Why spearo's prefer no spotters

[kehloken]

So in the spearing world of the East Coast and West Coast it is a bit different as the visibility is less on the west and the kelp beds are very dense on the west and that is where fish in the west. Depth has a lot to do with your spearfishing also.

Controversy is over what you think the safe way to spearfish is. I fond what this girl believes is probably the best quick version of explaining It and why some spearo's dive this way.

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/62917/

[Prowler@c]

She sounds like the next SWB candidate.
After a terrifying incident not too long ago, splitting up from my buddy is the last thing on me and my spear fishing partners minds. It is not fun to be holding your motionless best friends body on the surface praying for him to take a breath!!

[kehloken]

Actually prowler the next SWB is someone who did not do there homework in freediving and bring it to the water with them.

I see a lot of post pertaining this subject, and the difference from west coast to east coast.
Not all in either region dive the buddy system.

Here is a new thread in Cali forum.
http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=157139

[tuffstuff]

When you see what happens during a blackout and experience the relief that someone has your back. There is no controversey, after experiencing that. The only people arguing are the ones who haven't been exposed to it.

[nway93]

With the kind of diving we normally do in s. florida you need a dive buddy, weather its drifting the ledge and having 5 bulls circling the flasher or shooting the deep wrecks, it's always nice to have someone watching you're back to keep the sharks off your fish and you, dig that grouper out of the wreck, or get a second shot in a fish quick. Plus after hearing of countless blackouts and having two of my buddies come very close to blacking out themsleves i will not dive alone. Sure we push ourselves further when we know someone has our back which could cause us to blackout but you never know when its going to happen.

[laguna80]

Originally Posted by Prowler@c

She sounds like the next SWB candidate.
After a terrifying incident not too long ago, splitting up from my buddy is the last thing on me and my spear fishing partners minds. It is not fun to be holding your motionless best friends body on the surface praying for him to take a breath!!

That's what I thought too. Those lines about if she could just stay down a little bit longer and let the fish get just that much closer almost seem prophetic. Hopefully, she dives with a good partner in the future who is watching her back and she doesn't ignore her body just trying to get a fish.

[kehloken]

I really do not hear about that many SWB deaths, there are a tremendous amount of scuba deaths every month and year.

So there is two ways to look at it, doesn't really happen that often or there's been someone there to recover (spotter) but from all the recordings that I've collected in the past seven months it just doesn't happen all that often.

So people weigh there odds when they learn to Freedive. First off it's not that expensive to get started with basic equipment. When they get the time they go out, in learning whether the Internet or a book about things and then putting them into perspective.
Now you have the choice of going solo because of your schedule or finding someone to do so.

In the link that I put in from post three is where they actually get out there and trying to do the dives with somebody but the conditions just don't warranted what they thought.

It's a tough subject that is never really going to even out between solo and buddy free diving.