How I swim over a mile offshore solo for spearfishing
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- I've been getting loads of questions recently regarding my float setup for spearfishing. I've taken this setup up to 2.4km offshore without any problems. I'm not saying you need to go that far to find fish but it certainly opens up some areas to shore divers who don't have a boat. Hope you enjoy this one!
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Giving the information while swimming out into open ocean is just surreal to me. Your the goat at spearfishing content and this video proves it! Also how are you this brave? A mile out by yourself??? Swimminging the whole way???? He-Man stuff!
Thank you! I ended up 2.3km out from the shore on this dive.
@@DanielMann insane!
Because they don't have sharks like back in Australia😂
@@spearo16 We have Dogfish and Tope, don't take the piss out of our predators! 🤣😂🤣
This guy definitely has grey skull power
The effort of swimming to land, place a camera, walk out and swim back in, just in order to have that 20 second smooth transition from diving to talking on land? Gotta love it:)
Glad you appreciate the effort 🤣
I also notice and appreciate all your effort so much ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️thanks dude!!!! But about sharks, is there no risk of a big aggressive one showing up in the north sea? What then?
@skinz1234 no big risk in the U.K. Even if you do see one it’s generally okay.
@@DanielMann it is the ocean so i guess u never really know what your gonna see! U just dont think about it or whats the plan if u needa get outta dodge? :p
@@skinz1234 The camera man never dies, so as long as he has his camera and is filming he is safe from all harm.
Dan, I thought I would take the time to let you know how big of an influence you have had on my life. About 4 years ago I started watching your videos and you have taught me and made me totally obsessed with spearfishing. You are one of the biggest inspirations in my life as your videos have taught me most of what I know about the sport. I started a CZcams page a couple months ago, mostly to have as a personal diary and dive log of my experiences. Would love for you to check it out and critique my videos as I am sure there is plenty I am doing wrong. Please continue the amazing videos! Anytime you drop a video I am sure to stop what I am doing to watch and learn! Love your solo shore dive videos in the UK! So awesome!
Thanks for the very kind words 🙌 Glad you have found this amazing way of life. Videos are subjective, there is no right or wrong, as long as you have fun making them that is the most important thing.
madly underrated tuber. You not only go out and catch without assistance, but also do the cooking. Big G!
This video inspired me to do a similar trip, letting me discover many new local spearfishing spots! I used my phone for navigation (in a waterproof, floating case), and Crocs for trekking to the cliffside entry point, but otherwise our setups are pretty similar. Swimming through the open water without a visible ocean floor, and then suddenly arriving at an underwater mountain peak, offering a prime diving location, was thrilling! Provided that you pay attention to short-term current- and weather forcasts, spearfishing this way can be incredibly rewarding! Thank you once again for your inspiring videos!
Damn way too sharky and deep here for that. Awesome to see your access. As a triathlete who has done 2.4 mile+ swims, anyone who gets out and swims in open water gets my respect
The refreshing sound of ocean and got to see a hunter's skill. This is a very good content. Thank you.
Amazing Video Dan, thanks for the explanation and the kit description
Great video bro! Always giving us some good/useful info. Keep it up bro!
Thanks Johnny!
Now thats what I call dedication to what we love to do. Great catch as always😊
Thank you! Got to do what you got to do.
Seriously fantastic content man nice work!
Another great video, thanks for sharing Daniel!
Absolutely gripping, thank you!
Another classic daniel Mann upload to hold me over till summer
Not long now!
Great upload, Daniel. You’re the Mann 😉. Looking forward to the videos from Spain 🇪🇸
Thanks Anton, will be covering the world championships!
Great content, excited to keep learning and hunting
Thanks for sharing what comprises your kit out there! I especially liked the Omer anchor setup. And that's excellent visibility; I'm surprised it's so good! When next you grill, you might also try a type of powder or paste called Achiote (Also called Annato) as a wet rub. We mix it with lime juice and marinate our fillets for about a half hour, then grill them. Amazon carries it, at least here in the U.S.
