Those guys must have all taken Free Diving courses. 
(just kidding)
I came within an ace of buying land on Samal island back in the 80s. Nice place.
Try to understand what they're saying though. Oysters don't usually....or ever....occur at those depths. They live in shallow estuaries where there is a lot of plankton, they're preferred food. There are lots of Ilonggos in the Davao area so I would guess the local name for oyster is "Talaba".
Shooting tuna at 250 feet. Wow. Unreal. Very unreal.
The year is going out with a bang...literally. I jumped in at one of our cuts to try and find the school of dogs. But with the ingoing tide, they must have been hiding inside the reef. So Jake took the boat inside to anchor and I was going to swim in. I was drifting along approaching the spot where the cut starts to go through the reef and saw a couple dogs pass by. So I dropped down and laid behind a rock in about 25 feet of water. After about 20 seconds here came this nice cubera right at me.
I waited until he got right to me and turned but as I pulled the trigger he bolted. I hit him a bit in the tail going forward coming out behind the gill in the abdomen.
He went for a small rock and I went up. I gently pulled on the line and "pop" it broke. Shit. I pulled it up and no shaft. I looked down and could see it sticking out from under the rock so I went down and there was the fish still on the shaft. I grabbed it and went up with the fish fighting the whole way.
As I tried to get hold of it to brain it, he flopped hard and hit me right in the mouth. hah. The Cubera Wrestling Federation. He almost tapped me out. As I got on the boat blood was running down my chin. 
Jake shot the dog deep. He did a 1 min 48 sec dive to 84 feet and waited. In came the school. They stayed deep though. I didn't get any. haha.
Welcome Tom,
Another gringo in Belize here. I live the closet to you. I know a few spots up here near Dangriga.
I hunt the reel from Gran Channel to English Caye. Used to hunt all around Placencia too. Nice out near Mojo Caye and the "inner" reef going up to Crawl Caye. Lot of hogs and some nice snappers there.
Some good input here.
I'm pretty stone age but I find that bending over my knee is the true "art form" because you have to guess how far to bend without going too far. And you have to go a bit "too far" because of the spring in the steel,
I have done it fairly well on the boat with no hammer though. I just can't get them all straight that way. Especially if there is more than one bend, which black grouper seem to be naturals at doing.
We have a vice in the workshop here but it's in bad shape.
I bend them as best I can over my knee also but I can't get them really straight all the time,
I don't bang them really hard. I just tap on the slight bend and I get them pretty straight.
But I guess that can weaken the metal?
Welcome.
I have a good friend from Spain who was living in the US and Belize....now in Viet Nam. He's been to Brazil and loved it. He wants to move there and start a business too.
The economy is doing well? I hear it can be boom and bust though. But, Brazilians now own Burger King and Budweiser Beer.
Your gun sounds like a cannon going off underwater. Nice fish.
Making David and Goliath on Vimeo
It's stuff like this that never ceases to amaze me.
That's so unreal. I like the sneaky snapper, (looked like a dog) hanging out with them. haha. He's mine.....
Other factors such as fatigue - microscopic cracks from repeated impact, impurities and irregularities in the steel, type of rock, angle of impact, and others also effect the this scenario.
Nice post. Thanks.
The shaft had probably been bent a couple times and straightened. I lay them on a flat slab of concrete outside and pound them straight as a fine tuning method. If it doesn't work, I get a bigger hammer. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> The boys have had this shaft stuck in holes, banged on rocks....it's their training shaft and it's been on a Riffe C3
Dan I still have 4 more of the ones you sent. It's about time to place another order. I'm maintaining about 6 guns now.
Pretty funny to see someone get a new gun. They're all stoked and I'm thinking, "it begins". My friend just bought a nice gun and I'm telling him to order shooting line, crimps, crimp tool, band rubber, wishbone line, dyneema, pigtail. And they were scuba divers so now they need low volume masks, long fins, computer,....haha. He looks at me like..."seriously"? Expect a big order soon. 
Which brand was the shaft? I suspect I guess...
Pursuit
Only time I ever had any problem with one of that brand. And that was no virgin shaft. I think it'd been bounced off more than one rock as Mo and Tino were honing their aim on unsuspecting hogfish. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
A few more.
Duqesnay with a monster. haha. About a million of these were schooling in our canal as I was going out. A few jumped in the boat. That would be a hard shot with a gun. 
Da Boyz....
Great pictures!
The fin's brand is blurred
Yes it was. I'll change that. I think I have the one with the Pursuit name showing. Sorry Dan.
Changed.
The video sends a good message in my opinion. I believe in MPAs and have seen them work in the Philippines and here.
Interesting that they're siting Belize as a model for good fisheries management. Although we do have multiple MPAs, enforcement of them is underfunded and fish are still taken in those areas by the commercial guys. But at least they're trying.
I came home from Hawaii on Monday night and the first thing Mo and Tino say is, "hi Dad, we broke a shaft".
They then stuck the shaft in my face to take a look at. Sure enough, about 6-8 inches (est, I haven't measured it yet) from the tip, it was broken clean off and the remainder was straight.
They said Tino shot a a hogfish and it hit a rock. I'll try and post a pic later.
I've never had that happen.
I also was lucky enough to take two trips this year. Went to Philippines in June and Hawaii in Nov.
I posted a lot of these pics in the A few from Belize thread but you can't see them anymore. Facebook changed the address for the photos or something.
Had a great day with Daryl on his boat. I learn so much from him. He's like an encyclopedia of spearfishing from his experiences and from all the people who pass through and dive with him. Great guy. He showed me how they hunt wahoo there so if I can find this "highway" I've heard about here, maybe I'll get lucky the next full moon or two. 
A few from the Philippine trip. 
Post pictures if you can. An all pic thread. Unreal.
Well, it's years end. I have a lot of good memories and I hope everyone here does. Here are some of the best fish I got this year. I wish everyone a safe and lucky 2013.
Nice. The big ones like that are hard to get close to. Good work.
