Good afternoon!
My name is Mike and I'm a senior at Florida Atlantic University studying Business Economics. I grew up in South Florida my entire life, so the beach and the ocean alike are practically apart of me. I'm recently getting into free diving and spearfishing myself with this project that I've been apart of in my Entrepreneurship course.
I wanted to get the community of diving and spearfishing enthusiasts' opinion on a problem that my friend (group mate) has noticed as well as your opinion on a potential solution to this problem.
My buddy Jake is an avid spear-fisherman and beach diver and he's realized the issue of keeping shot fish on your stringer first-hand when his buddy was attacked by a bull shark (please excuse any jargon errors, and the buddy is alright!). Along with other incidents and research done online, Jake came to figure there was a safety problem with keeping a stringer of fish on you while spearfishing.
1) Do you think there is a safety problem with keeping shot fish on your stringer underwater while you spearfish?
So, we decided to use this potential "problem" idea for our entrepreneurship course project and chose to try and approach it with a solution. We figured if we could create a more convenient, cost-effective, and SAFE way to spearfish, we may be able to get more people out in the water. We decided to recreate traditional dive floats that we found on the market. A big reason for doing this was Jake realized that a majority of the floats for sale were very costly and didn't offer too many features.
We initially designed a hard-shelled float that would serve as a fish box/bag with added features like hooks/straps for your gun, an extendable flag, as well as a dry box for your material items and potentially a bladder for fluids. After contacting potential consumers, we revised the design to ultimately be a backpack float. This backpack float is not only convenient, it will be cost effective and provide that safe spot for fish storage while your'e out on the water. You can also take it on dive trips with ease!
My second and more important question to you is, as divers and spear-fishermen yourselves, what would you like to see out of this "back pack float"? What materials would you guys recommend? How much do you feel comfortable paying for your floats? What do you dislike about the floats on the market today?
I apologize for the lengthiness of this post, but we really need your opinion to create this optimal product for you guys.
Any feedback would be much appreciated. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or ideas please feel free to reach out.
Thank you!
My name is Mike and I'm a senior at Florida Atlantic University studying Business Economics. I grew up in South Florida my entire life, so the beach and the ocean alike are practically apart of me. I'm recently getting into free diving and spearfishing myself with this project that I've been apart of in my Entrepreneurship course.
I wanted to get the community of diving and spearfishing enthusiasts' opinion on a problem that my friend (group mate) has noticed as well as your opinion on a potential solution to this problem.
My buddy Jake is an avid spear-fisherman and beach diver and he's realized the issue of keeping shot fish on your stringer first-hand when his buddy was attacked by a bull shark (please excuse any jargon errors, and the buddy is alright!). Along with other incidents and research done online, Jake came to figure there was a safety problem with keeping a stringer of fish on you while spearfishing.
1) Do you think there is a safety problem with keeping shot fish on your stringer underwater while you spearfish?
So, we decided to use this potential "problem" idea for our entrepreneurship course project and chose to try and approach it with a solution. We figured if we could create a more convenient, cost-effective, and SAFE way to spearfish, we may be able to get more people out in the water. We decided to recreate traditional dive floats that we found on the market. A big reason for doing this was Jake realized that a majority of the floats for sale were very costly and didn't offer too many features.
We initially designed a hard-shelled float that would serve as a fish box/bag with added features like hooks/straps for your gun, an extendable flag, as well as a dry box for your material items and potentially a bladder for fluids. After contacting potential consumers, we revised the design to ultimately be a backpack float. This backpack float is not only convenient, it will be cost effective and provide that safe spot for fish storage while your'e out on the water. You can also take it on dive trips with ease!
My second and more important question to you is, as divers and spear-fishermen yourselves, what would you like to see out of this "back pack float"? What materials would you guys recommend? How much do you feel comfortable paying for your floats? What do you dislike about the floats on the market today?
I apologize for the lengthiness of this post, but we really need your opinion to create this optimal product for you guys.
Any feedback would be much appreciated. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or ideas please feel free to reach out.
Thank you!
