TyTy
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My father who is not a spear fisherman or scuba diver emailed this to me. Sorry if it is a repost, its new to me.
>OK..here we go. Heres the story on the big warsaw first.
>
> I spent the last year plotting and planning. New and better
>equipment, lots of designing and testing of everything. Finally got
>it all done, planned the trip out and we loaded down HeadHunter with
>60 tanks, 10 stage bottles, 4 O2 bottles, 400 gallons of diesel,
>3000 lbs of ice and about 5 million pounds of misc equipment.
>Along on the trip were myself, Spearten, SimplyScuba, Jazzien,
>BucketOne and the Moose. We left port Wednesday evening and
>SpearTen and I did the 425' dive around 11:00 Friday morning. It
>was a neap tide and I prayed for fish, viz and low current.
>We got to the wreck, a huge freighter that stood 50 feet high in 425
>feet. It had a great fish show on it and we all just kinda stared at
>the color screen. Kevin Bruington had made me one of his custom
>buoys (thanks Kev) and we pitched it to the wreck with 32 Lbs of lead.
>Direct hit! Great!
>SpearTen and I geared up, 5 tanks, 5 regs and all the other tech
>gear the dive required. We rolled and began the 3 minute descent.
>On a deep ocean dive like this, you never know what water
>conditions are until you descend as they can change every few feet.
>Perfect conditions!!! Perfect! The wreck came into view around 250
>feet and we touched down at 375' on the deck. With no BS, I've
>never dove in any clearer water anywhere at anytime. You could see
>150 feet plus in any direction and it was light and blue, no lights
>needed.
>There were a half dozen Warsaws in the 40-100 Lb range close to us
>when I spotted the monster facing me about 100 feet away. I got my
>bouyancy trimmed out and he came charging down the wreck towards me.
>Time began to slow down as many years of effort and dreams all came
>down to a few seconds. He went into an aggressive mode, changed
>colors and threw up his dorsal fin. Awesome. Just frigging awesome.
>I had made a couple of barbless shafts up, sharpened to a 2 inch
>long needle point. I pointed my 52 inch SS Hornet and slammed a free
>shaft into the sweet spot. OMG, I almost rolled him. He started
>shaking back and forth and I slammed shaft number two into his
>head. I swam over and grabbed him and was thinking OK now ***. We
>crashed into the wreck at 397' and I had my hands full. He was still
>moving around a little and I decided that I didn't want my 46 year
>old *** tied to this fish at this depth.
>I put a PH on my kill spike and slammed into his head. I'm not sure
>now whether it was neccessary or not, but at the time it seemed like
>the prudent thing to do. I had been planning on lift bagging him up,
>but decided to pump air into his mouth and swim him up a few feet.
>20 feet up and 10 seconds of pumped air later, he took off and I
>watched him blast towards the surface. Awesome.
>I turned and watched SpearTen slam a spear into a 73 Lb Warsaws head
>and stone it. Great shot! We were a minute under our planned bottom
>time and decided to head on up. We met Jazzien(our first support
>diver) at 170 feet and I said "Did you get him?" and he answered
>that he had watched it blast by him and it should be on the
>surface.
>Bucket came free diving down to a hundred feet (thats insane) and
>wrote out 400 LBS on my slate. We finished up our lenghtly deco as
>we watched large Wahoo swimming around us in the 84 degree water.
>Unreal.
>It took all four of the guys and a block and tackle to get the fish
>on the boat. We took some pics and headed toward some shallower
>water. Awesome.
>What an awesome dive. Theres just too few moments like this in ones
>life. I'd like to thank all the guys for their support and efforts
>to make this happen. A special thanks to Zeagle and Spearfishing
>Specialities for making the gear that made this possible.
>A final and very special thanks to my brother-in-law SpearTen, for
>all his help and work towards making this happen. It takes a lot
>of guts to roll off a perfectly good boat in 425' with 200 Lbs of
>steel strapped to your back. I owe you bro.
