Breahhold Personal Best for Zephyr at a depth of 1.3 m

My wife was sent in to get a timer as Zephyr was pushing for a reward again. Down he went in our pool - 30 deg C solar heated water did no chill him. I went down twice to look at him and time was ticking along well - I was impressed and Chevonne excitedly screamed 1 minute and 1 second - first time underneath the water in the pool.

Later we went to a 4 m deep pool to work on the equalization - a nice 23 to 24 deg was cold enought for him to wear his suit.
Here he learned that he need to equalize - that was perhaps all he learned and boy did a river of excuses come out. I think that the difficulty and the imposing look of water 4 m deep opened the excuse door and we got flooded.
He tried a few more times when I told him we should rather go home (my reverse psychology.
Well then teh little sister only jut 3 yrs old wanted me to jump off the 3 m diving board holding her - we went - she has balls! I got that on video.
We will go back again and try to sort out the equalization and at least close the "excuse gate" in Zephyr. I am going to have him visualize it a few time at night just before going to bed and see if he can sort it out.

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Fish Africa DVD

Some local fishermen - mostly the Alcocks who have a fishing store, Alcocks Fishing Tackle, here in PE have launched a DVD showing Eastern Cape fishing fishing - some really cool clips.
Quite a bit of the fishing is in the vicinity of the Coega Harbour - where garrick shad and leervis are most common catches. Coega harbour is now in used and the area is patrolled - authorities probably fear that a small inflatible will be packed full of nitroglycerine and rammed into a cargo vessel.

Mark's forum on SA spearoraniking has a thread going on this DVD - seem very popular. Contact Mark on news@saspearoranking.co.za

The easterlies blew all week - never before did I see such easterlies in November - they have essentially wiped out one of the best spearfishing months. Go buy the fishing DVD - it may help pass the time while the easterlies ravage the ocean.

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World Champion in Training - 5 year old dynamic apnea

"My brother; is a world champion!"

THese are the words of Enzo's brother in the Big Blue when Enzo frees the trapped diver for $10000.

They are also the words of Zephyrs little sister when I ask her how long can Zephyr stay down - she has been indoctrinated by the Big Blue.

Let's have a look see at theis sisterly proclaimed champion in action:

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Sea Conditions

As I type this post the easterly is rattling windows and ripping at trees - it's terribel during November - a splendid spearfishing month to have to see barrages of such east winds destroy the water that was repaired last week. Some divers got in during the week with good water - 10 -15 m viz and some fish about (I had some flu and was drained of vitality so remained land bound.

My fitness has slacked off but at least I had Zephyr doing some good training and cracking another PB of a 30 m underwater swim on breathhold with fins. Interesting he has duplicated the perfromance twice more then he had a bad day and was frustrated that he could not reach his former skill - at length I sexplained to him that we all have bad days and his body may have been on an internal battle against a bug or something like that... It was still a bitter pill for him to swallow!!

Personally I think he can make 40 meters but now I want to focus on getting his equalization sorted out. After that it's time to get back to sea and let him have a go at a fish.

My pool is 30 deg and the kids are loving it - me too untill I topped it up with river water and made a greenish soup - but I got that cleared up again in a few days.

I have not 4gotten about teh follow-up article on the suggested methods of preparation for competitive diving - just been very busy lately so blogging had to take a back seat.

THis weekend will probably be a chilly water dive again - good to toughen us up a bit.
I have placed an order for a pair of 7 mm trousers from Freedivers as they are bringing in 7 mm material. I look forward to being a bit more comfortable as my present trousers are a bit tight - no I am not really fattening myself up - perhaps in December.

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