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Are you kidding?? You sound like you are making a joke of this.If you are serious, read some more on this website about NOT DIVING ALONE. A little less than 2 weeks ago, one of the very best freedivers in the world died while diving alone. This guy was not only an AIDA judge (which means he knew his stuff about freediving) he was also a doctor (sorry I can't spell or pronounce his proper title)which means he knew more than 99% of us when it comes to understanding our breathing. Put it this way, if you are alone and you do it wrong, YOUR DEAD. There is no gray area. My advice, Go for a swim tomorrow with your new fins and don't hold your breath. Find someone to dive with who knows proper safety protocol and take a course.
kingj0n Tony speaks total sense, If you cant find a partner DO NOT ATTEMPT to dive alone, you might think we are silly but The odds are you mother will miss you once you never come back home. And do treat the members here with a little more respect, allot of these guys are seasoned freedivers/spearfishers and we know what we are talking about.
But let me try and answer some questions:
1. Preferably dive with booties since it will prevent chaffing and is allot more comfortable than swimming with blisters.
2. Normal equalization happens between 5 and 10 meter intervals depending on conditions and oceanic density and pressure but you will feel your ears starting to hurt,
3. Staying down for less than a minute for a beginner is a good idea if you have a proper time peace to time that with, but there is no surfacing technique since I doubt youll go further than 10m on your first attempts at diving.
Now my speech continues freediving is a wonderful sport, But find yourself a diving buddy, the last thing your friends and family need is a dead man, and the last thing we need to read is that another freediver, diving allone, with no booties, had a shallow water blackout OK buddy.
I am going to ask you to reconsider your dive till you have a mate, and besides that enjoy the underwater paradise. And be safe, in the words of someone wiser than me.
There are old divers and bold divers: but NO old bold divers
But let me try and answer some questions:
1. Preferably dive with booties since it will prevent chaffing and is allot more comfortable than swimming with blisters.
2. Normal equalization happens between 5 and 10 meter intervals depending on conditions and oceanic density and pressure but you will feel your ears starting to hurt,
3. Staying down for less than a minute for a beginner is a good idea if you have a proper time peace to time that with, but there is no surfacing technique since I doubt youll go further than 10m on your first attempts at diving.
Now my speech continues freediving is a wonderful sport, But find yourself a diving buddy, the last thing your friends and family need is a dead man, and the last thing we need to read is that another freediver, diving allone, with no booties, had a shallow water blackout OK buddy.
I am going to ask you to reconsider your dive till you have a mate, and besides that enjoy the underwater paradise. And be safe, in the words of someone wiser than me.
There are old divers and bold divers: but NO old bold divers
Ok if your serious then I apologize just the trend of your posts indicates otherwise.
Hunting with a speargun is difficult enough, hunting with a knife for an unseasoned diver is nearly impossible and you will only frustrate yourself.
As far as the fins yeah any fin will work, some just work better than others but freediving fins are expensive and a technological marvel if you ask me.
But kit is not a consideration if your just starting out. Safety above all else, and have fun, and I dont know where you get your figures from but no most people will have a diving buddy or six go with them. There are the odd occasion where people go at it alone, but that 1 never a wise thing, 2 more than likely a seasoned diver 3 people who know their limits 4 someone that is comfortable with their surroundings and know all the conditions.
But none the less have fun and dont kill yourself
Hunting with a speargun is difficult enough, hunting with a knife for an unseasoned diver is nearly impossible and you will only frustrate yourself.
As far as the fins yeah any fin will work, some just work better than others but freediving fins are expensive and a technological marvel if you ask me.
But kit is not a consideration if your just starting out. Safety above all else, and have fun, and I dont know where you get your figures from but no most people will have a diving buddy or six go with them. There are the odd occasion where people go at it alone, but that 1 never a wise thing, 2 more than likely a seasoned diver 3 people who know their limits 4 someone that is comfortable with their surroundings and know all the conditions.
But none the less have fun and dont kill yourself
If your going out in 5-10ft of water and just snorkleing, your probably fine. You should be inside any swim markers at the beach. The big thing is to not push yourself to stay down longer, just stay down until your body says breath.
Spearing off any sort off a beach in the Gulf is going to be slim to none as far as I know. I've never seen anything in close worth trying to spear.
Also, you may want to try a different approach to gathering information. It came off as if you were announcing that you don't have time for training or safety, "I'm just going to blast into the sea and hope for the best!" is more how it reads. If you were trying to avoid what you knew you would hear, "don't dive alone". Well then that failed.
