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Tues. March 25th.

Posted April 20th, 2008 at 11:52 by ickledevil
Afternoon dive on a falling tide.
Took one of the boats out for a gear shake down, first dive since I moved down and the weather has finally settled after the fun of last weeks winds. Went looking for some of those non existant shellfish with Titus. Vis was ok but not great at about 2m, diving in maybe 4m of water. Wind was blowing gently from NW and water was calm. Managed to collect a dinners worth of shellfish and missed a skate I swam straight across, to top it off lost my snorkle (being...
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FIT and Spearfishing, what a trip..... PART 1

Posted April 19th, 2008 at 04:37 by ILDiver
Safety is always at the top of my list with diving in general. When I started "freediving" I knew I had to learn the right way. I really consider most of what I do in fresh water to be snorkeling, since I'm rarely below 10' and the dangers were minimal. But I wanted to go deeper.

Many years ago I saw a program on TV. This guy wants to set a world record freediving on this sled contraption. He needed safety divers, so he went to a scuba club, but they did not jump at the...
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FIT and Spearfishing, what a trip..... PART 2

Posted April 19th, 2008 at 04:37 by ILDiver
Day two we went straight to the pool. First thing we did was a good warm-up in the deep end. Then we moved over to a shallow section to do more statics. We did a few easy holds as the day before, but built up a little faster this time. My third hold felt great, but I wanted to save myself for my final hold. I think I should have kept going on that attempt, in hind sight I felt better on that attempt than the following. So the fourth hold I get a nice long breath up, get relaxed and settle in to...
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