Posts by hank

Welcome.
Everyone in my house speaks Belizean Creole....but me. I try but it's pretty lame . My 5 year old son switches back and forth. He can sound midwest American...or when he talks to his Honduran mother he switches to creole. Doesn't speak Spanish though.

are you talking traveling? or just for on the boat?

Guns are a pain in the ass either way. But for the boat I use industrial strength laundry baskets. We use them for the processing plant here.
The guns don't fit though.

Welcome. Lots of good people here who are willing to share knowledge.

I don't think color makes a lot of difference. Maybe on that split second you gain before a snapper sees you hiding behind a coral head....but I have to say that Speardiver suits are excellent quality.

I bought an Omer 3mm, open cell and a Speardiver just a couple months apart. My son Jake wears the top of that all year. The pants for 8 months. Going on three years now.... and it is only showing a little fraying around the hood edge. The Omer, which has about 20% the water time of the Speardiver, is ripped inside and the hood is about to fall off.

I have another Speardiver that my other son Tino wears. Going on two years. No wear at all.

I have had two Makos. One piece. They wore out very quickly.

I think Yazbeck is pretty close to Speardiver in quality but I have to give the comfort edge to Speardiver. I have a 3 mm that I haven't used but twice but it's my winter suit for the coming years and I'm happily passing my Yazbeck to Tino, who grew out of his Speardiver. Mo inherited that one.

Been using a Spetton 1.5 for warm season but will get a Speardiver for next year. The Spetton is nice but has worn out faster than Jake's Speardiver.

So if you haven't followed all this.... ...no sh1t....get a Speardiver. Best I've seen or used.

Jake (with the cobia) in one of the early Ninja all black Speardiver suits.

Very nice. Thanks for posting that.

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Didnt know people ate those. How do they taste?

I haven't tasted one. Doc's Taiwanese friends love them. He gets them for them.

Yep. Green ones that are common here.

Yep. Big holiday in Belize. The Battle of St George's Caye. So we took off work and had a great time.
Doc, Mo, Jake and I. Doc got this eel. He has some Taiwanese friend here who consider it a delicacy. i'd be afraid to shoot it. Doc said it was chewing on the shaft. haha.
I got three muttons and two cuberas. Jake got the rest. He had to do three 75 foot dives to retrieve a dog snapper. Those things hole up right away if you don't stone them. He ended up cutting his shooting line after a failed attempt to untangle it.

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Man, how'd I miss this? Nice video. Those red snappers were laughing at you. <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"> like the shits knew you couldn't shoot them.

For real. I think Frank can quit his day job. He's good.

Very nice pictures.
The most amazing thing about them is there are no fish around both those habitats. ???? I'd think they'd be covered in fish.

Welcome.

Yep. Had a fun day. "Dukes", Jake Mo and i hit a few spots.

Once again, learned another thing....Jake was pulling the big cubera up. Haven't weighed it yet but looks like 25 lbs or so. I was right above Jake as he was coming up but I was watching the big snappers underneath him. Then I saw he was about 5 feet from the surface but not coming up. He was kicking....but the fish was hit behind he dorsal and was still strong. His reel had jammed and wasn't letting out line.
I just didn't think fast enough....why didn't I immediately drop down and shoot it again. In a few seconds Jake made it to the surface. But looking back I think,,,,"you moron....", I should have reacted faster.
Anyway....another lesson learned. Both Jake and I were really relaxed and diving. He was getting 80 plus feet for 1 min 45 sec. I was hitting 70 for 1 min 20. Beautiful day. Had a school of about 500 permit around us most of the time. We don't shoot them. Dog snapper cubera, a few muttons down deep, 6-8 king fish passed by. a few ceros. spade fish, some black grouper on the bottom. It doesn't get any better.
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Jake....pondering the moment? haha.

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Nice. Cool to see what's in your waters. No ice? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Thanks for posting that.

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Ummmmm seriously who cares? Maybe it's a climate thing (us being tropical) but I have my entire life seen charter operations with literally hundreds of sets of gear and myself personally just freshwater rinse and store without ever thinking about it, and never a whiff of a problem (pun intended)

hah I wish I had a camera yesterday. DuQuesnay's snorkel has a clear mouth piece and 4 inches of clear tubing It's probably as old as many of he posters here. Looks nasty. haha But he's healthy.

Welcome.

Cut open your favorite old black snorkel? Hau and Steve seem to have confirmed the existence of green slime in a clear one. Scrape the inside of the black one and see what's there. Do you have a microscope? Check what's living in both. You may get fungus or bacteria growing in the black one. ...things that don't need light.

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Clear snorkels r nice cause you can tell when the funk starts to grow inside. Hau taught me that

Being somewhat of a country assed biologist, algae culturing shrimp farmer hillbilly....diver.....I would guess that the clearness of the snorkel is the reason for the green funk. A black snorkel will have little to no light penetration and therefore, no chance for photosynthesis....making the green funk. and actually, this would probably apply to white ones too.

Yeah, as the guy usually driving the boat looking for DuQuesnay and the boys, white seems like it would be harder to see in choppy seas with white caps. Which is most times we're out.

Speardiver Stealth. Very comfortable.