wow!

[pinoycatfish]

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fellow spearos i saw this great video last night. if anyone know any videos similar to this please post the url. thanx hope you all enjoy the video. this video also shows us that it`s not the arrow but the indian.

 

[azapa]

great video. how does he equalize his goggles?

 

[pinoycatfish]

@azapa, that i don`t know. here in the Philippines most divers wear goggles. a asked a local diver how he deals with the pressure he said that by pinching his nose(valsava) he equalizes his ears and his goggles. air passes trough his tear ducts that equalizes his goggles i`m not 100% sure if it is true. i own one pair of wooden goggles and have used it the only way i can see clearly past 10 feet is by closing one eye.

 

[devondave]

That could be it, some people (me) can blow air through the tear ducts.

 

[Fondueset]

That would be handy!

 

[octopus]

I wonder why he walks over to the fish?

 

[spaghetti]

I wonder why he walks over to the fish?

Not very stealthy. His methods contradict everything "orthodox" in UW hunting technique as we know it, but at the end of the day a fish is caught so what we do talk for? Horses for courses. And for sure the guy has a superb aquaticity. He's beyond human. In one word: WOW!

Re walking underwater: reminds to me of this amazing italian navy raiders pic (and you can be sure they know right what they're doing):

 

[devondave]

That would be handy!

For me it's just a pain, if I don't shut my eyes when equalising, air gets wasted filling an already equalised mask.
Never tried with goggles but it should work, not sure how deep though.

 

[octopus]

I would not mind giving him some gear.
If anyone of deeperblue members ever goes that way, can certainly quote me back what I have just said.

 

[pinoycatfish]

there`s another vid on youtube (wooden goggles) the guy compared speedo gogggles and wooden one and he can go deeper with the wooden goggles. @devondave next time i go out (too cold right now) i will try your close eyes and equalize technique. i can`t break my minute and a half bottom time and sometimes less(????) the guy in the video can stay up to five as narrated.

 

[Pinoy Sniper]

Pinoycatfish,

Amazing video! I have dived with our local freedivers in Coron, Palawan and have observed them going to incredible depths (at least in my view) and I was using scuba during those dives. Even my boat crew will accompany me down to 40-50 feet when I am spearfishing. Thanks for sharing this video.

PS

 

[azapa]

please see this thread:
http://forums.deeperblue.com/general-freediving/89651-max-safe-depth-goggles.html

very complementary material. The tear-duct thing sounds cool as pie!

Regarding his walking over the reef, makes me cringe re-damage, but the fish probably don't get what he is or is doing (no other predator approaches them that way) so hang around enough for him to aim a shot through those googles

 

[pinoycatfish]

@Pinoy Sniper you`re welcome. i`m always on the hunt for videos like that. i`m still trying to save money for an underwater cam (prefferably cheap) to document local freedivers here in Camarines Sur. i have friends who can go down to depths of up to 90 feet or something. one of them can even go deeper (R.I.P.) alcohol is the culprit. they do it using homemade gear from mask to fins to dive fins (yapak: local fins made of plywood) will soon post gear they use, too cold to dive here right now. take care everybody

 

[azapa]

would live to see that local gear!! please take some pictures of each piece pf equipment and post. It's an important task documenting these techniques before they modernize too much.

 

[jeremyang01]

hi all

im from the Philippines too. i happen to come across this local spearo while freediving one day and take a few snap shots of his gear...



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. i`m still trying to save money for an underwater cam (prefferably cheap) to document local freedivers here in Camarines Sur.

i suggest getting a cheap plastic pouch to put your handy cam in(thus making it waterproof)...its very cheap compared to camera housings that are only good for one camera... try googling dicapac. thats the one i used to take these photos..

Jer

 

[trux]

... they do it using homemade gear from mask to fins to dive fins (yapak: local fins made of plywood) will soon post gear they use

Yes, please do! I'll be glad to add the plywood fins to my virtual collection of unusual fins.

 

[jeremyang01]

here is his stringer by the way...he got tiny fish...but then again sad to say there arent many fish left in this particular reef...



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[azapa]

not a bad stringer of fish. Do you have any shots of the speargun? it looks like the bands are made of layers of tire inner tube rubber. I wonder if there is a local artesanal maker of these guns or if each diver makes his own?

 

[jeremyang01]

not a bad stringer of fish. Do you have any shots of the speargun? it looks like the bands are made of layers of tire inner tube rubber. I wonder if there is a local artesanal maker of these guns or if each diver makes his own?

thats the best shots i have...as for the bands, you are actually right!...in the fishing village near this area, most fishermen know how to make their own gun, but the real veterans are the village elders, its usually the case with rural fishing villages allover the country...the guns cost P600 about $13
and a friend said that was overpriced...

Jer

 

[pinoycatfish]

jeremy,

thanx for suggesting the pouch thingy. still too cold to go out right now. hopefully next week i will be able to post more pictures. take care