You fellows are animals! Those were some frigging serious drops! Out of my league.
riiiiiiight....Mr. 40 foot container full of wahoo..... <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> That dive of Jake going down looks cool. Both Jake and James have really good technique from hours of training in a pool on swim teams.
Nice From 6:20 on….haha.
The "rock". 80 feet. Just outside of there is usually a big school of dog snapper and a few Cubera. That was the first time in five years I never saw the dog snappers there. Weird.
Swimguy, when I click on the video it says, "this video is private". I don't know how to fix that though.
Well organized. I'm not sure I'd want those points sticking up that close to my head in choppy seas though.
How'd you attach the wood to the console?
Welcome.
Nice mutton. How'd you see it in that murky water? They disappear like ghosts when the vis is bad. Good bottom times.
I'm sitting at home with 25 knot winds blowing outside. Naturally the wind is going to die down tomorrow. haha
Welcome.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Those barracuda seemed like they haven't seen divers. It's hard to get that close to them in the water column here. We find the best technique, which works for many fish, is when you see one, dive to the bottom. Their curiosity is their undoing. More times than not, they will come back to check you out.
Are you as good at making surfboards as you are spearguns? That's some decent looking waves in the background. 
You got it all my friend.
Lol so whats you guys' favorite spearfishing video?
I got a some great footage of some black urchins. I'll try and get it up. <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">
Diesel, it appears that they are one of, if not the most common fish on our reefs here also.
As the author states in this article, “If we spent all of our money on parrotfish conservation, we would not save reefs. If only it were so simple!”
It is more complex than that but they are a vital player.
It's not entirely true. A long thin flexible spear with a flopper is slightly more complex than a bullet.
And I've seen guns so overpowered that the shaft comes out oscillating severely which significantly affected it's rate of decrease in velocity.
You can simply set up a grid and do a frame by frame on a video as the shaft leaves to gun to calculate velocity at that point. That's the number we are all looking for. And looking at my video in slow motion, it's very close between my two guns. And that's comparing apples to apples. Same length gun, identical shafts, same band thickness.
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Except the Wong has at least a partially enclosed track? Not sure how much this slows it down.
Eliminating shaft whip or oscillating comes with a price. The overall point seems to be that accuracy comes at the cost of power and vice versa. On the same gun anyway.
What! Dude I have been in Antigua diving reefs with charter companies since 1988, 1986 in many other islands, so stop making a ass of yourself chatting about things you know nothing about breads. As for your observation AGAIN there is a study going on since the 70's here in Antigua that has shown the massive decline in reefs and algae reef browsers....stupppssss. I am not saying these are my observations, these are scientific documented FACTS! I got nuttin to say again on this topic with you anymore, can't beat ignorance.
As to the reef health, don't discount the disappearance of the black sea urchins, Diadema species, in the mid 1980s. They're algae grazers too and it's thought that they clean the reef creating "landing zones" for the pelagic larvae of corals and other urchins that need to "settle out".
It all ties together. No single species controls the big picture.
I'm working with some folks who want us to set up an urchin hatchery project to try and repopulate the reefs here in Belize. We'll see.
man, you Antigua boys are hard on each other…. <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">
Nice video. Damn, was that all in the same day? You're good.
Yeah, as Sparticus, (Jake's hero) said in 300....."we go north"....Jake's House and Condos.....there's untapped fish there.... <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">
Nice. I've been scuba diving in Indo a few times. Amazing waters. Ripping currents.
I remember sitting on the west side of Bali waiting for a ferry to take us to Java. You could see volcano peaks in the distance. The ferry coming in was almost sideways making headway in the current.
And basically, if you looked to the right (north) it was the Pacific Ocean and to the left, the Indian. Unreal place. There is power there. 
It's calm again here today. What happened to your fins? My Speardiver fins....two pairs.....have been abused, kicked round, pushed off the bottom, reset in other pockets. Even JAKE can't break them and when he was little we named him Chief Broken Gun. He broke everything.
Anyway, the wahoo need a break over there. The Fish Gods have spoken..... <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">
Swimguy got a couple dog snappers. He's camera shy. haha
I was going to get a cooler pic this morning but the fish were all in the freezer except the ones we're eating today. Mo got a nice black and a BIG hog too. I got a nice hog, Jake got another nice snapper.
Jake, Mo and the new guy on here, Swimguy and me got out. Went to one of our most reliable dog snapper spots but none. Only a few cubera of which Jake got one.
I got this barracuda while he was lying on the bottom digesting. I've seen them do this pretty often. After they eat, indicated but finding a fish in the gut after i shoot them, they get darker and the black really stands out on them. And they''ll just lie on the bottom,
This Swimguy....he's got a future in spearfishing. A competitive swimmer in high school and college. Great form diving. He says he's a beginner and was comfortably doing 60-70 foot dives. One was 80 for sure.
It was great being in the water after about 5 weeks. I was really relaxed too. jake shot a grouper that got in a hole. I was watching and really relaxed. Went down and tried to wrestle it out. On the way down as I got there i noticed it was a bit harder to get air up in my mouth to equalize. Came up and was 80 feet for 1 min 20 sec. Not bad for an old fart.
Marco, be careful eating fish guts. My ex father in law was just telling me a story about that two weeks ago. He knows his shit too (John E Randall from Hawaii. Google him) and is always warning about Cig. But he said there is another toxin that is deadly in the guts of some fish. He told me this because I too, like to eat sprats, guts and all. He strongly advised against it and told me a story of death.....
