Questions for you.. whta are the rules for spearing aroun there? ... should I just ask the dive shop?.... I heard octopus AT night is alot of fun?... where exactly are you... any good spearing by you ?... are you Italian ? I have a 70cm Cressi Sub pnuematic gun will that be good enough? does the "top Sub" service cressi sub and can I get spears through them? is there any particular place in Italy you have dove that was really exceptional? Have you eer dove any where els e besides Italy?
So you're here to stay! I wish you all the best.
Now questions.
-Jobs: it's just like anywhere else in Western Europe. Finding a job can be a matter of a few hours, but finding a
good job is not easy: it takes specific abilities and specific...friends in the right places.
-Rules: no scuba hunting, no night hunting, no lobstering no scalloping, a float or buoy is mandatory.
-Me: I am a Tuscan now working in the north (Tuscany is just below Genoa's region on the Thyrrenic Sea, central western Italy).
-the Cressi 70 airgun is very useful for hole hunting (pesca in tana) which is a fundamental tecnhnique for hunting these waters. I always bring on a Mares 70 airgun: it's a "must have" in the Mediterranean.
-Top Sub: they have all the best brands and also make their own wooden guns, carbon fins and fantastic custom wetsuits. The owner, mister Silvano Agostini, has been for 20 years a first category competitive spearo. He and his mates are good company if you want to learn and find good spots around Genoa.
-places: Just come and see. in general, as I told you, our waters are not very fishy due to HARD net fisheries. And in the last seven years many, too many of the really exceptional places to spearfish have become Marine Parks where spearfishing is forbidden. Among the best three places I've been, two of them (Cinque Terre near Genoa and Lampedusa way south) became Marine Parks) and the third best place Giglio Island off the Tuscan coast, will become a Marine Park next year. However, there are officially 83 thousands active spearos in the country: we all do have fun and do get some fish.
