Kayak diving? Kayak recommendation?

[dkramer]

I have the Cobra Fish/Dive & love it. It will carry up to 600 lbs, has plenty of inside storage space & is very stable.

 

[danvolker]

I used to use a 19 foot racing surfski to freedive the 60 foot deep Breakers Reef...maybe 2 miles out.... Paddle out at about 6 mph is easy enough pace with it.....the best part of the surfski though, was the time I was freediving on Horsehoe reef and a huge storm came up while we were freediving...in the 2nd hour or so.... the seas went from flat to huge in less than a half hour. By the time we had decided to quit freediving, we had 6 foot seas and occaisional 8's....and growing...Rain was hitting so hard it we had seen it hitting the surface when we were underwater--it looked like machine gun bullets peppering everything.

For the scupper pros ( 4 of them), they handled the big waves, but it was tough for them, and very slow going....
For me...it was no harder than flat conditions, and in fact easier, because I could run down the face of each wave and surf it for a while before the wave broke up.... Blasting in to shore took no time....I was a little concerned by the HUGE breakers I had to run over to get to the beach....but this was just timing when to take off and ride one in....and then keeping the foot pedal activated rudder tracking the kayak fairly close to straight....30 degree turns are OK..any more and you would risk the rudder coming out of the water and then the boat going sideways in a monster wave...and then getting "churned"....
At the last moment, you get off the boat so you dont have your weight on it hitting the beach for a high speed impact....

 

[Peter_C]

A single seat kayak, over 13ft, fairly narrow for speed, and of course with a tank well in the back should do the trick. Rig it with tag lines, and straps for your gear. I prefer a hatch in the front and a hatch between my legs for storage.