Spearfishing wrecks UK

[Massin]

Hi surfnspear,
I understand the inherent risks with the wrecks and of course the bubblers are bound to make it awkward, but I can't help my curiosity and think I'll have to quench it at some point anyway..
Though i cant go wrong taking advice from the only man to spear a tuna in the uk!
I'm by no means ignoring the search for good shore/reef marks, but wrecks just spike my interest, and even if I have an all too familiar blank dive I think I'll enjoy the experience regardless.
Thanks for the input, appreciated all the same- hope to see some more epic catches from you this year!
Cheers

 

[jon penrith]

Hi Massin, I would humbly suggest you might be better rewarded putting in the hard research on the good reef/shoreline spots. Building up a solid foundation of experience over years is all part of the fun and obviously there are no shortcuts. The wrecks can be interesting but I'm not sure they are particularly worth the focus. I have dived wrecks in the past including a couple of the Devon wrecks from boat and I'd say I take more from other spot experience.
There are the obvious risks of wreck spearing/checking under the plates, but I would have to say bubblers might just take the fun right out of a whole session for you and care not for democracy, or first come first serve under the ocean!
Anchor rope cutting is much fun for them on their mass arrival at 8am!
Have a good one.

We know all about that dont we ????:vangry

 

[jon penrith]

can anyone teckkie advise regarding getting marks from wrecksite eu onto my chart plotter?I have a lowrance LMS300 greyscale with Navionics classic chart in it. If you imput marks manually into the plotter it takes forever! Dave T had advised saving the marks to memory stick and putting them through GPS babel to convert them from universal csv file to Lowrance user.I tried this but when i put the memory stick into the Lowrance it doesnt recognise the info.Any ideas?

 

[Coastie]

Sorry I've not used lowrance. I know that on a simrad you can scroll the cursor to a point on the chart with the lat and long in figures on the side and click to enter a position then name the plotted mark. Maybe try that.