Inspirational, as always.
Class video again, lots of great info there and some lovely fish as ever 👌🏴
Thanks 👍
Brillaint, thanks Daniel this was super helpful 🙌🏼🙏🏼
Glad you liked it!
This dude harder than goggins swimming there with all the creatures
No chance, Goggins is a monster!
First of all - thank you for the incredible video footages, super helpful advices and explanations and last but not least - for the tasty recipes! for which I have something you might add to your bbq - a fish gridiron! it will help you flip the fish without it sticking to the grill! Thank you Dan!
This is just amazing. Thanks for the videol
Very good video as always very instructive even for the food. Can't wait for the next video to spain.
Great video as usual Daniel, I will use some of your advices for the float. Good luck in Spain!!
Awesome! Thank you!
I marvel at your courage
Nice fishing gear master ❤️❤️❤️ safe dive always ..
Wow, what a swim out , holy cows!!! I have a float almost like the one you are using, I have been out of the game of free diving for a long time and been wanting to get back into it except i want to dive the lakes here in the mountains, your videos do motivate me for sure! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, 🔱Be safe, God speed Daniel!
Thanks Gazza! Good luck with it.
Great stuff!
Amazing content as always
Cheers!
very good video thank you very much! i have never wanted to go to uk but because of your videos i think i will go there to spearfish someday! maybe we will see us at the beach. stay stafe out there in the ocean alone buddy
There’s plenty of beautiful places in the uk mate Scotland is stunning
Solid content dude
Awesome video great guy :)
Cool setup!
Great content! Thanks for the vid!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. I spear fish from the coast and have used my boat to get out further afield. This year hasn’t been a great one for spearo weather and the bass where I live have become mostly schoolies. I can see the appeal of swimming out to marks offshore to get big fish, especially when you don’t have access to a boat. I can also see that you know what you’re doing and have some serious breath hold skills. For the benefit of others I thought it might be worth emphasising safety a bit more in videos like this, since many novices will try to emulate you. I’m also lifeboat crew and work at sea for a living, I can’t help but risk assess your operation. Swimming out that far you are really at the mercy of tides and weather. It may be worth mentioning some safety advice such as informing someone of your plan and when you intend to return. Taking with you a phone and/or vhf or at least a few flares. Having a plan if you lose your float or fog closes in. Checking the weather and tides etc.
Great fish you had there and well worth the swim out. Good luck on future dives.
I know is dangerous to dive alone, but with you it's look super easy.
That’s nuts 👍🏻
Complimenti Daniel, bellissime spigole e fondali molto pescosi.
Two things:
1. I do a lot of shoredive spearfishing, and if you don't, you might not really appreciate the athletic ability it takes to swim over a mile out and back, in strong current, and still have the energy to dive and spearfish once you're out there! Without being REALLY sure what the current is doing out there, I wouldn't start that far out if you're new to it. (I am definitely not going that far!)
2. Appreciate the explanation of your setup! I do this with a paddle board (not standing, just swimming on it like a surfboard) and I love the ability to just get up and lie on the board between dives to catch my breath sometimes. But if I had the money, I'd probably invest in something like this - it looks ideal!
Best video yet 👍
Too kind 🙌
Great stuff as usual. After reading some of these comments I think it would be nice with a video discussing diving alone. I believe it can be done safely, and many of us choose to dive alone when time allows instead of being limited by not having a dive buddy available.
Yeah agree.
Diving alone is less than ideal. However with enough experience you know your limits and what SWB/Samba feels like.
Inexperienced freedivers should never dive alone, even ultra shallow.
@@user-wh2oo4wh8v So basically you are saying if you have enough experience you can feel where is the limit before getting to close to SWB/Samba?
@Yanivkahana More that you know how to manage breath up, and not rushing for a fish.
Also, reducing bottom time over the day as I fatigue regardless of how I "feel'. Just reducing by 20% then 30% regardless of contraction counting or not.
