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Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 13:02:06 No.479810 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>480872

Pole spear fishing. Just bought one. Discuss.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 21:15:18 No.480679 Report

Quoted By: >>480727 >>480756

Bring a dive buddy whenever you go, I lived in Hawaii for a while and went spearfishing weekly. You're always hearing stories about kids managing to drown themselves.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 23:00:33 No.480727 Report

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>>480679
I used a pneumatic speargun for a few years. Apparently it sounded like a dinner bell to sharks.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 23:42:34 No.480756 Report

Quoted By: >>480759 >>480872 >>483525

>>480679
Shallow water blackout. It's when you don't give your body enough time to purge CO2 with oxygen. CO2 builds up and you pass out and drown. Pretty common for noobs.

You're going to need a weight belt and some solid fins. I'm 155 and use a 3lb belt and my fins are Cressi Gara 3000. My mask and snorquel are made by Cressi for free diving. I also wear a thermal top and gloves so I can pull myself into holes and grab onto shit.

You're going to need a dive knife, line, float, and a dive flag too for starters.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 23:47:37 No.480759 Report

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>>480756
Dats why you always start out, and it's a good idea to go with a buddy when possible.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Mar 2015 02:42:04 No.480872 Report

Quoted By: >>480879 >>481512 >>481521 >>481527

>>479810
Just roll me on a Seaurchin!!
,do you care about the comunity your eating?
,,,well, if so, then OK! Delicious.
,mostly its a security blanket. youll grow outait.
>>480727
so the bleeding, thrashing, SCREAMING FOR MERCY!, fish you shot had little to do with attractng sharks?
,and realy, sharks are cool,,,Fuc Baracuda.
>>480756
>pass out and drown. Pretty common for noobs.
>You're going to need a weight belt
,,,,,,, im, clearly, stupid,, but you make it feels Alrighty!
. LETS ALLL TEST THIS!!
,everyone hold your breath till you pass out?!
,,, lets see if ANYONE is THAT LOW on the life force!!

, to start,all you need is a mask,, and a full bathtub.
,,,, bring a buddy.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Mar 2015 02:48:04 No.480879 Report

Quoted By: >>480882 >>481690

>>480872

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Anonymous Wed 18 Mar 2015 02:53:36 No.480882 Report

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>>480879
can you be specific,,, less criptic?
,, just which word, are you having trouble with?

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 03:55:40 No.481512 Report

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>>480872
shallow water black out is a pretty well known cause of death for free divers

it's not from holding your breath as much as its more you haven't given yourself enough time to get to the surface

I've never pushed myself to the point of 'oh fuck, get me some air' but I can see how it would happen, get a bit distracted tailing a fish deep, see the mad bed of oysters and just 'forget'

it is the no1 cause of death for snorklers

your post was just... well, I don't know
>pointless

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 04:32:39 No.481521 Report

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>>480872
>>480882
Why'd you stop posting in scuba gen ahahahhahahaha

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 04:44:30 No.481527 Report

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>>481512
>it is the no1 cause of death for snorklers
please source? all i find is guesswork, maybe 44 Kill per year?
,,idid suggest a buddy,, but, YOUR RIGHT!
>>480872
,im bad wrong.,, shocked that people can drown themselves, i knew Dolphins could. now thats self control!
,,, the odds are in my favor,,diveing past the kelp roots at channel islands is 80feet,, thats were the Trueblue is

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 06:00:03 No.481554 Report

Quoted By: >>481556 >>481800

>>481527
well what is? sharks? fuck mate there's like 4 things that will kill you in the water

predators

blacking out

some fuckwit in a boat

some underlying illness you have, heart attack or some shit

I bet blacking out is at the top of the deaths toll for that list

a buddy is a great idea and pretty much a rule of thumb while diving but really they are a bit of a false sense of security, I don't know how many times I've lost where abouts my mate was and it's taken me a couple mins to find him or vice versa

>44 deaths is still greater than the >10 from sharks

what the fuck is with your grammar? it's all up the fuck

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 06:22:25 No.481556 Report

Quoted By: >>481559

>>481554
I know that here in FL the deaths from idiots in boats are greater than for blacking out. The number of deaths total still isn't that large for either.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 06:29:58 No.481559 Report

Quoted By: >>481571

>>481556
that's people snorkeling dying at the hands of boaties, eg: running over them, not drunk idiot capsizing without a life jacket?

wow if it's the former you really need stricter boat controls/better education

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 07:00:20 No.481571 Report

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>>481559
The main issue is people that are tourists from out of state renting out boats for a day or a couple of days; even smaller stuff like mini sailboats (dunno what those are called specifically) or jetskis can cause deaths. The rental companies--some that operate directly off the beach--will rent to anyone that's over 18 and has a pulse so long as they'll sit through a 10 minute safety briefing. A guy I knew of but didn't know personally got hit in the head by one of those sailboat things (which are virtually silent compared to motorboats) and died after blacking out--they guy that hit him realized he hit him right afterwards but wasn't quick enough about getting to him (probably couldn't swim anyway--a surprising number of tourists going on the water and even people that have lived here their whole lives can't) or getting someone to get him and he drowned. Why he didn't alert him before he hit him is beyond me.

The other thing is that among both tourists people that live here (and should fucking know better) the boating laws aren't common knowledge and people will still not realize what a diver down flag means. I have a cooler that floats on the water with dock buoys to keep it from flipping over and it has a full-sized diver down flag flying from it--it's pretty much impossible to miss even from a great distance and I take it with me whenever I shore dive. While I'm sure it's kept other boaters away from me, at the same time I've had people drive up in a boat and try to grab the cooler because they think for some reason it's a cooler that fell off another boat, had jetskiers drive up to me within 10' or so to ask me what the flag means, or had jetskiers do donuts around it (while I hug the reef below and pray) because maybe they think it's a course marker in a racing game for bonus points--I've seen them do donuts around channel markers in active channels too.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 07:09:45 No.481574 Report

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>>481571
While not strictly spearfishing related here's also a bunch of deaths every lobster mini season as everyone rents a boats (or takes a boat they own but use once or twice a year) and rushes out to the same couple of couple of overcrowded spots they've heard from people are good spots--even though the entire rest of the ocean is open to them and lobsters are all over the goddamn place even in random patch reefs--and disregards all boating laws and common decency. Drinking constantly while boating is also an issue since very rarely are laws against drunk operators enforced until after they've ran into something/someone (though to be fair to law enforcement it is much harder to do on the ocean than on the road.)

If you ever decide to brave the hell that is lobster mini season you'll see wonderful things such as boats passing mere feet from other boats (stationary and in motion) and swimmers, people anchored in the middle of the channel while they (the only person on the boat, or the only person on the boat except for their 9 year old son) are diving below, people that have tied 4 boats together for the purpose of partying but neglected to anchor any of them to something that isn't also a boat or neglected to ensure that their anchors are actually holding them in place so their flotilla (which they can't separate with any speed, having made sure they're good and tied and also being drunk) is free to float wherever the water takes them, people surfacing from diving far away from any diver down flag because the emergency scuba pole flag they bought from the dive shop is a magical talisman that will protect them wherever and whenever they decide to surface.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 14:48:44 No.481690 Report

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>>480879
that individual is a forum treasure

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Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 20:33:50 No.481800 Report

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>>481554
>predators

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Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 17:56:12 No.483525 Report

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>>480756
You don't pass out from build up of CO2, you pass out because of lack of oxygen.

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