Chris Wojcik (one of the hippest cats I know) is a swimming-in-the-ocean-with-big-ass-fish/mammals type of guy, so he will probably look at this with some innate level of familiarity, but the rest of us can just look at it and be humbled to our core.
Don’t forget to click on the full-screen version, too.
All over the YouTubeo- facebooko- and blogo-spheres, people are taking about a shark, killed by a diver. The net majority opinion is that it was not a righteous kill. Check out the video and see for yourself.
The facebook page on the side of the shark has 2860 members at the time of this writing. Someone’s got some splanin’. to do.
This Squidforce writer will always hate the sin but love the sinner. However, after reading the aforementioned splanin’, this unbiased writer cannot conclude that the sinner is in fact a sinner.
Another Squidforce writer, Mike Carr, refers to Ryan McInnis a friend of the squid. Mike is solid and does not suffer kooks gladly. He would not throw around the word “friend” like indigenous Italian males throw around the words “I love you” to female undergraduates during a semester abroad in Florence. This is another reason for my respectful dissent from the majority.
One thing that I do know, everyone is sad a shark died. It is inspiring to see the outpouring of energy in the pro-shark community. Instead of channeling the energy towards blame, let the healing begin. Squidforce encourages you to discuss in the comments below how we can further educate people so that something like this doesn’t happen again. God knows we need the pageviews.
This video came in from one of my favorite brothers-in-law…”Gallactic” Glen Wenrich.
I am not sure what is going on here, and how they got hold of a live Marlin. Maybe a catch and release senario, maybe Gannet Man is really all that…I am definitely skeptical.
Any and all comments would be appreciated, as I’d like to wrastle a Marlin someday, but I’m pretty sure it’s virtually impossible.
Our friend Ryan who is regularly featured here in the form of his pod cast INSEAtv will be a guest on The Today show and the Early Show Tomorrow March 13, 2009.
According to the NY Post article, Ryan and crew were underwater hunting off the coast of Louisianna last June when a 12′ tiger shark singled Ryan out. (Maybe the shark could tell the difference between his camera and the spear guns everyone else was holding).
Ryann’s buddy and dive partner Craig Clasen had his back, and tried to deter the shark, the shark was persistent, and Craig was left with no option but to shoot the shark. Two hours, seven spears and a long knife blade later, the shark was dead. Clasen later said that he was deeply saddened by killing the shark but felt morally obligated to kill it after the first shot hit the fish in the gills.
Please read the article in the NY Post, and tune into the Early Show, and the Today Show tomorow to see the first hand account.
The kickoff event of the ASP World Championship Tour 2009 season starts on February 28th, and will finish by March 11th. Set on Queensland’s idyllic Gold Coast at the fabled “Superbank“, the Quicksilver Pro Australia is always an awesome event and according to all the buzz on the world wide web, the contestants are fired up for a win. A win on the “Goldie” is a surefire way to start the year off right and has proven to give an edge to battlers in events far beyond the Australian Leg of the tour.
Will Slater start his campaign for title # 10 with a win? You can bet the Coolie kids will have something to say about that. Will Taj do an air? Will Josh Kerr invent a new maneuver? Will Taylor Knox surf on rail?!
One thing’s for certain, the drama will be high, the surfing will be the best ever seen, and the waves will be pumping. Look for goofy footers to do their best Occy imitations and for all the regs to punt and carve with reckless abandon.
Awesome video of a deep dive. Constant weight without fins.
For those of you who don’t realize, in diving, once you swim down past the first two atmospheres or 66 feet, you don’t need to swim anymore, you just sink. This really saves effort on the way down. Getting back to the surface is another story. Niki Roderick makes it look easy breast stroking through the atmospheres.
Ryan and crew continue to raise the bar in Episode 6.
In this episode, an interview with world record freediver Martin Stepanek of Dive Fit and African Pompano spearfishing.
It’s been said that if they grew to the same size as sharks, bluefish would be the only fish in the sea. They attack bait, lures and fingers with wild abandon and when they’re feeding, it’s as though they can’t stop. (more…)
