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Clubs & Organizations

IUSA World Record Online Application
The IUSA has added an online application for world records to make it easier to apply. Make sure you follow all the guidelines when submitting so you're not disqualified for some  minor technical…







Blogs, Info & Discussions

Tides4Fishing
A very helpful site with tons of fishing weather-related information. Everything from tides to wind to wave heights with predictions from all over. This link is directly for the South Florida/Florida …

MiamiSkinDiver.com
A friend of a friend... If you're looking for an experienced guide in SoFlo or the Bahamas, Chris has done it all. Check out his site and decide for yourself.

SpearoBlog.com
Another blog site from a member of the San Diego Freedivers. Roman Castro maintains this site and updates it regularly, providing great pics and blogs of his and his friends' dives on the West coast i…

Performance Freediving
I recently took my second freediving course from PFI (my first with FII) and they are a top notch teaching institution. Regardless of which one you pick, take a course. You won't regret it.

SpearBlog with Cameron Kirkconnell
This is a blog site maintained by one of the world's best spearfisherman, Cameron Kirkconnell. Visit to check out his many worldwide adventures pursuing the next big fish.


Freediving Instructors International
This is the freediving instruction institute started by Martin Stepanek offering multiple levels of classes in places from Fort Lauderdale to Egypt.

Deep Blue Water, Key West FL
This site has great pictures and editorials (along with equipment reviews and tips) about freedive spearfishing in Key West.

Spearing Magazine
Check out the latest publication made just for the underwater hunter, online!


Terry Maas - Blue Water Hunting and FreeDiving
A book by one of the most acclaimed freediving photographers/writers. Makes a good coffee table book too. The chapter on Ethics and Conservation is especially interesting.






Spearguns and Gear

Koah Spearguns
I just got my first enclosed track euro gun from Koah and it's awesome. Incredibly powerful and accurate! Not to mention that they are absolutely gorgeous guns too!

Austin's Diving Center
I do just about all my gear purchasing here. They don't just sell it, they use it! Whatever you need for this hobby, you should be able to find it here.

TunaSkin.net
A couple of guys I met in the keys run this site and sell some pretty nice apparel as well as one of the nicest affordable CF pole spears I've seen. They're excellent fishermen (line as well as spear)…

HawaiianSling.net
This guy makes the most interesting hawaiian sling around. I own one myself and it's incredibly powerful! For you sling enthusiasts, I would definitely recommend checking it out.

Nautilus Spearfishing
This store is owned by one of my FII instructors. If you're looking for spearfishing equipment in South Florida, check it out.

Imersion Underwater Sports
This online store has some very affordable pricing for their products.

Mako Spearguns
This site has some great prices on accessories as well as guns.

Wong Spearguns
These guns are individually handmade by Daryl Wong. I can't afford them, but maybe you can!

Riffe Spearguns
Check out some of the best guns around. Designed and made by a World Record spearfisherman. I have quite a few of these.

Helpful Tips

Constrictor Knot
This is a link to a simple image displaying a constrictor knot.

How to tie a constrictor knot
This link will take you to a step-by-step demonstration of how to tie a constrictor knot. The knot of choice to tie off speargun slings.

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Bob Diaz - Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:29

{sigplus link=oculusr5 index=1} {/sigplus}Hot on the heels of my review of the GoPro Hero2, I felt I would be remiss if I didn't follow up with a review of the case that resolves the one (and only one in my opinion) flaw in the Hero2 design, it's underwater focus (or lack thereof) flaw. You see, as I wrote about in the Hero2 review the curved lens on the stock case creates a focus fallacy when shooting underwater. It's fairly common knowledge now, so if you want to read about it, you can check...

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Bob Diaz - Monday, 07 June 2010 08:53

This past weekend, I finally got to go to The Blue Wild dive expo. After 3 years of everybody telling me about it and not being around to get to go to it, the stars finally aligned and I was able to check it out. Unfortunately, it meant missing out on 5-10mph winds and less than 1' seas inside the reef, but there were other reasons I couldn't get out this weekend, so I figured I would take advantage to check it out and possibly win something from the raffle to boot (I won't keep you in...

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Bob Diaz - Monday, 26 July 2010 15:11

This year at The Blue Wild I was fortunate enough to meet Mike Hickey. I know of Mike from his appearances on Speargun Hunter on the Outdoor Channel with Sheri Daye. Mike was orginally a guest on the show and in later seasons participated as an underwater videographer. Mike is the USA distributor for FreeDivers ( FreeDivers USA ) spearfishing equipment. I came across his booth and after a great conversation about spearfishing, we started discussing the rising cost of spearshafts specifically....

