Greetings from Monterey, California!

[datbear]

Hello everyone,

My name is Nicholas and I was introduced to this site by my colleagues. This website definitely holds true to the title of largest community dedicated to freediving, SCUBA, spearing, and anything recreaitonally aquatic, I love it. Looking forward to participating and looking through the archives here.

I am currently progressing towards being a Dive Master and I am a recreational free diver, constantly improving my performance everyday.

Besides refining my freedive performance and working with my Go-pro, my main project right now is painting my wetsuit to be aqua man colors. (orange torso, green everything else)
So far I've done a couple tests with acrylic paint and textile mediums, but if anyone knows a more successful method, I'd love to hear it!

thanks for reading
-Nicholas Ta

 

[Bill McIntyre]

Welcome Nicholas.

I don't know whether they can help you with wetsuit painting, but if you want help with free dive spearfishing, you might want to contact this club.

http://www.montereybaytritons.com

A member of the club just returned from Peru where he was on the US team at the World Championship, and the club recently organized and and hosted the Pacific Coast Championship.

 

[datbear]

I was given a tip to contact mermaid fanatics (people who make mermaid tails) about decorating wetsuits, i'll do some research and share the info given to me!

thanks for the link, i'll definitely check them out! There are a couple spearfishing and freediving clubs here in monterey

 

[BatRay]

Welcome to Deeperblue, Nicholas. You are fortunate to be from Monterey. I usually dive off of Del Monte or the Breakwall, though it's been far too long. I'd be interested in seeing the result of your wetsuit painting project. It sounds interesting.

 

[datbear]

hey Batray, I've been freediving at Del monte beach recently, surprisingly there's a lot out there than just sand banks.

been going up and down the beaches looking at kelp patterns

as for the paint job, I have all the material but that will be on hold. something about painting a $400 wetsuit irks me,

 

[BatRay]

Yeah, it's surprisingly interesting out there. I did some diving near the buoys and there is a fair amount to see there, too.

Folks from my local dive shop have been hunting off that beach and they reported some nice halibut. Have you seen those? I mostly saw sanddabs and crabs on my dives.