So pumped to see a Dan Mann video! I am spearo video watching junkie, but your videos are the only ones I watch start to finish. If you ever head state side to south east Florida, do not hesitate to reach out!
17 degrees sounds nice and warm! Very pretty place to dive. Love red mullet. Hoping to see some this summer down under! Beautiful cookup mate. All looks like ripper fish.
Hi Dan! Just wanted to say i love the videos, i have watched every video on your channel, and i ended up buying my first freediving equipment a few years back because of it! Super thrilled to be part of the spearo community, i've been to spearfishing festivals, and participated in diving for trash in my local city, so many cool dives that all started with me being inspired by your videos (: Thanks for doing what you do and sharing your stories!
Stupendo! Great to see you again Daniel. Wonderful video with the exception of that bugger that slipped of your shaft. Absolutely detest that feeling. Love Sardegna though I've yet to visit. Corsica was an absolute blast though. Malta was fenomenal as well but I'm talking late 70's. Beautiful feast at the end and much deserved . Cheers Mate!
A great video Daniel! I’m hoping to get down to Sardinia this summer. I compliment you on your music selection and the way it enhances the video without upstaging the content. Great job as always!
Nice Daniel, you are getting better and better at spearfishing but mostly at cooking!!! Learning skillz from the Mediterranean. Thanks for sharing your videos, they are amazingly edited 🙏
Great video🙂 Beautiful surroundings you guys were in. Too bad you lost that one fish. Everything seemed to be going well. Then out of the blue. Gone! It happens so fast. But all in all. You still had a good catch. And some nice dives. But! 17 degrees in the water. That is pure luxury for certain people in this world😅
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 17°C is amazing for England a lot of the time but when you’re not prepared for it and expecting 25°C you realise quickly that you’ve brought the wrong wetsuit for the job 🥶
@DanielMann I agree. It quickly gets a bit chilly in that context. Speaking of cold. The next dive up here in the north (Norway) will probably be chilly. Probably have to make some sacrifices for the good visibility in the water these days. A Christmas dive🎅🤿 Keep up the good work👌
I had a week in the Arctic last month. Was totally fine in a 9.5mm jacket and 7mm pants. Water was only 7-8°C so not too bad really. Enjoy the dives and merry Christmas!
@@DanielMann Winter diving is cold, about 5-6° in the water here now, but beautiful in its own way. Rarely regret a winter dive. Hope we get to see some video from your trip last month🤿📸 Merry Christmas🎅
Of course fish in the Mediterranean tastes better you're kind of doing a little vacation. Yes you probably went there for work. But now you're done with that. You can taking a few days for yourself. Great to see you back making videos. I love watching your Channel😊
Ciao Daniel benvenuto in Sardegna la nostra terra sacra dal mare unico nel mondo. Mi fa piacere che hai potuto conoscere Carlo la vostra guida, un mio amico pesca sub, spero che vi sarete divertiti tanto in Sardegna e vi siete goduti la vostra bellissima e magica vacanza. Buon mare Frank from Sardegna............😉🤘
Mediterranean Sea center of the world.. Mediterranean diet..the best.. Mediterranean fish, the most tasty.. A blessed place to live.. Greece, Italy, Spain, South France.. Top places to live.. The people, the culture, the history..the food.. No competition..
Dived off Cape Town waters winter and summer using a light neoprene suit and sometimes when the water was cold and entered via the neck the first minute or two froze you down to your ankles ( I’m being polite ) but not long and the body warmed it up. I only did spear fishing a couple of times but more crayfish and abalone and Arikrik a large periwinkle style shellfish and of course sea urchin and an occasional octopus. I tried to stay away from bloodied waters because of the GW in the area which would be attracted. Here in Spain where i now live i dived off Cabo de Palos and on the rocky coast off Torrevieja unfortunately this sport that I love is beyond my capabilities now since two hip replacements and muscular dystrophy but love watching these movies and stories that go with it. Enjoy it to the fullest as one never know what’s around the corner.