Spearing off any sort off a beach in the Gulf is going to be slim to none as far as I know. I've never seen anything in close worth trying to spear.
Also, you may want to try a different approach to gathering information. It came off as if you were announcing that you don't have time for training or safety, "I'm just going to blast into the sea and hope for the best!" is more how it reads. If you were trying to avoid what you knew you would hear, "don't dive alone". Well then that failed.
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A clip with a mask is a bad idea imo. Can't clear your ears is the minor issue. You can't equalize the mask and if water gets in the mask you can't get it out.
There is a ton of good info on this site. But finding someone who will give you a crash course online to cut corners is not likely to happen. "We" want everyone to be safe. There are dangers, just be aware of them. No one that I have read about that died freediving intended to kill themselves, it just happens.
How deep did you get and how did the dives go? Did you see more than just sand?
There is a ton of good info on this site. But finding someone who will give you a crash course online to cut corners is not likely to happen. "We" want everyone to be safe. There are dangers, just be aware of them. No one that I have read about that died freediving intended to kill themselves, it just happens.
How deep did you get and how did the dives go? Did you see more than just sand?
kingj0n,
You do seem to be serious in Your endeavour, so I'd like to ask You to be serious in preparing and educating Yourself for it as well.
In Your posts You seek our advice and there's plenty of that here, now all You need to do is heed that advice and Your freedving experience is going to be much safer and more enjoyable and Your successes will be greater as well.
What You're doing right now is dangerous, even more so because You're just starting off (which we all have at one time). Our telling You not to do some things comes from the experience of losing people in our lives because they did what You say You doing.
You will find lots of good information on this forum, just by using the search function. Try it with "dive computer" or "depth gauge"
The best way to start will be the how to start freediving thread. The information there has not been compiled to hamper Young freedivers, as You seem to suspect, but to give them the best possible start.
Read through this thread. Read it and mangle it through Your brain to see what's in it.
Safe diving,
Sanso
You do seem to be serious in Your endeavour, so I'd like to ask You to be serious in preparing and educating Yourself for it as well.
In Your posts You seek our advice and there's plenty of that here, now all You need to do is heed that advice and Your freedving experience is going to be much safer and more enjoyable and Your successes will be greater as well.
What You're doing right now is dangerous, even more so because You're just starting off (which we all have at one time). Our telling You not to do some things comes from the experience of losing people in our lives because they did what You say You doing.
You will find lots of good information on this forum, just by using the search function. Try it with "dive computer" or "depth gauge"
The best way to start will be the how to start freediving thread. The information there has not been compiled to hamper Young freedivers, as You seem to suspect, but to give them the best possible start.
Read through this thread. Read it and mangle it through Your brain to see what's in it.
Safe diving,
Sanso
yeah I beleive he is serious too and Sanso does give good advice, guess it just came of wrong and we are all on the back foot cause we love the sport so much.. But we all had to start somewhere even if its to learn how to post with the right tones lol. Anyway Kingj0n, guess all is calmed down and fire away questions at will.
After seeing someone blackout on the surface with their face out of the water I will never dive alone. KIngjon, there has to be someone on this beach your diving at that can go exploring/hunting with you. Even if its someone on a surfboard or float that can keep you airway out of the water should you blackout. As a beginner, you probably won't blackout, but as you progress, you'll start pushing your limits. You asked about freediving computers? When you get your computer, the first thing you start looking at is your depth. The next thing, your bottom time. And you'll start saying to yourself, "I bet I can go another 10 seconds." Its human competitive nature.Dude listen to us, swim around,snorkel,don't hold your breath, have fun. But don't freedive/spearfish alone. Blackouts happen so fast, and if no one is there to help you. You will die. Start looking for people to dive with. Your at the beach for Gods sake. I bet, if you look hard enough, you'll find plenty of people. You don't seem shy at your computer. And if you haven't noticed by this forum, freedivers are not shy either. We are always looking for dive buddies. Hell the only reason I work is because all of my dive buddies work, I get bored. But I won't dive alone. I won't lie, I used to. I've come up seeing stars from trying to dislodge a spear in the rocks and used to think nothing of it. I now have a wife and two children. My wife flips out every time she hears of a diving accident. (scuba accidents happen frequently around here) She completly went bonkers when she read about Dimitris dying. The less people that die freediving, the better my chances of staying married. I'm sorry to rant like this. I just feel that stongly about it. Well, now that you know that my balls are kept in my wifes purse, I'll shut up. PLease dive safe. Tony