@@user-wh2oo4wh8v Thanks for the input, very interesting.
Awesome dive footage, loved the float info as well. Thanks Daniel!
Glad it was useful!
Awesosme moments 🎉❤
That float plus a scuba diving DPV (a good one, not one of the cheap toys) to tow you along would be an interesting setup to try.
You should come down to Australia in particular my state of South Australia and do some spearo dives here. You could go over to the Eyre Peninsular, down Port Lincoln way and swim a few K's offshore there for some great spearfishing. It's alive over here, there's some large toothy critters but you'll be right mate, just keep your head on a swivel
Awesome video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
That’s a super vid with some top hunting on display 👌
Thanks mate, trying to emulate the best 😉
hey, I would love it if you did a video explaining how you identify these spots before swimming out, in fact, it would be helpful to know what I should look for terrain-wise for bass, maybe a short video showing the nautical chart view of the structure, you could edit over any names to not give away your spots. I don't know how editing works. awesome video though.
Bass live in all sorts of ground. Generally if there is a substantial amount of rock or reef you will find them. Again, navionics with the relief shading has all the information you need.
Great video as usual m8
Cheers!
I've got a huge Tusky head in the freezer with wings attached. I'm trying the Nando's marinade this week. Should be awesome.
I'm sure it will be fantastic. Just take the huge scales off the wings to get some tasty skin action.
@@DanielMann will give it a crack. Yes, their scales are like washers huge.
Man, you are the man I am moving to the Philippines, and I’m very interested in spearfishing, as I think food will be in short supply in the future
Inspiring! I am envious that you don't have to worry about sharks out there. I'm in Sydney, and if i swam that far out to spearfish, I'd probably only return as a scary news article.
Sharks do not eat humans and rarely attack. You a LOT more likely to be killed by a wild moose (via a collision wuth your car) than by a shark while swimming.
That said, while sharks do not eat humans and do not actively hunt for them - a shark may take a bite out of a human if it mistakes it for prey ( mistaking them as a seal while a person is on a surfboard, for example, from a bottom view) which is the reason for a good percent of shark attacks.
Sharks, btw, also do rarely attack out of curiosity. I believe I read somewhere that starvation is also anither trigger.
@@muhammedaasil969 The shark attack probablity stat applies to people in general, wherever they may be. If you limit your sample size to people in the water (which is the only logical way to do it), then the probabilities skyrocket, even if it's still tiny. Now I don't want to know what the probablity would be if the sample were people swimming solo, a mile offshore, in white/tiger/bull infested waters (the reason those three are considered the most dangerous is because they often DO eat people, when attacking).
@@muhammedaasil969 yeah but that stat doesn't apply the same when your study population is people swimming out at sea and towing dead fish behind them.
@@muhammedaasil969yeah you can say that all you want but if a hungry or injured white / tiger / bullshark, whitetip spots you.. you're tickets bro.
@@muhammedaasil969in Sydney recently there was a shark that attacked and ate a man close to shore while he was swimming. Was a great white aswell. Video of his torso floating on the surface went viral.
Love your videos
Cheers!
I Honestly don't know how you do this, with all the shark attack stuff getting around the web. 1:20 Your splashing around on the surface all blacked out like a seal...... Hats off to you for being so fearless in the ocean (oh and as well as the smell of blood from spearfishing). I would never do that i hope nothing happens with these kind of swims
Being an allrounder fisho with no real mastery of a particular style (including spearfishing) I really enjoy watching ‘the best’ in each category of the sport. Thanks for showing us how a master of spearfishing can do some of these things mate, I am sure there is a tonne of mistakes made over many years to have this kind of knowledge 🤙
Thank you 🙏🏻 I’m far from a master but you do learn a few things over 20 years.
Dive safe always the great ♥️
Epic stuff Dan, I've just goy myself a kayak for those longer distances. Tried it out in close yesterday and it's so good to dive from 😁🥳
Just need some more time off work and some good weather to get out to some spots now 🤞
I’ve heard of these inflatable kayaks, tempting!
