Posts by hank

  • If your dive buddy doesn't surface

    Doc, Jake and I were talking about the recent tragedies.


    It's not a cure all and purists might call bullshit on it, but I'm going to bring two sets of scuba on the boat from now on. Rigged and ready to go.


    If your buddy is down, and you're not sure where if he hasn't surfaced…maybe he's entangled?….at least you can grab the gear, stay down much longer looking, get a reg in his mouth if you find him while bringing him up, hopefully still conscious but if not, it wouldn't hurt to have the reg stuffed in his mouth if he gasps for air on the way up.

  • Fitting wishbone inserts into Speardiver small hole rubber

    That did look easy. Can you do a video inserting dyneema (the nylon wishbone line?) into the 14 mm, small diameter?
    I do it but it ain't pretty. I have to use gloves so I don't gash my hands. But I also use the double wrap half hitch (the "Riffe knot") which is bigger. Maybe I only need a half hitch? but I've had those pop out due to coming untied inside the rubber. Super glue?

  • Why a float line is safer than a reel

    One practice I've tried to adopt on all fish of any size and or depth, is to stay with my buddy. If Jake shot the fish and is pulling up the reel line, I have his gun and am winding it back on the reel so there is no bunch of loose line on the surface. My biggest concern, reel line or float, is a big shark grabbing the fish out of nowhere and bolting for the bottom. It's happened and fortunately nothing was wrapped around any part of me or Jake. But if it had been, there isn't much you can do except try to get your knife fast….and equalise…..fast because you'd be dropping faster than any stone.

  • Nate died spearfishing, Sunday 6/8/2014

    Quote from Andrewk

    the water on sunday had a murk layer over it. After finding the fish I had no idea where to even begin to look for him. we didnt have an active GPS on our boat. only our phones.


    I called 911 with one hand and threw the anchor over with the other and tied off. I provided GPS coordinates to the rescue crews and flagged them down. They got to us so fast.


    I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I have been in the boat with Jake and watched him dive…..the boat drifted faster than I thought and all of a sudden….where is Jake? I yelled his name……I SCREAMED his name. I wouldn't have known where to dive and look….just as you said. Then he surfaced and looked at me like…."what"?. If only it had turned out that way for Nate and you also.


    I've never met almost everyone on Speardiver but I feel a real kinship with many of you. Hang in there Andrew. Nate would probably have told you to get your ass back in the water. It's what we all choose. Surfing is much the same. The draw of the ocean…..it's what makes us brothers.

  • Antigua spearfishing reports

    Holy s**t George. You're good badehhh.


    The only tuna I found on this recent trip to the Philippines was at this guy's house. haha. I didn't shoot the fish but couldn't resist the picture with the gun. That's probably the closest I''ll come to shooting a yellow fin. <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">
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  • Why a float line is safer than a reel

    I agree 100% with you Dan, as far as safety. The only negative issue with two guys diving close together, one up, one down, is the float lines getting tangled. Not an insurmountable problem but a bit of a pain in the ass.

  • Spooled by a wahoo

    On the boat ride home you're thinking, "shit, all I had to do was clip off that old crimp…..but nooooooo….". <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> That's a hard one Marco. I lost a nice king like that but it was a cable shooting line. The crimp slipped….before I knew how to braid.

  • White shark encounter spearfishing Florida

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    Dude said the shark left for 8 minutes and came back. No free diver would have hung around there if, big if, he made it to the surface at all


    Yeah, imagine being on the bottom…..you're just about ready to surface and "WHOOSH"….that thing passed by. Whoooaaaa. Going up looking in all directions….your head on a swivel and hoping you're only three feet from your boat when you reach. :@

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    I've seen schools of muttons of maybe 200. Not like the thousands of cuberas we see here in Belize at Gladden Spit. (this is the reason the whale sharks come. To eat the eggs as they spawn)


    And yes, the average size is 8-10 lbs or so but there are some huge ones of 20 lbs or more.


    We also get schools of dog snapper up to 200 fish.


    We have another small species here that they call silk snapper. It has a spot like the mutton but is more silver and thinner. I can't find a pic of it on Google but Doc and DuQuesnay tell me it's not small muttons. ??


    But yeah, the dogs, muttons and cuberas are not nearly as wary when they're in spawning mode. At least for one or two fish. After they see you kill a few they sober up. Until the next full moon……

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Quote from Oscar

    Really nice haul. We're they AlL deep? Hope fishermen got a few too. Great harmony. :thumbup:


    We got them in 45-70 feet. Near a wall. The fisherman told me they weren't catching at that time. Current was wrong. I didn't notice much current at that time. It picked up a little later on.


    I think they were catching though. When we got there we saw quite a few figate birds in the air which usually come in when you're gutting fish.