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  • BloodyDecks.com

    Fishing reports, news and pictures from fisherman and areas all over.

  • FreeDive.Net

    The place to buy the original Spearfishers Bible - Bluewater Hunting and Freediving by Terry Maas

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Spearboard.com

    The World's Largest Spearfishing Diving Boating Social Media Forum

  • 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 in Southern California (I love SOCAL).

  • 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.

  • 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 Keys area.

Clubs/Organizations

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.

Regulatory

Spearguns & Other Gear

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Imersion Underwater Sports

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

  • 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!

  • Mako Spearguns

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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) and participate and sponsor fishing tournaments in FL and the Bahamas. Tell 'em Bobby from Knight's Key sent ya!

  • Wong Spearguns

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

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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 - 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 - Monday, 09 June 2014 16:50

Over the winter I looked into and purchased a couple of sets of Reef Runner Gear's fin skins. I had contemplated having my own manufactured but when I came accross these, it just didn't seem worth the hassle. You can create your own custom design for a few bucks more and although you can run into some small snags when doing so (I'll elaborate later on), Jon from Reef Runner Gear is an awesome guy to work with and he will do everything he can to make things right.

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Bob Diaz - Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:57

Back in March of 2010 I enrolled in and completed the FII Level One freediving course . I was extremely happy with the course content and the outcome (check out the SpearView ). Unfortunately for me, I'm not a professional freediver, so as with many people, life gets in the way and complicated which in turn keeps you from building a true regimen that reinforces all the good behavior learned in the course. Needless to say, I forgot some of the basics, fell back into many of my old bad habits...

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Bob Diaz - Thursday, 11 February 2010 20:57

Believe it or not my latest addition to my spearguns is not one for shooting fish (well at least not shooting to kill them). But it hopefully will help others watch online what I love to do underwater. I have made a camera mount for my Riffe Euro guns. This mount will fit on any Euro that has the reel inserts (basically all of them). It was terribly simple to make. The only fairly tricky part was putting together the actual mount screw for the camera tripod mount itself.

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Bob Diaz - Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:49

Over the 4th of July holiday I was able to break in my hawaiian sling made by HawaiianSling.net (Ray Uppstrom). I had purchased this quite some time ago in preparation for a trip to the Bahamas and I finally got to try it out in the waters around Cat Cay, South Bimini. This isn't your normal hawaiian sling. The design is completely unique and interesting in its approach compared to traditional slings. This sling is much more akin to a bow and arrow than it is to a regular sling and it looks...

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SpearBlog 2009

Bob Diaz - Monday, 07 September 2009 01:00

Seas: 2-4 feet (very sloppy) Winds: 15-25 Variable Temp: 86 F Viz: 50-60 feet We arrived Friday night to high winds and stormy skies and were worried that the weekend was getting off to a very rocky start. Unfortunately waking up the next morning to more of the same didn't exactly give us a lot of hope. We waited around most of the morning to see if the storms would finally clear up but it seemed as though the winds kept swirling with every storm front and kept the storms hanging around for a...

SpearBlog 2009

Bob Diaz - Monday, 10 August 2009 01:00

Seas: 2-4 feet Winds: 10-20 SSE Temp: 84 F Viz: 3-50 feet We decided to get in the water for some bugs on opening day since we didn't do mini season last week (actually it was the 2nd year in a row that we don't do it). Little did we know what we were in for that opening day. We headed out early to try and beat some of the spot squatters that wait for day break on the water (because you're not allowed to night dive for lobsters in the keys). We were a little surprised by the lack of boats that...

SpearBlog 2005

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 2011

Bob Diaz - Monday, 20 June 2011 16:22

Seas: 1-4 feet Winds: 10-15 S/SE Viz: 25-30 feet Temp: 84 F After last weekend and the good luck we had with finding the large mangroves, we decided early on that this weekend we would focus on doing more of the same as we talked during the week. We also knew that we only had Saturday to fish since Sunday was Father's Day and even us dads have dads, so we knew most everyone needed to depart early Sunday to spend time wth family. With only one day to dive, I was hoping to arrive early on Friday...

SpearBlog 2010

Bob Diaz - Tuesday, 01 June 2010 16:25

Seas: 1-2 feet Winds: 5-10 E Viz: 40-50 feet Temp: 80 F Well, the weather finally held up until I got down there and what weather it was this weekend! Saturday and Sunday had 5-10mph winds out of the West and a mild 1-2' seas as far as the eye could see. We only hoped that the change in the wind from the East last week to the West this week wouldn't wreak too much havoc with the fishing. We had heard that those that were dolphin fishing earlier in the week were having no luck in close and only...

SpearBlog 1999

Bob Diaz - Sunday, 07 February 2010 13:58

This story just goes to show that sometimes you get lucky, and you don't even know it until everything has happened. It was late in August, 1999. We were spearfishing a ledge that we visit from time to time. Usually we find a fair amount of grouper there. But we also know that this late in the summer, we sometimes get a little something extra... a shot at some Cubera Snapper. We don't get to see a lot of these during the peak summer months, so we make extra efforts to come here in the later...