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I'm also planning for a freediving training seminar in Baja Mexico for a week in June. I figure that if I have a professional teaching me I can only improve and progress. I'm pretty sure I've only dove to like 60 maybe 65 feet, but I had no problems at all. And Bill, did you have anyone to show you the basics of spearfishing or freediving when you were just starting? Cuz I haven't had anyone experienced teach me or show me...... so if I get the opportunity then by all means I'm gonna take it. It seems to me that the less i try and spear and the more I try and become one with the ocean, the easier it is for me to get close to the fish..... or the sharks.... or the rays. The fish seem to know that I mean them no harm and in turn approach me by the truckloads.....except for those pesky fuckin white sea bass..... you always gotta be wayyyyyyyy kool when approaching them. In fact, everytime I try to approach them, they get very, very sketchy. It just goes to show that I need more practice..... But Calico's and sheepshead are my best of friends. They seems to congregate around me when ever I'm "aspetto" at the bottom. even when i'm "Macetto" upside down in the kelp, they come and say what's up.....