whats the most motivating tv show or book that either got your attention or got you started in diving/spearfishing or underwater adventure???? im interested as im both currious how people got into the sport and if im missing any awsome books or shows?
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most motivating spearing or diving books tv shows
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oh, my two most motivating so far would be.
Ocean Hunter tv show on ESPN-cable.. awsome underwater freediving and spearfishing program that my whole family just loves!
out of the books ive read, afew were moving to me in particular helldiver's rodeo was a good interesting read. and Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.. its a mixture of fiction and fact on a uboat found off the coast of new jersey.
Ocean Hunter tv show on ESPN-cable.. awsome underwater freediving and spearfishing program that my whole family just loves!
out of the books ive read, afew were moving to me in particular helldiver's rodeo was a good interesting read. and Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.. its a mixture of fiction and fact on a uboat found off the coast of new jersey.
Well, what got me in free diving without knowing, is a tv showI saw when I was 7-8 (20 now), and back I was always trying to push my swimming further underwater and try to touch the bottom of the pool, and I was better by far then all the kids at that age.
I started really getting into it last fall and this http://http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Freediving-Underwater-Single-Breath/dp/1928649270 that really got me into it, and got me to improve my self (77 m by training my self), but now since I joined the army :t don't have th watchfull eye of my old Lifeguard compagnion.
I started really getting into it last fall and this http://http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Freediving-Underwater-Single-Breath/dp/1928649270 that really got me into it, and got me to improve my self (77 m by training my self), but now since I joined the army :t don't have th watchfull eye of my old Lifeguard compagnion.
Well i guess its been a while but when i was snorkelling as a kid i always watched my friends dad dive deep getting crays inWestern Australia, which got me interested but then back at hos place he would always play The Big Blue movie which was definentely when i was first hooked seeing the characters diving "forever into the ocean" all i wanted to do was go deeper. as for books any one of the many magazines which are availble fed my early addiction but now its more or less this forum which really gets me going. trading info with some of the greats on here really makes a man try harder and strive for that next meter in depth, distance or next 10sec in static... it really is addictive.
Jacque Cousteau Adventure and Man From Atlantis TV show of the 70's or 80's. Sea Lab 2020 cartoon TV show also in the same decade.Baywatch in the 90's .Into The Blue movie by paul walker and jessica alba in this decade and of course YOU TUBE!!! Hehehehe
My dad gave me a really old book called "the complete goggeler" it's very old and shows you how things were done then! Old motorbike goggels with putty blocking the holes up!! A great book to own for the spearos!! And of course "the big blue"
Has anyone any info on the film "the meaning of water"? I heard it was given a cash injection to finish it off?
Has anyone any info on the film "the meaning of water"? I heard it was given a cash injection to finish it off?
Let me tell you of a freediving movie that did not inspire me. First off, my hubby and I are more than willing to go to great lengths to get movies not readily available here in the US. We ordered a DVD player that plays any region discs, the Japanese versions of Ocean Men and a Jacques Mayol documentary. Then, we found an older movie about Pippin Ferraras, and of course we ordered it. We got a couple on spearfishing which were okay, have watched countless documentaries, read books and magazines as they become available. All of these were inspiring to some degree...except one--"The Freediver." It's called "Aqua Blue" in Japan, and it stars Judd Nelson and Alex Baldwin (no, not one of the better-known Baldwin brothers). The story is about a crazed scientist/doctor, who wants to push this one female's abilities as a freediver to the utmost extremes. There is an American freediver, also female, who is a raving brat. Oh, and Fred Buyle is also in it. I won't spoil the plot for those of you who wish to see it. As a freediver, and with so few options out there for freediving movies...I'll probably watch the darn thing again. But it definitely didn't inspire to me to do much of anything. Except maybe pop in Big Blue into the DVD player to remind myself what a good movie is all about.
Gilpatrics, "The Complete Googler" is a classic. Some images for the Skin Diver reprint in the 1950's appear at:
Photo Of The Day!!! - Page 14 - FKA Kiteboarding Forums
The book is now supposed to be worth quite a bit now so hang on to it.
Sea Hunt (reruns quite a bit later!), Primus and a number of movies launched some of us back in the day. As to books, "Dive" by Carrier, "Always Another Adventure" by Marx, "Something Rich And Strange" by Schroeder and many more.
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I watched The Big Blue as a kid and it stayed with me. I could never, and still can't, really explain -why- I want to do it, I just want to really badly. For years I didn't, partly for financial reasons, partly because i was overweight and didn't feel like I could go through it (or imagine myself in a wetsuit). Other reasons intervened, but they all seem meaningless and dumb now.
Interestingly enough, the last catalyst was that post that RickI posted in FKA, a forum which I also lurk frequently (I am also trying to learn kiteboarding, hoping to make it to The Kitehouse in Nov.). Seeing that post sort of started this chain reaction that got me looking into freediving again, and it reawakened that interest I had in it. I know it seems very tangential, but thanks for that post RickI
Interestingly enough, the last catalyst was that post that RickI posted in FKA, a forum which I also lurk frequently (I am also trying to learn kiteboarding, hoping to make it to The Kitehouse in Nov.). Seeing that post sort of started this chain reaction that got me looking into freediving again, and it reawakened that interest I had in it. I know it seems very tangential, but thanks for that post RickI
I just came across a international magazine "Hawaii Skin Diver" that I found at my local book/magazine store. Great articles and awesome photos. Gets me right in the mood to go diving. Waiting for my swim buddy to get back from a trip so we can get wet again...
Greek Sponge Divers
These guys blow me away. The world's first technical divers. Imagine how they felt seeing what had never been seen before, discovering treasures from antiquity. Also finding out the hard way the physics of diving.
Cousteau's colleague Dumas describes them as the old helmet divers, who he spoke too, gaining insight & locations of wrecks in the Mediterranean.
Greek sponge diving
WOW
These guys blow me away. The world's first technical divers. Imagine how they felt seeing what had never been seen before, discovering treasures from antiquity. Also finding out the hard way the physics of diving.
Cousteau's colleague Dumas describes them as the old helmet divers, who he spoke too, gaining insight & locations of wrecks in the Mediterranean.
Greek sponge diving
WOW
I can't believe i forgot this article, or even less that I still had it. Was looking through some old boxes today and came across these. This article was what let me know that Jean-Jacques Mayol was teaching down in Miami at that time. I still even have the stuff they sent me when I called inquiring about the classes. Alas, i was a very very poor college student...
(Article is about 6 pages plus a couple other photos)
(Article is about 6 pages plus a couple other photos)