if you are buying new ones.
The tape is called holoform or lure tape and basspro shops has three 2"x6" pieces for $1.99. I have used this tape on railguns and it sticks good.
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"HardCore"
"Sama Sniper"
"Pargo Punisher"
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They had those at the blue wild expo. Reminds me of reeboks with a fin in them.
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My personal opinion is that the fact that you like the gun will make you good with it unless there is something wrong with the gun. I used a Euro 120 for a couple of months and it was good. In fact I landed 2 of my personal bests with it.
If you like it buy it, most guns out there are good.
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Looks good. Make sure the line is braided and not twisted and put a swivel on it. If it is twisted you will get tangles so bad that will take plenty of time to take out.
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The disappearing dinner is something that always happens to me. I have learned to never take my eyes off a nice catch.
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Possibly looking for another freediver to join Harry (greekdiver) and me on a 2 day trip this week in the keys.
Departing wednesday the 11th at night and spearing all day thursday and friday. Depths are 60 fsw and deeper.
Pm me for more info.
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At some point I want to embark on making the cheapest crappiest looking gun that shoots real well.
I tried doing it with a $69 jbl carbine. I removed the pipe and replaced it with a 48" piece of aluminum tube from a mop I cut. Didn't work out to good.
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I had a 3mm Diveskin with nylon on both sides. Harry had a 3mm Diveskin open cell and I think he would get a bit cold as well. My friend had an immersion 5mm open cell and was overheating. Its better to be warm than cold because shivering really affect your oxygen consumption.
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I would go with a 5mm open or closed. I recently freedove 70 degree water and was cold while my friend had a 5 mil open and was overheating.
For the price I would suggest a custom suit from www.diveskin.net it will cost a little under $250 delivered to your door. You supply him with 16 different measurement to make your custom suit and usually arrives in 2 weeks and sometimes even 3 days.
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The version you gave me is translated in spanish.
Also they probably only use single bands in that video.
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A band gun only delivers force to the shaft for 60% of the travel. A pneumatic delivers force %100 of the travel. The force on a band gun goes from a max to to zero while a pneumatic gun goes from a lower max to about a bit less than half of the initial force.
This pneumatic sounds alot like a roller gun. I Assume a band gun has double the initial force but a pneumatic delivers force 100% with the final force being about half of the initial force. My opinion is that the pneumatic will be more powerful by 20%.
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Thats pretty cool. Ever since I could walk I have been falling into pools and lakes. As a child I nearly drowned on more than 5 occasions and I didn't develop a fear of the water. I did learn to swim by age 3 though and I do remember pushing myself to dog paddle across a deep pool without anyone telling me too. Since all I ever did was shallow stuff the need to do a long breath old never occurred to me until I started spearfishing. I would've never thought there was a reef out here in ft lauderdale until I saw it. I used to think it was all sand therefore there was no need to explore any deeper.
I believe by snorkeling in deeper water (20-30 ft) you can induce a child to breath hold without actually telling them to, just out of curiosity they would want to go down and see.