Your diving my spot! I am building a house in the countryside in Alghero. Keep your eyes up occasionally when diving there, you never know what's going to swim by....
Another Great video, I have looked around Europe for spearfishing charters but found it difficult. Did one in Mexico that was poor, focused on giving a non Spearo the experience
17°C is bathwater in South Africa. If we want to brave the cold, then you must dive the west coast of South Africa in the Atlantic ocean for good fish and rock lobster. That side the water is 13°C and below for almost 80% of the year and some days it even goes sub 10°C. 5mm wetsuit is a standard, but it seems to be perfectly fine in these cold waters. Love the video. Crazy to see the depths you guys manage to get down to for those great fish. Those depths I wouldn't manage in my best shape. 😂
I’ve no problems in 17°C water as long as I’m prepared and not in 3mm pants and a 5mm jacket! Most of what we dive in the U.K. is 8-15°C a lot of the year and I’m in a 7mm. Norway and other Arctic adventures that are 1-8°C water temp I normally opt for my 9.5mm jacket and 7mm pants.
@DanielMann I would never want to be diving in Arctic waters with those temperatures. Cold is cold, those waters are just crazy cold. Would rather then catch my fish with a rod and line. 😅
Talking about nightmares Daniel, in 97 in Malta I was on my IDC and being there for 2 weeks we got to chat to the owner he took us down to the hotel basement. A picture of him as a lad helping to pull a great white off a boat on the same jetty we were using...
@@DanielMann this was 97 and he was 55 According to him they females followed the tuna and gave birth there got the young feeding then moved on... One lad as we surfaced on a night dive started screaming as I had turned my torch off a while before and grabbed his calf lol
@@101Bodhi My days of teaching diving, guiding day and liver board guiding and teaching in Egypt Mozambique Oz UK are done! 100m Trimix was the last on the list which was the best way around as the RMV was very good.
Gutted!!! But that's not uncommon to lose an orata that way. Their flesh is so tender and their reaction is powerful if they are not stoned by the shot. Anyway, it's always such a joy to see your videos man. I am Sardinian living abroad and that coast between Capo Caccia and Porto Ferro is my home turf. In over 20 years of spearfishing in those waters I have never experienced such low temperatures like this year. I speared in that area a few times last July and the water temperature at ten meters depth was always between 19 and 21 degrees, freezing! Hope you enjoyed that Renosu Bianco, it's a lovely wine and makes it a glorious combo with red mallot and corvina😍
Grazie Emidio! Such a beautiful place to travel to and dive. 19-21°C is still quite cold. I was literally in Peloponnesus the day before with 29°C water 😳
Watching the gilthead seabream the way you were trying to get it closer i immediately understood that that one got away, you should have not started to get up but go straight to her and take it in your hands, its a comon mistake that to many of us do. The video was beautiful like always.
I love your videos welcome back man .. since diving and spearing Is your thing you can’t not come to the red sea it would be my pleasure to invite you to Saudi Arabia trust me it’s paradise sea bottoms , corals and fishing heaven.. please let me know if you ever want to visit it would be my and saudi people pleasure to have you here anytime
Spearfishing in Sardinia every year and knowing how rarely you see TWO large Orate at a shotable distance and then having it tear off....phuuu, my heart, my heart!!!
When you lose a fish like that and you know it's down there but it's going to die in some hole...one of the worst feelings. I recently lost a big bass same way.
Great to see you back Dan! Question - when you said Corvina... these look like Corb/ Brown Meagre in the water? Are they all the same. When you are holding them up and you say a couple of Corvina the two fish look different (to me?) and the one you cook doesn't look like a Brown Meagre. Cheers. Al.
Corvina is the Italian name for them which I normally go by mostly. They are all the same fish in this video, sometimes they can vary in darkness a bit. Also the one I cooked was scaled which changes the look a bit too.
there is only one rule while spearing a Gilt head bream in the Mediterranean ((GRAP THE FISH THEN ASCEND)) im crying :'''''(((( please never ascend while the fish is on the spear not in ur hands PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE.....also very happy to see you posting again ^_^ peace and love from Alexandria Egypt
Have you ever come to SA to dive Dan? Think you'd have a pretty good time. I started spearing in Greece, and what I would call a trophy there, I pass on 50 times each dive here.
