Guernsey 2013

[Miguel1337]

Thank you every one for the answers

ok then i must have caution with the boats , I'm thinking to do mine first dive around that "castle cornet" i think that's the name, in the town what do you think guys?

Were can i buy a speargun and weights? is there any marine Secondhand shop? Where do you buy your gear? online or local shop?
which type of speargun do you use/recomend? in madeira i had the one with elastic because that ones with air/gas were not allowed by law.

Sorry about my english xD

Thank you

 

[jks]

Hi all i was in today for about 3 of hours on the north coast 1m/3m vis no fish seen but i did get a couple scallops .31 dives. deepest 7.3m .9deg. Easy going really.

Miguel try this its in jersey.Apnea

 

[Magpie]

There a few places that sell limited spearing gear over here, just basic beauchat stuff, likes Micks Fishing by Aladins Cave. Dive gear like weights can be had a dive shops like the one in the bunker on the castle emplacement. For better gear the internet is the place, with apnea in Jersey a good place to start as Jks says.

Castle Cornet would be a decent dive as long as you're comfortable in slightly deeper water. One spot you really do need a float and to be aware of boats though.

 

[foxfish]

Nothing to do with spearfishing but here is a bit of my latest wood work!

Completely non tradisional super fast playing..

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fBFiibBag]My Project 11 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Yeti]

can't wait to hear some of the noises that are gunna be produced in August!! :ban

 

[foxfish]

Does that mean you want to have a go? I will see if i have an old snorkel for you..

 

[denian]

um the missus just told me to tell you that we are leavening ours here to gather dust !I thought that was great can we take it down to the sea to draw the fish in! I must go and unpack it for some more practice......May end up coming on my own !

 

[Yeti]

Does that mean you want to have a go? I will see if i have an old snorkel for you..

er no I was thinking other peoples noises! although I'll have a go with a snorkel! or a bit of old polypipe!

 

[jerseymike]

Nothing to do with spearfishing but here is a bit of my latest wood work!

Bloody norah...............

Fantastic!

 

[foxfish]

Get yourself a 1200mm length of 28mm PVC waste pipe & watch a few YouTube vids about circular breathing - you will be playing by the fish in!

I started playing about 25 years ago but, it has only been since Christmas that I learnt to circular breath & that is because of the tube showing me how!

I can play a few different musical instruments mostly in a rudimentary basic fashion but the didge is by far the most difficult!
However it is all about getting your head around the concept rather than musical ability.
You need to perform some unnatural functions & several at one time but it all comes together eventually...! LOL

 

[ep_haury]

:wave

So are there shells in your waters that, with little or no modification, could serve to hold a small amount of liquid. Precisely, it should be able to hold significant strip of skin from a dogfish and a certain amount of liquid. I assume the reason why anyone would want that is obvious.

Ormer wold be large enough, I'm sure, but blast those holes!!!. (Could have clay or something to fill them, I suppose. But if there's anything else.)

 

[Magpie]

The lower half of a scallop shell would hold just as much, if not more, than an ormer shell Eric, and it's got no holes!

Spider or chancre crab shells would hold even more but they'd also be a lot more fragile.

 

[foxfish]

A small amount? perhaps a winkle

 

[Yeti]

????? I'm mucho :hmm please enlighten me??

 

[ep_haury]

Let's just say the liquid in question is urine. I think that explains it all.

 

[ep_haury]

OK, seriously, the idea is that they use the skins of dogfish as sanding rags -- though I must use other terminology in the story, as sanding sounds like it came into use after the invention of sandpaper. And they cure it with urine. It is also one of their major sources of trade with distant mermaid colonies. So it has to be large enough to hold enough liquid and enough dogfish skin to end up as a good sized rag.

They could also use carved stone bowls or recovered bowls (or bowl substitute, like metal helmets), but a shell would probably need less work to make a stone bowl; so as long as there's a workable shell, that would seem the most likely item to use.

Oh and Johnny, yes this work is going to be epic length, not epic in the sense of having a vast number of locations -- though my island of Tane is based on one epic location .

 

[sp9hzx]

Definitely 5mm wetsuit is enough



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[foxfish]

Then Toms suggestion is good or possibly the hollow fonds of sea weed, there is a bulbous air filled sack that grows on a particular weed, kelp I think, that is very commonly washed ashore?

 

[ep_haury]

How big can those air sacks get? Would they need to be altered -- or put in a depression of sorts -- in any way to be able to remain upright & stable?

 

[foxfish]

Eric I dont really know much about the kelp air sacs or bladders or floats?
I have just seen loads of them on the beaches after a storm, we call the long fonds of kelp 'lion tails' & most of them have a large bulbous hollow bases (or maybe its the top)
Perhaps Tom can help?