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Bob Diaz - Saturday, 30 January 2010 08:18

I finally bit the bullet and decided to sell my No-Ka-Oi. It had gotten next to no use in the time I had owned it and it seemed a shame to have it just sit there so I Ebay'd it. With the funds from that sale, I invested in a gun that is a little more multi-purpose (at least that is how I convinced myself to get it :). I was extremely torn among 3 choices. I was considering the Euro 120, 120x and 130. After a couple of weeks of deliberation and a lot of flip-flopping, I decided on the Euro 120....

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Bob Diaz - Wednesday, 08 February 2012 16:32

{sigplus link=goprohero2 index=1} {/sigplus}I finally jumped on the HD bandwagon and bought myself a Hero2 HD digital camera by GoPro. These little beauties have been around for quite a while now so hearing about them isn't exactly news. But since I finally got around to purchasing one for myself and it happens to be that the Hero2 is the biggest leap in performance that they've given these cameras since their launch, I figured I would put in my 2 cents worth.

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Bob Diaz - Tuesday, 06 May 2014 02:55

After trying and being disappointed by the Omer Zero Cubed mask last year, I picked up a couple of other masks ( Mares Star and Sporasub Mystic ) that fit fairly well and did not disappoint, but were not the perfect fit I've been looking for in a low volume freediving mask so I didn't feel overly compelled to write a spearview about them. In defense of these masks, they are both low volume masks that are relatively inexpensive so for the money they are great purchases. Of these two, the...

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Bob Diaz - Monday, 14 July 2014 17:00

Wind Seas Viz Temp 5-10 SSE 1-3' 25-55' 85F Many times I get asked the question, "How many fish have you lost to sharks?" and I always find it interesting how people that don't dive or spearfish frequently automatically associate what we do with sharks and attacks and how they typically believe that these are some kind of single threat. The truth is that although I have been buzzed by sharks and even surrrounded by sharks, historically, I have lost countless fish to barracuda while losses to...

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Bob Diaz - Tuesday, 05 August 2008 01:16

Winds: 10-15 SE Seas: 2-4 feet (sloppy) Surf Temp: +/- 80F Viz: 25-60 feet Saturday was pretty much a wash for me due to the fact that I had to pull an all nighter on Friday and didn't get to show up on Saturday until about 3:30 in the afternoon. But after downing 6 or 7 beers and laying down early to get a full night's rest that night, I hoped Sunday was the beginning of a better weekend. Unfortunately, I was wrong, my brother-in-law was sick with a flu so it made it a little hard to get him...

SpearBlog 2011

Bob Diaz - Monday, 09 May 2011 00:05

This past Saturday we decided to take the boat out one last time in Miami before the summer started (and along with it my main diving season in the Keys). My nephew decided to come along with us for his first ride on the boat so I figured we might be able to get in a dive along with another family day at Boca Chita. My nephew had never been to this nice island in the middle of Biscayne Bay (I confess, I hadn't been there before this past winter either) so it was nice to have him experience it...

SpearBlog 2009

Bob Diaz - Monday, 15 June 2009 01:00

Seas: 1-2 feet Winds: 5-10 S Temp: 82 F (drastic thermal clines) Viz: 25-30 feet Saturday had us up well before dawn as we decided to go out for dolphin first thing with the promise of extremely calm seas and next to no wind for a good part of the day. We were loaded up and on our way out of the marina just as the sun was rising. With 1-2 foot seas as far as the eye could see, we made excellent time heading out into the blue water. We decided to go out in our own boat because the seas were so...

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Bob Diaz - Monday, 13 June 2005 15:04

Winds: 15-25 East Seas: 2-4 Surf Temp: 82F Viz: 10-20 feet The weather just did not want to cooperate this weekend at all. Tropical Storm Arlene was wreaking havoc in the Gulf and we were feeling the peripheral effects in the keys as well. We dove in spite of the weather, but weren't able to take anywhere near our regular catch.

SpearBlog 2004

Bob Diaz - Monday, 31 May 2004 15:00

Winds: 5-10 variable (except for Monday) Seas: 1-2 feet Surf Temp: +/- 85F Viz: 15-25 feet Definitely better than our typical Memorial Day weekend weather. While Memorial Day is usually a pretty rainy weekend, this year the rainfall was confined to inland showers, and left us pretty much alone. The viz wasn't what we would have liked, but at least the weather was agreeable.

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