Would love to dive SA sometime. Lots of cool endemic species like copper steenbras, poenskop, eel skin rock cod. I’m from Australia so the diving is similar to SA but I get more of a buzz in Greece than in Australia when I shot a 5kg fish.
@DanielMann fair enough man. I get you, size isn't the end all. I must say, it requires more skill over in the med to get a good fish. It's just completely different here to over there. Way more life, but the smart fish are still hard to get close to and the definition of "good fish" changes. Anyway, it's worth putting on the dive list! All the best man
@ yeah also it would have tired the fish even more and you would probaly still have it attached to the spear, so that you could have shot him twice and secure it, but you know it’s just my pov about this, if I was there I’d probably do the same you did
Once I almost drowned myself by tying a gun to myself and shooting a grouper in the rocks. But what I hate most is when an arrow gets stuck in a stone and you have to pull it out.
Down in the Western Cape 17 degrees is warm for us! Haha but would still not jump in with anything below 5mm. Great video! Is it just me or does fish life in the Med seem rather sparse? Asking for interest's sake as I have never dived there personally
Much less fish than other places in the world. Geographically it is almost a lake and doesn’t get the nutrients flowing through it like the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.
Hello Daniel and all speros quick question for you all about Garmin descent g1, i am thinking of buying it as a dive watch, daily and most importantly to mark my spots in water and navigate to them, anyone used it so far? Would you guys recommend it for this purpose?
I've never used one but some friends find the marking of spots a bit difficult because the watch has to be out of the water fully to pick up satellites. I just use a handheld GPS on my float.
It does hurt when you loose a beautiful orata. I lost one of about 8Kgs or more, shot in the back, on a rock it leverage the spear off......I felt literally sick!!!!!!! PS Daniel could get (If not too much bother ) a photo of you with autograph for the spearfishing club here in Tauranga? I send the address anyhow: Mario Bertora 53 Nautilus drive , Papamoa. Tauranga. New Zealand. Also greetings from Jackson.
pretty straightforward process. Pass a physical and psychological evaluation at your local doctors', get a certificate from them, purchase insurance for the gear and activity, present both documents to the local recreational fishing authorities, get a license. A lot of this can be done online. good luck!
Shot was made behind head, above spine. That is very soft area and fish was strong. Whole shaft went on other side and that was good. Only option was to completely release line and go up. Orata would most likely swim in circules on go under rock. In both cases it would stay on line. It would escape in case it swims stong in only one direction. In next dive to take shaft first, so fish remain far from it. You were pulling it too much and too close. When it was near you orata was very scared and gave everything it could to swim away.
Uh man, watching you loose that orata was painful to watch... and it was almost obvious you're about to loose it - perhaps if you just left it there and went back with another gun... uh... well, there will be other ones :)
Do you fellas tie your speared fish to your waist? I'm from South Australia and I couldn't imagine tying speared fish to my body, it makes me think you are asking to be attacked by a shark/sharks
No sharks in the med to worry about. Common practise there. Likewise, I’d never tie fish to myself when diving in Brisbane. I don’t even like to string them on a float, straight into the boat.
Having grown up spearing in the Med, can only say that by comparison to other places I've been, marine life is apocalyptically sparse and too small to warrant shooting.
Fish has no contact with the foil because I used parchment paper. No different to every Italian restaurant in the world using huge aluminium pans for pasta.
The spearfishing there is very poor, those fish that were caught look like Chub a fish here in the US that we call a junk fish. The place looks decimated, this is what over fishing looks like
@@DanielMann Yes it's relative, but its like going snow skiing little to no snow. If you are having fun cheers to you, it's better than staring at your cell phone.