>OK..here we go. Heres the story on the big warsaw first.
>
> I spent the last year plotting and planning. New and better
>equipment, lots of designing and testing of everything. Finally got
>it all done, planned the trip out and we loaded down HeadHunter with
>60 tanks, 10 stage bottles, 4 O2 bottles, 400 gallons of diesel,
>3000 lbs of ice and about 5 million pounds of misc equipment.
>Along on the trip were myself, Spearten, SimplyScuba, Jazzien,
>BucketOne and the Moose. We left port Wednesday evening and
>SpearTen and I did the 425' dive around 11:00 Friday morning. It
>was a neap tide and I prayed for fish, viz and low current.
>We got to the wreck, a huge freighter that stood 50 feet high in 425
>feet. It had a great fish show on it and we all just kinda stared at
>the color screen. Kevin Bruington had made me one of his custom
>buoys (thanks Kev) and we pitched it to the wreck with 32 Lbs of lead.
>Direct hit! Great!
>SpearTen and I geared up, 5 tanks, 5 regs and all the other tech
>gear the dive required. We rolled and began the 3 minute descent.
>On a deep ocean dive like this, you never know what water
>conditions are until you descend as they can change every few feet.
>Perfect conditions!!! Perfect! The wreck came into view around 250
>feet and we touched down at 375' on the deck. With no BS, I've
>never dove in any clearer water anywhere at anytime. You could see
>150 feet plus in any direction and it was light and blue, no lights
>needed.
>There were a half dozen Warsaws in the 40-100 Lb range close to us
>when I spotted the monster facing me about 100 feet away. I got my
>bouyancy trimmed out and he came charging down the wreck towards me.
>Time began to slow down as many years of effort and dreams all came
>down to a few seconds. He went into an aggressive mode, changed
>colors and threw up his dorsal fin. Awesome. Just frigging awesome.
>I had made a couple of barbless shafts up, sharpened to a 2 inch
>long needle point. I pointed my 52 inch SS Hornet and slammed a free
>shaft into the sweet spot. OMG, I almost rolled him. He started
>shaking back and forth and I slammed shaft number two into his
>head. I swam over and grabbed him and was thinking OK now ***. We
>crashed into the wreck at 397' and I had my hands full. He was still
>moving around a little and I decided that I didn't want my 46 year
>old *** tied to this fish at this depth.
>I put a PH on my kill spike and slammed into his head. I'm not sure
>now whether it was neccessary or not, but at the time it seemed like
>the prudent thing to do. I had been planning on lift bagging him up,
>but decided to pump air into his mouth and swim him up a few feet.
>20 feet up and 10 seconds of pumped air later, he took off and I
>watched him blast towards the surface. Awesome.
>I turned and watched SpearTen slam a spear into a 73 Lb Warsaws head
>and stone it. Great shot! We were a minute under our planned bottom
>time and decided to head on up. We met Jazzien(our first support
>diver) at 170 feet and I said "Did you get him?" and he answered
>that he had watched it blast by him and it should be on the
>surface.
>Bucket came free diving down to a hundred feet (thats insane) and
>wrote out 400 LBS on my slate. We finished up our lenghtly deco as
>we watched large Wahoo swimming around us in the 84 degree water.
>Unreal.
>It took all four of the guys and a block and tackle to get the fish
>on the boat. We took some pics and headed toward some shallower
>water. Awesome.
>What an awesome dive. Theres just too few moments like this in ones
>life. I'd like to thank all the guys for their support and efforts
>to make this happen. A special thanks to Zeagle and Spearfishing
>Specialities for making the gear that made this possible.
>A final and very special thanks to my brother-in-law SpearTen, for
>all his help and work towards making this happen. It takes a lot
>of guts to roll off a perfectly good boat in 425' with 200 Lbs of
>steel strapped to your back. I owe you bro.
