Diving a wreck off West Palm w/ my Son

[dumpsterDiver]

Nicely done DD. I think that is very cool that you and your son dive to gather. Good on you, man!:cool2:

Thanks! He's been scuba diving with me since 9 yrs old I think... He can snorkel pretty well now too. This was one of his deeper dives over X-mas.

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[danvolker]

Last Sunday we had excellent conditions on the local wreck dive. Warm, clear water and little current. He's 14 yrs old now and I am pretty comfortable taking him to 90 feet.

Not the most exciting video, but the water was nice.

Video was shot with a small, two handle tray and dual lights to bring out some color.


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Nice video DD. I know I like to argue with you about lots of things, but I really do like the way you dive with your son.

 

[diveprof]

Awesome. Passing on the wonder of the underwater realm to the next generation. Beats the heck out of sitting in a tree stand with your son at 5am hoping for a deer Teaching my 12 y/o niece scuba this year.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Nice video DD. I know I like to argue with you about lots of things, but I really do like the way you dive with your son.

Thanks Dan!

 

[TSandM]

He's obviously a very competent young man, and looks as though he is having fun.

I have to laugh at myself -- I couldn't watch the video past where he is killing the fish. I mean, I EAT fish. But I couldn't watch one being killed. I think Peter has gotten to me with his accusation: "You visit them in their bedrooms and then you EAT them!" (Of course, he doesn't like fish . . . )

 

[dumpsterDiver]

He's obviously a very competent young man, and looks as though he is having fun.

I have to laugh at myself -- I couldn't watch the video past where he is killing the fish. I mean, I EAT fish. But I couldn't watch one being killed. I think Peter has gotten to me with his accusation: "You visit them in their bedrooms and then you EAT them!" (Of course, he doesn't like fish . . . )

LOL.. That is ME killing the fish. I set the camera rig down and film myself.

It is the ONLY fish we got the whole dive.. We had a few misses, but for some reason, they usually don't make it to YouTube...

By the way, pithing the fish in the brain with the spear (or knife) instantly scrambles their brain, it is lights out and they are dead. It has to be less painful them being thrown alive into a cooler on the deck of a boat.

Spearfishing is the most humane (and ecologically responsible) means to take a fish from the sea. No by-catch, no bait, no lost lead, fishing line, hooks, nets or releasing of injured and unintentionally caught fish.

 

[Zieg]

Way Cool Dumpster.

 

[danvolker]

He's obviously a very competent young man, and looks as though he is having fun.

I have to laugh at myself -- I couldn't watch the video past where he is killing the fish. I mean, I EAT fish. But I couldn't watch one being killed. I think Peter has gotten to me with his accusation: "You visit them in their bedrooms and then you EAT them!" (Of course, he doesn't like fish . . . )

I spearfished all through the late 70's, 80's and 90's up to a few years ago when I started shooting video.....After "getting" the connection that a photographer or videographer requires to capture the underwater world-- with the power it deserves, I can now sit back and remember my spearfishing days and my annoyance back then with the PADI mindset of touch and kill nothing.
We have been living and diving in a contrived culture for over a decade now. This was a form of brainwashing, where the mainstream of marketing in Diving, began connecting spearfishing and hunting with bad and evil. It was bad for tourism( in the minds of the marketers), because if you go to see Bambi, you don't want to see someone come along and shoot, then EAT, Bambi
So the James Bond culture of Thunderball and diving in the 60's, began to be re-written.

Maybe it's time we address what is really wrong about this. We have allowed the DEMA's and major marketers in diving, to infect the Divers of the world with a Cultural Sickness. What is worst about this, is it helps to create an apathy over the commercial fishing wrongs of over-harvesting, by eliminating the BEST possible alternative---harvesting your seafood yourself... Few can argue there is no more environmentally superior method to arrive at eating seafood, then for divers to hunt the seafood themselves. As soon as you buy fish at Publix, you have endorsed super-trawlers and mass overfishing, and the decimation of by-catch species. As divers, each of us are the sickest of all the fish consumers--the most villainous, because we really KNOW BETTER. We actually know how bad the netting and long lining is, and deep down, we know that if each of us shot our own fish, it would be by far the most ecologically responsible way for us to eat fish. However, the brainwashing was intensive, and few of us will even be aware of the cognitive dissonance involved in making snide comments about spearfisherman, or in buying fish at the grocery store.

As divers, this is an apathy we need to fix..this is a cognitive dissonance we need to address.
I still don't think DD should be killing baby flounders at the BHB, but his shooting of dinner on our 60 to 100 foot reefs, is much smarter and a much more responsible behavior than any of the non-spearing segment of SB represents every time they visit the grocery store to buy fish, or when they eat fish at a restaurant. As much as it pains me to say it, of all the people that read this thread, more than likely Dumpster will be the most ecologically responsible of the entire group...and those with the most abhorrence of this video, are either vegans, non-fish eaters, or they are part of the PROBLEM....!

 

[Ana]

yes!!! what Dan said

 

[Zieg]

I spearfished all through the late 70's, 80's and 90's up to a few years ago when I started shooting video.....After "getting" the connection that a photographer or videographer requires to capture the underwater world-- with the power it deserves, I can now sit back and remember my spearfishing days and my annoyance back then with the PADI mindset of touch and kill nothing.
We have been living and diving in a contrived culture for over a decade now. This was a form of brainwashing, where the mainstream of marketing in Diving, began connecting spearfishing and hunting with bad and evil. It was bad for tourism( in the minds of the marketers), because if you go to see Bambi, you don't want to see someone come along and shoot, then EAT, Bambi
So the James Bond culture of Thunderball and diving in the 60's, began to be re-written.

Maybe it's time we address what is really wrong about this. We have allowed the DEMA's and major marketers in diving, to infect the Divers of the world with a Cultural Sickness. What is worst about this, is it helps to create an apathy over the commercial fishing wrongs of over-harvesting, by eliminating the BEST possible alternative---harvesting your seafood yourself... Few can argue there is no more environmentally superior method to arrive at eating seafood, then for divers to hunt the seafood themselves. As soon as you buy fish at Publix, you have endorsed super-trawlers and mass overfishing, and the decimation of by-catch species. As divers, each of us are the sickest of all the fish consumers--the most villainous, because we really KNOW BETTER. We actually know how bad the netting and long lining is, and deep down, we know that if each of us shot our own fish, it would be by far the most ecologically responsible way for us to eat fish. However, the brainwashing was intensive, and few of us will even be aware of the cognitive dissonance involved in making snide comments about spearfisherman, or in buying fish at the grocery store.

As divers, this is an apathy we need to fix..this is a cognitive dissonance we need to address.
I still don't think DD should be killing baby flounders at the BHB, but his shooting of dinner on our 60 to 100 foot reefs, is much smarter and a much more responsible behavior than any of the non-spearing segment of SB represents every time they visit the grocery store to buy fish, or when they eat fish at a restaurant. As much as it pains me to say it, of all the people that read this thread, more than likely Dumpster will be the most ecologically responsible of the entire group...and those with the most abhorrence of this video, are either vegans, non-fish eaters, or they are part of the PROBLEM....!

Spot on Dan. I think we can also thank Jaques Cousteau demonstrating to us how to treat the ocean then condemning all spearfishing and USDivers discontinuing their spearfishing product line.