So pumped to see a Dan Mann video! I am spearo video watching junkie, but your videos are the only ones I watch start to finish. If you ever head state side to south east Florida, do not hesitate to reach out!
Appreciate that man!
So glad to see you post again mate, already looking forward to the next upload for whenever it pops up!
@@Max-lf4br thank you! May or may not involve a giant flatfish…
I didn't see this vid post👌 what a beautiful place to dive you guys are lucky !!!
Can't wait to get home and watch this, it's been a while Daniel!
Hope it lives up to expectations Tom!
@DanielMann it did thank you. Really enjoyed it. Food looked superb.
FINALY a new vid from Daniel 🎉
17 degrees sounds nice and warm!
Very pretty place to dive. Love red mullet. Hoping to see some this summer down under!
Beautiful cookup mate. All looks like ripper fish.
Awesome Video! Perfect Sunday afternoon entertainment! Thanks 🤩
Cheers Ben!
Hi Dan!
Just wanted to say i love the videos, i have watched every video on your channel, and i ended up buying my first freediving equipment a few years back because of it! Super thrilled to be part of the spearo community, i've been to spearfishing festivals, and participated in diving for trash in my local city, so many cool dives that all started with me being inspired by your videos (:
Thanks for doing what you do and sharing your stories!
Love hearing stories like this! Thanks for sharing and enjoy the journey 👌
As you’re pulling it in, heart breaking! What a beautiful place to dive!
I still wake up in cold sweats about it 😢
Awesome video 😊 Enjoyed it very much. Thank you so much.
Cheers Daniel. Love the content. Appreciate you putting it out there man. Keep it up! Water looks chilly af
Thank you!
Stupendo! Great to see you again Daniel. Wonderful video with the exception of that bugger that slipped of your shaft. Absolutely detest that feeling. Love Sardegna though I've yet to visit. Corsica was an absolute blast though. Malta was fenomenal as well but I'm talking late 70's. Beautiful feast at the end and much deserved .
Cheers Mate!
Cheers Mark! Corsica is also beautiful but you can’t shoot groupers there being French waters so I prefer Sardegna 🤣
A great video Daniel! I’m hoping to get down to Sardinia this summer. I compliment you on your music selection and the way it enhances the video without upstaging the content. Great job as always!
Cheers Ken!
thanks for the effort you put into your videos
So good to have you back on here mate! Another banger video! Good on ya!
Cheers Russell!
Nice Daniel, you are getting better and better at spearfishing but mostly at cooking!!! Learning skillz from the Mediterranean. Thanks for sharing your videos, they are amazingly edited 🙏
Great video! Loved it
Happy seeing you posting again.
What a joy to have this come up in my suggestion feed during lunch 😊 Heartbreaking loss of the gilty 😢
Ciao Kevin 👍🏻
Thanks KD, still giving me the odd cold sweat in the night 😴
Great video🙂 Beautiful surroundings you guys were in. Too bad you lost that one fish. Everything seemed to be going well. Then out of the blue. Gone! It happens so fast. But all in all. You still had a good catch. And some nice dives. But! 17 degrees in the water. That is pure luxury for certain people in this world😅
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 17°C is amazing for England a lot of the time but when you’re not prepared for it and expecting 25°C you realise quickly that you’ve brought the wrong wetsuit for the job 🥶
@DanielMann I agree. It quickly gets a bit chilly in that context. Speaking of cold. The next dive up here in the north (Norway) will probably be chilly. Probably have to make some sacrifices for the good visibility in the water these days. A Christmas dive🎅🤿 Keep up the good work👌
I had a week in the Arctic last month. Was totally fine in a 9.5mm jacket and 7mm pants. Water was only 7-8°C so not too bad really. Enjoy the dives and merry Christmas!
@@DanielMann Winter diving is cold, about 5-6° in the water here now, but beautiful in its own way. Rarely regret a winter dive. Hope we get to see some video from your trip last month🤿📸 Merry Christmas🎅
Thanks Daniel .. great footage of your adventure
Glad you enjoyed it Mark!
