Posts by hau

    Maybe it's an outlook related to age BUT for me it's the sheer joy of being in the water and enjoying mother ocean. Yes, I still will take one or two fish to feed the family or better yet - let my son do it while I watch and offer advice. A day on the water and nothing taken is still a GREAT day .


    Then there is Hank - almost 60 with kids and family to feed over three continents from age 1 month to grand kids age one month and who knows how many wives. He HAS got to spear LOTS of fish :laughing3:


    This ^^^ is near perfect for me too. And I also enjoy sharing and learning from other spearos.

    Marco and his boys are the fish whisperers. They shoot big wahoo with 70cm pipe guns :D
    Their hunting skills and fish knowledge are so good that they don't need no stinkin blue water guns like you and me Dude george :laughing:

    Dan-- that Head bag looks NICE. Thanks for sharing
    Dude george--I would suggest carrying your weights in either in a separate bag outside the gun bag or else wrapped up well in the gun bag. If you are like me, you are not using much weight (warm water), but the weights tend to be hard on other gear that is packed next to, like mask / guns / gopro. One of these stand bags, a net bag for fins and a large dry bag for everything else, might work good for your needs
    hope this helps


    Amazon.com: Gator Speaker Stand Bag with Two Compartments (GPA-SPKSTDBG-58DLX): Musical Instruments

    That's my concern more than any other Hau, I feel very little confidence that whoever is around could reach me.


    Yep, me too sir
    Simply buy/install a $5. D ring on your belt and let me know how it works for you. :)

    One of the advantages is that if you are in poor viz and cannot see your buddy on the bottom you know where is is by his float. Grab his float line and you can feel if he is still moving around or possibly SWB on the bottom where you cannot see him.
    Also, out in deeper water, many times a spearo can SWB and be at a deeper depth than the recovery buddy can safely get down to and back up with the victim.


    I agree that being hooked up to a float has potential hazards and that my system will NOT be good for all spearos, but to some spearos my system may be beneficial. I am sure that Steve Barnett is glad that he was hoisted to the surface when he SWB and was drifting down out of sight out in the blue years ago. Steve had one of THE best buddies spotting him, but even Cameron couldn't swim down deep enough to save Steve and had to shoot Steve to establish a holding line down to Steve so that the people on the boat could hoist Steve up with. If Steve had had a line attached to his belt;
    1. Cameron could have hoisted him up sooner
    2. Cameron would not have had to jeopardized his own SWB to save Steve
    hope this helps

    I like the concept but the weight belt may not be the best place to attach your float line. My belts are cheap home smelted lead that I will/have ditch in a heart beat.


    PERFECT---ditch your belt (for any reason) then later go back to your float and hoist your weight belt to the surface--:D

    Thanks Dude george.
    My system might work out well for you also, as I see that you are spearing off a boat and probably using a float already. Just buy the RA Ghost Line or make your own 50ft clear (less likely to scare fish) fluorocarbon line, hook it to your float line, put a big easy unhook SS carabiner on the belt end of the fluorocarbon and a $5. SS D ring on your belt == DONE. :)

    (This might get a little long, sorry)
    SWB continues to be one of the largest causes of death for us freedivers:
    Much research, discussion and design have gone in to developing great new equipment like:
    1. Dr. Maas's FRV.
    2. Freedive classes that teach SWB prevention
    3. We continually warn each other to practice safe freediving techniques like one up and one down, dive your limits, etc, etc.


    All of these methods can be beneficial to prevent SWB and/or rescue freedivers. If one spearo is saved because of a FRV or a freedive class or freedive buddy system then I am all for it. What I would like to present is a method I thought about and started using a while ago. It seemed to simple to work, but so far it has worked great for me.
    Simply put, I hook my clear float line and float to my weight belt D ring with a big easy unsnap SS carabiner.
    My system has worked for me because now:
    1. The boat captain and my dive buddies can see my float and where I am.
    2. I can quickly unsnap the float line from my belt D ring and snap it onto my gun if a big fish starts to spool my gun reel
    3. The 50ft clear 600lb florocarbon float line does not scare fish. This is then attached to a 100ft float line with a float on the terminal end.
    4. If I do SWB, my buddy (or boat captain) can quickly/easily find me (in any viz) and can pull me up (from any depth) to the surface without leaving the surface himself. (Steve Barnett was hoisted to the surface and saved from a SWB years ago).
    hope this helps


    your positive and constructive thoughts about this please

    This is not meant as a derail from using a white snorkel.
    I use a clear snorkel because:
    1. Clear is (IMO) THE best UW camo (I use clear snorkel, clear FG fin blades, clear float line, etc)
    2. You can see when there is stuff growing on the inside of the snorkel that can cause a spearo to get respiratory problems. (how many of you clean out the inside of your snorkel?)
    3. You can see that cockroach hiding inside your snorkel BEFORE you put your snorkel in your mouth. :@


    IMO, there is a much much better way to locating your dive buddy and SAVING him from a SWB. So as to not cause any more of a derail from Dan's white snorkel question, I will start a new thread about this method, called: SWB Float

    Eviltaco--welcome.


    Good luck, you are going to need it. Me and many others have tried for years and years to shoot every shootable fish off Dania Pier, Ft. Lauderdale and Hollywood. All to no avail. We have all failed. I even gave up and moved away to Guam :D

    Awesome guns. Look at all that band stretch. I bet these guns work great


    Beautiful shaped guns seal. I would love to own a gun like that.
    I love:
    the left side line release,
    the minimalist muzzle,
    the band stretch,
    the SS reel,
    the raw carbon,
    the nice wide loading butt
    the nice large trigger guard space
    etc, etc---:D

    I never kick the snorkel out of my mouth either, I see many doing it, doesn't make any sense to me.


    Linghunt---many spearos, research and past experiences lead many spearos to believe that removing the snorkel from ones mouth while underwater lessens the likelihood of drowning if the spearo has a SWB
    hope this helps