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Originally Posted by Huan
A good meythod of spearing safely with a buddy is to share the gun.
One up spotting and one down spearing.
Diver comes up and hands the gun over to the spotter.
No problem with overexcited spearos plugging you on the bottom.
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That's a state of the art safety routine, especially when you dive deep: you go down and your buddy waits on the boat or by the float, timing your dive ready to rescue. When reef hunting, instead, people normally spear 50mt distant, sending "ok" signals once in a while and briefing about fish and water conditions for mutual advice. They pay maniac attention not to aim the gun towards their buddies, and they use the safe of the gun. This is the way people should do.
But apart of these wise safety rules, let's be true, real life is sadly different: when i go spearing with friends everyone goes for himself, looking for relaxing and self-satisfying experience and not caring about the others. Most of them take off the safe button from their guns (i don't) to avoid loosing fishes for safe-on shot attempts. So it's better to stay away from each other, and hope in God. Truth hurts, i know.