All you Aussies are nuts in a nice way. Bloody good to see! Krakee me Sheila just out fished me!
Of course fish in the Mediterranean tastes better you're kind of doing a little vacation. Yes you probably went there for work. But now you're done with that. You can taking a few days for yourself. Great to see you back making videos. I love watching your Channel😊
Ciao Daniel benvenuto in Sardegna la nostra terra sacra dal mare unico nel mondo. Mi fa piacere che hai potuto conoscere Carlo la vostra guida, un mio amico pesca sub, spero che vi sarete divertiti tanto in Sardegna e vi siete goduti la vostra bellissima e magica vacanza. Buon mare Frank from Sardegna............😉🤘
Great video 🤘🏻
Because of you a I hace mi Orca V 115. Incredibile speargun. I used it 2 times and got 2 incredible fish. Regards from Venezuela
Great bro💪🏿
17 Degrees? Sounds like Summer in Tasmania ;) I had a dive on the weekend and my suit broke at the zip.. needless to say it was a "cool" few hours
Wetsuits without zips are way better and keeps you warmer than the ones with zip
The condition was very difficult, after a strong mistral storm.. the fishes disappears in this conditions
17°C is pretty normal for summer in the UK. It’s not a problem when you’ve got the right wetsuit but this was way too thin.
Mediterranean Sea center of the world..
Mediterranean diet..the best..
Mediterranean fish, the most tasty..
A blessed place to live..
Greece, Italy, Spain, South France..
Top places to live..
The people, the culture, the history..the food..
No competition..
Agreed!
Nice video! Corvinas have two small white ''stones'' in their head. A nice souvenir to remember a very tasteful fish!!
I’ve kept them from my biggest ones. In Australia we get a fish called mulloway and the otoliths are the size of your thumb!
Love the mullet, sad for the Dorada, great place for spear and free diving, thanks.
Spearfishing in sardinia gave me nightmares
Thank you for sharing video
Thats Heart Breaking Man😅. For us its really hard to go to sleep😂
Thanks Danny for sharing the video
I’ve been diving off the coast of Italy by Mount creció and mannnn was it amazing. You can see like a million meters
Dived off Cape Town waters winter and summer using a light neoprene suit and sometimes when the water was cold and entered via the neck the first minute or two froze you down to your ankles ( I’m being polite ) but not long and the body warmed it up. I only did spear fishing a couple of times but more crayfish and abalone and Arikrik a large periwinkle style shellfish and of course sea urchin and an occasional octopus. I tried to stay away from bloodied waters because of the GW in the area which would be attracted. Here in Spain where i now live i dived off Cabo de Palos and on the rocky coast off Torrevieja unfortunately this sport that I love is beyond my capabilities now since two hip replacements and muscular dystrophy but love watching these movies and stories that go with it. Enjoy it to the fullest as one never know what’s around the corner.
Great day
Well done Carlos
Water Temp is dropping in 50's here in NW Florida but it is finally clear
7ml suit time
Cold and clean is the dream!
Your diving my spot! I am building a house in the countryside in Alghero. Keep your eyes up occasionally when diving there, you never know what's going to swim by....
Porto Conte, what a place! Good on you mate, bravo!
Beautiful part of the world, can’t wait to go back one day.
Another Great video, I have looked around Europe for spearfishing charters but found it difficult.
Did one in Mexico that was poor, focused on giving a non Spearo the experience
Ah that’s a shame. If you’re ever back in Europe I’d highly recommend Carlo in Sardinia.
17°C is bathwater in South Africa. If we want to brave the cold, then you must dive the west coast of South Africa in the Atlantic ocean for good fish and rock lobster. That side the water is 13°C and below for almost 80% of the year and some days it even goes sub 10°C. 5mm wetsuit is a standard, but it seems to be perfectly fine in these cold waters.
