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Originally Posted by Mr. X
Magnificant fish Bill. Hope your shoulders are healing (look ok in the photo!) -- did you tear your rotator cuffs hauling the huge fish around? That float system really is pretty fancy. Did you design it yourself or buy it?
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I'm not quite sure how my shoulders got the way they were, but the therapist thinks a lifetime of heavy weight lifting probably contributed. Both had big bone spurs impinging on the rotator cuffs and one had the biceps tendon hanging on by a few threads of scar tissue, so it had to be cut back and attached to a titanium anchor in the head of my humerus.
That photo is deceiving in that I'm leaning way back and sliding the fish up my body. The shoulders are no where close to being able to hold that fish up yet. I even had my buddies cocking the gun and helping get the weight belt on.
The float is made by Riffe. His normal utility float sold in dive shops has just one 16 gram CO2 cylinder, which will fully inflate it only if you are on the surface. This one adds a second cylinder and a relief valve to vent off the excess gas as it ascends.
I bought it a few years ago, but since then Carter Lift Bags has come out with a similar product
http://www.carterbag.com/spearfish.html
that is cheaper and has more lift- 38 grams vs. 32 grams for the Riffe)
It doesn't have a clip, but its easy and cheap to add one.
