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Old 08-09-2012, 04:53 PM   #66
MakoShark
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Re: Advice on spearfishing alone

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Originally Posted by orcawealth View Post
Ive owned the frv and have used it extensively over the last 8 months. One of the things that is left out of the conversation on the vest is that you preset when it's going to take you to the surface BEFORE you make your dives for the day. So, this takes out of the equation seeing that hogfish when you are at your limit and pushing to get it. If you do your going to pay the price of the vest inflating. As users know its a drag when you have to get out of the water re-pack the vest and repressure the bottle. It makes you stick to your predetermined dive times regardless of the size of the fish you see. Happened to me over the weekend I only want to be down a minute so i set the frv to 1:10(little bit if wiggle room) got caught up chasing something and then comes the sound you hate to hear the rush of air inflating the vest. Most freedive spearfishermman I have met are type a competitive people and the vest keeps us in check. Not to sound like a commercial for the vest but if you feel you have to dive alone get the vest.
this may be a dumb observation/question on my part, but I gotta ask if only to satisfy my own gnawing ignorance. I strictly freedive, and quite honestly and am not comfortable with diving anymore than 20 - 25 ft and mostly working the rocks somewhere. I've never spearfished alone, and have been lucky once for it, but my question is this: If you're wearing the FRV, and are alone, and you float to the surface after you experience SWB hypothetically, what then if there's no one around to see what's going on? Are you just floating on the surface in your FRV, still in a blacked-out state? Granted, you're no longer underwater, but if you're still out like like a broken light....I don't know, just saying man.
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