Love the video. Crazy to see the depths you guys manage to get down to for those great fish. Those depths I wouldn't manage in my best shape. 😂
I’ve no problems in 17°C water as long as I’m prepared and not in 3mm pants and a 5mm jacket! Most of what we dive in the U.K. is 8-15°C a lot of the year and I’m in a 7mm. Norway and other Arctic adventures that are 1-8°C water temp I normally opt for my 9.5mm jacket and 7mm pants.
@DanielMann I would never want to be diving in Arctic waters with those temperatures. Cold is cold, those waters are just crazy cold. Would rather then catch my fish with a rod and line. 😅
It’s all fine if you wear the right wetsuit!
Talking about nightmares Daniel, in 97 in Malta I was on my IDC and being there for 2 weeks we got to chat to the owner he took us down to the hotel basement. A picture of him as a lad helping to pull a great white off a boat on the same jetty we were using...
I’ve heard about the great whites in Malta. Not been around for a long time though.
@@DanielMann this was 97 and he was 55
According to him they females followed the tuna and gave birth there got the young feeding then moved on...
One lad as we surfaced on a night dive started screaming as I had turned my torch off a while before and grabbed his calf lol
Come dive around Cape town with me. There are plenty great whites around
@@101Bodhi My days of teaching diving, guiding day and liver board guiding and teaching in Egypt Mozambique Oz UK are done! 100m Trimix was the last on the list which was the best way around as the RMV was very good.
Gutted!!! But that's not uncommon to lose an orata that way. Their flesh is so tender and their reaction is powerful if they are not stoned by the shot. Anyway, it's always such a joy to see your videos man. I am Sardinian living abroad and that coast between Capo Caccia and Porto Ferro is my home turf. In over 20 years of spearfishing in those waters I have never experienced such low temperatures like this year. I speared in that area a few times last July and the water temperature at ten meters depth was always between 19 and 21 degrees, freezing!
Hope you enjoyed that Renosu Bianco, it's a lovely wine and makes it a glorious combo with red mallot and corvina😍
Grazie Emidio! Such a beautiful place to travel to and dive. 19-21°C is still quite cold. I was literally in Peloponnesus the day before with 29°C water 😳
@ 29 degrees wow! No wonder those seas are full of lion fish and tropical species
Good vidéo 👍
Thank you!
17 Degrees is a lovely summer dive here in South Africa 🤣
@@LostwithPhilip not for us 😆
Watching the gilthead seabream the way you were trying to get it closer i immediately understood that that one got away, you should have not started to get up but go straight to her and take it in your hands, its a comon mistake that to many of us do. The video was beautiful like always.
Next time! It was a longer dive for me and I was a bit cold so didn’t have all the breath hold I needed. Lesson learned.
I see your'e also a red mullet enjoyer, a man of culture.
The taste buds don’t lie!
I love your videos welcome back man .. since diving and spearing Is your thing you can’t not come to the red sea it would be my pleasure to invite you to Saudi Arabia trust me it’s paradise sea bottoms , corals and fishing heaven.. please let me know if you ever want to visit it would be my and saudi people pleasure to have you here anytime
Spearfishing in Sardinia every year and knowing how rarely you see TWO large Orate at a shotable distance and then having it tear off....phuuu, my heart, my heart!!!
Still haunts me to this day 😢
Se la gente evitasse di pescare di frodo c'è ma sarebbe di pesce
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Bad luck for sea bream …
Nice video Daniel ….
Next time!
Nice to see the real thing. And to you in Spanish, ' Greato Jobo Bravo Diverso." Sorry I'm an Okey
When you lose a fish like that and you know it's down there but it's going to die in some hole...one of the worst feelings. I recently lost a big bass same way.
I see a DM video, I like. That orada slip was heartbreaking.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It all looked pretty fished out, maybe give the area a rest for a while.
"one of the most memorable dives of my life"
How the mighty have fallen.
Indeed, indeed!
Daniel, please spearfish in Mallorca. I have no doubt you would absolutely love the Balearic Islands🇪🇸🌊
@@guilhermefreitas425 I visited Mallorca for the first time this year for a holiday. Amazing place but I didn’t do any spearfishing.
