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[SFJoe]

originally posted by Chris Coad:

This is the bridge we were naked-jumping off. You'd leap into the lagoon, and let the current carry you under the bridge and out into the ocean. There was no net at the time, and lots of beautiful bioluminescent jellyfish.

Dang, that sounds like fun.

Except for the "tender parts snacked on by shark" bit, of course.

 

[Joe Perry]

Ah, I consider Cape Cod a totally different part of the Atlantic. The way the ocean currents move, they get a lot more diversity of sea life. Once you move past P-Town, things get more vanilla. I saw a Mako up here once. It was sick and kept flipping over. It ended up getting speared and studied as it was inside the breakwater. Other than that, harmless basking sharks, skinny blue sharks, or the typical dogfish and sand shark. Sometimes a storm will bring something neat up (or down). Ocean Sunfish, Lion's Mane Jellies, etc. No, it is the gaff and shotgun weilding lobsterman that scare me.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by scottreiner:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
Interesting, given my history of spearfishing in Hawaii, that I've never heard the term "Hawaiian sling." Is that the same as a spear with surgical tubing on the end?

in my experience of spearfishing in the bahamas, a hawaiian sling does not have surgical tubing attached to the spear. the sling refers to a wooden block with a hole drilled through. it is this wooden block that has the surgical tubing connected to it. the spear goes through the hole in the wood and enters a metal 'cup' connected to the surgical tubing. it is very effective with groupers, hog fish, trigger fish, spiny lobsters, etc in the reefs of the bahamas.

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Huh. That's an interesting contraption, but I'd probably keep dropping it if it weren't actually attached to the spear. I'm clumsy that way.

 

[Joe Perry]

I've never seen that before...

 

[Chris Coad]

No, me neither, despite having spearfished in Hawaii for a dozen years or so. The caption identifies it as a "Bahama Sling," perhaps it's a Caribbean thing?

 

[Joe Perry]

Whatever it is, I have not seen it commercially available from dive shops or dive websites. Of course, there are so many fish swarming the Caribbean that you could have a "Bahama Sling" made from legos and cotton candy and still have it bag fish. I'm jealous.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Chris Coad:

This is the bridge we were naked-jumping off. You'd leap into the lagoon, and let the current carry you under the bridge and out into the ocean. There was no net at the time, and lots of beautiful bioluminescent jellyfish.

Dang, that sounds like fun.

Except for the "tender parts snacked on by shark" bit, of course.

Happily, it was a thought that only came to light afterwards. Almost as treacherous as the "Why are you ogling my naked sister?" argument that Lisa and I somehow survived.

 

[scottreiner]

originally posted by Joe Perry:
Whatever it is, I have not seen it commercially available from dive shops or dive websites. Of course, there are so many fish swarming the Caribbean that you could have a "Bahama Sling" made from legos and cotton candy and still have it bag fish. I'm jealous.

years of over-fishing have changed the carib spearfishing scene dramatically. in the early 80s it was nirvana... in order to replicate today one has to travel far out in the out islands.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Chris Coad:

Happily, it was a thought that only came to light afterwards. Almost as treacherous as the "Why are you ogling my naked sister?" argument that Lisa and I somehow survived.

You do live dangerously.