Great to see you back Dan! Question - when you said Corvina... these look like Corb/ Brown Meagre in the water? Are they all the same. When you are holding them up and you say a couple of Corvina the two fish look different (to me?) and the one you cook doesn't look like a Brown Meagre. Cheers. Al.
Corvina is the Italian name for them which I normally go by mostly. They are all the same fish in this video, sometimes they can vary in darkness a bit. Also the one I cooked was scaled which changes the look a bit too.
there is only one rule while spearing a Gilt head bream in the Mediterranean ((GRAP THE FISH THEN ASCEND)) im crying :'''''(((( please never ascend while the fish is on the spear not in ur hands PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE.....also very happy to see you posting again ^_^ peace and love from Alexandria Egypt
Have you ever come to SA to dive Dan? Think you'd have a pretty good time.
I started spearing in Greece, and what I would call a trophy there, I pass on 50 times each dive here.
Would love to dive SA sometime. Lots of cool endemic species like copper steenbras, poenskop, eel skin rock cod. I’m from Australia so the diving is similar to SA but I get more of a buzz in Greece than in Australia when I shot a 5kg fish.
@DanielMann fair enough man. I get you, size isn't the end all.
I must say, it requires more skill over in the med to get a good fish.
It's just completely different here to over there. Way more life, but the smart fish are still hard to get close to and the definition of "good fish" changes. Anyway, it's worth putting on the dive list! All the best man
17•! Get to Africa! Today I shot my PB Rubber lips @ 5,3kg in 2m, Tofo Mozambique. More vids please. Salute
27,5 degrees 😊
Tropical!
I wonder if they release any aqua culture bred fish in the Mediterranean as they do in some countries to enhance the declining stock?
There is f all fish and you still shoot what is left...
8:10 daaamn man……..you should have opened the reel probably…unfortunate but beautiful video
I’m not sure the result would have been different but I see what you mean. Maybe it would have gone into a hole with the shaft attached.
@ yeah also it would have tired the fish even more and you would probaly still have it attached to the spear, so that you could have shot him twice and secure it, but you know it’s just my pov about this, if I was there I’d probably do the same you did
Daniel Mann post ⁉️⁉️⁉️Nature is healing
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Once I almost drowned myself by tying a gun to myself and shooting a grouper in the rocks. But what I hate most is when an arrow gets stuck in a stone and you have to pull it out.
Never tie yourself to anything!
Would love a video detailing your best fish of 2024, even if as you said, you weren't taking that much video for much of the year.
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Down in the Western Cape 17 degrees is warm for us! Haha but would still not jump in with anything below 5mm. Great video! Is it just me or does fish life in the Med seem rather sparse? Asking for interest's sake as I have never dived there personally
Much less fish than other places in the world. Geographically it is almost a lake and doesn’t get the nutrients flowing through it like the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.
Hello Daniel and all speros quick question for you all about Garmin descent g1, i am thinking of buying it as a dive watch, daily and most importantly to mark my spots in water and navigate to them, anyone used it so far? Would you guys recommend it for this purpose?
I've never used one but some friends find the marking of spots a bit difficult because the watch has to be out of the water fully to pick up satellites. I just use a handheld GPS on my float.
If you can land a fish before going up you really should 😂
We have a formation like that called the Sleeping Giant in Hamden, Connecticut USA
25m must be exhausting back to back. Big breathe ups?
For that depth my breathe up time is 3-4 times my dive time. So in this instance 4:30-6min on the surface.
It does hurt when you loose a beautiful orata. I lost one of about 8Kgs or more, shot in the back, on a rock it leverage the spear off......I felt literally sick!!!!!!!
PS Daniel could get (If not too much bother ) a photo of you with autograph for the spearfishing club here in Tauranga?
I send the address anyhow: Mario Bertora 53 Nautilus drive , Papamoa. Tauranga. New Zealand. Also greetings from Jackson.
you tried diving with 3mm pants in Sardenha in September😂😂😂
Generally we use the 3mm pant until November…. 😅
@Carlosassari Ma allora perché aveva freddo?
@ because the water was 16/17 degrees very strange for Sardinia in September and we had 3/5 mm wetsuit … for me was very cold! 😅
@@Carlosassari You're right. I was wrong. September is not winter yet in the northern hemisphere.
@ yes I’m sorry 😁I'm not explained before
If I am going to Spain. What do I need to do to get ma spearfishing liscence
pretty straightforward process. Pass a physical and psychological evaluation at your local doctors', get a certificate from them, purchase insurance for the gear and activity, present both documents to the local recreational fishing authorities, get a license. A lot of this can be done online. good luck!
I'm new to spearfishing, is it my imagination or does the med have far fewer fish than UK/Atlantic?
Correct
Yeah, it's an overfished graveyard.
Shot was made behind head, above spine. That is very soft area and fish was strong. Whole shaft went on other side and that was good. Only option was to completely release line and go up. Orata would most likely swim in circules on go under rock. In both cases it would stay on line. It would escape in case it swims stong in only one direction. In next dive to take shaft first, so fish remain far from it. You were pulling it too much and too close. When it was near you orata was very scared and gave everything it could to swim away.
What's with the audio mixing on the voice overs?
Not sure what you mean. Just recorded with a microphone and added a compressor to it in post.
Sir you may come to Pakistan and go to Charan island they have a lot of fish and views.
Complimenti per le catture peccato per la bella orata, e ottime cotture.
Grazie Mario!
That first fish was awfully small 😢
It’s a red mullet, they don’t grow very big. Sardines are small but people eat them all over the world!
@ i guess the sardines example makes sense. Take care!
I have lost a feel bream like this, I think it’s because of their shape. Really really really frustrating. I know it can be devastating sorry to see.
Few* not feel
Really difficult shot as well straight down on top. Next time.
Good fishing place but Carlo is not a good fisherman😂😂..he is a good partner to make a party..All the bestia.. Andrea
Andreeee 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 ciao bello ti abbraccio 🫂
Noooooooooo!!!
Uh man, watching you loose that orata was painful to watch... and it was almost obvious you're about to loose it - perhaps if you just left it there and went back with another gun... uh... well, there will be other ones :)
Always hard to look back a analyse what to do next time 😞
Do you fellas tie your speared fish to your waist? I'm from South Australia and I couldn't imagine tying speared fish to my body, it makes me think you are asking to be attacked by a shark/sharks
No sharks in the med to worry about. Common practise there. Likewise, I’d never tie fish to myself when diving in Brisbane. I don’t even like to string them on a float, straight into the boat.
2:30 mark I’m out
Having grown up spearing in the Med, can only say that by comparison to other places I've been, marine life is apocalyptically sparse and too small to warrant shooting.
Cooking with foil paper is a disaster for human health and also for the planet. You should try to find an alernative. Otherwise great video as usual.
Fish has no contact with the foil because I used parchment paper. No different to every Italian restaurant in the world using huge aluminium pans for pasta.
Absolutely horrible.
Killing little sardines with a speargun???
No shame?
Lord have mercy!
😢😮😊
No sardines were harmed in this video.... perhaps some fish ID books from Santa this year for you!
The spearfishing there is very poor, those fish that were caught look like Chub a fish here in the US that we call a junk fish. The place looks decimated, this is what over fishing looks like
It’s all relative. Just because something is different to ‘back home’ doesn’t mean it’s bad or junk.
@@DanielMann Yes it's relative, but its like going snow skiing little to no snow. If you are having fun cheers to you, it's better than staring at your cell phone.
@@hansgruber2509 If you need big fish to have fun you're kind of missing the point of spearfishing. Each to their own.
Looks sterile
I'll be honest EU spearfishing is depressing
@@-shaquille-9156 why ? 😁
I like you, but I hate you soo much for losing that orada 🫣😩😩😩