@@DanielMann haha I went all out and got a fancy pedal kayak, I wanted to have a decent platform to fish off as well as dive from 😅
@@DanielMann I have an inflatable kayak, it is nice to pootle around in, but hard on the arms, especially with a headwind against the tide (Peddle ones might be v good but are generally not inflatable so appropriate transport for it is req).
Thanks for sharing your experience, techniques and gear selection. Almost (ALMOST) makes me wish I didn’t live in Florida with all the sharks… I would not be going solo a mile offshore around here lol
Once you learn how to handle sharks, it's generally pretty safe. but there's still no fucking way I'd be out there in SA with the whites.
Sharks aren't even the main risk here. Shallow water blackout is far more likely to kill you. Never spearfish or freedive alone.
Buenas piezas!
Great Vid
Thank you!
I've done this twice off the coast of Cornwall, and I'd honestly never do it again.
I now hate them floats with a passion 😂
Happy to stick to closer spots until I get a boat or ski
Great video Daniel. In Jersey (the Crown Dependency, not the USA) we use the tides to our advantage. If you jump in 2hrs before low the tide will drag you out off the SE coast. When the tide turns it pushes you back to shore. It generally means a 4-5hr dive and never gets much deeper than 4-5m but I will regularly do 4-5 km on a dive. The 12m tides do help 😏
Would love to get down there one day. Maybe the BSA can start hosting nationals there again?
lol, i just commented, the tide goes out a mile where i live.... jersey !
Think you may trigger some South Africans too🇿🇦 Nando's 😂great video as always 👍
🤣🤣🤣
I was on holiday in the EU and Decathalon have a few float options (Subea - Decathalon own brand) that are very well priced. Unfortunately not available in UK stores.
My brother my people been doing long swim like that in Cuba,Varadero beach swimming sometimes over 6km along de beach is not easy and always dangerous never do it alone that’s the one rule only the experts do it,great video be safe and good hunting.
I'll probably never do this myself, so this is great entertainment, thanks Daniel!
Yippee, the marinade is also available in Germany! Now all that's missing is the fish...
Really makes me appreciate where i live. 5 minutes in the water youre in the ono lane
Another one to mention is Banks Boards. They're not inflatable so it's like a mini kayak for your torso but I've seen them hold up well in surf here in California.
They look pretty good! Would be interesting what sort of speed you could get swimming on them. I can average 3km/hr on mine which is a steady sustainable work rate. If I’m pushing it I can get to 3.6km/hr.
Hello sir , i have a fammily member he is a spear fisher like you , he always tells me that he never go out solo , just wanna say be carefull when you dive solo as it is dangerous or don't dive to deep , great video
fairoics that was mint
Nice.
Saya sangat menyukai Spearfishing....
Im impressed by how long u can hold ur breath
Thanks for sharing sir! Curious , was that from Brighton beach?
Hi chap, love the videos you make…beautiful content! Just thinking it would be mega if you had a 360 camera with you so as you drive down we can see a different perspective of your drops.
Hope you have a great day :)
If you know anyone at Insta360, tell them I’m keen 🤣
Great footage and not something I would do alone. You can't swim out too far where I live in Florida, as you'd take a big chance at getting run over by a boat. A kayak would serve you well.
Going to try to use SUP to swim far offshore. Record for me was 1,6 km with a smaller float than yours in Baltic sea.
Thanks for the education.
Yahooooo
Nice fish wings ... ill put them in the smoker along with the fish heads ... really enjoy your vids
I need to get in to smoking, one of these days!
Nice video as always. I'm also doing more shore dives then with boat in the Baltic sea. Main target is COD, but it is real challenge to got some.
Float diving is also great workout 👌
Why you don’t use orca 100 here?
I’ve always enjoyed my time diving in the Baltic Sea, love those cod.
I was waiting on a new 6.75mm shaft for my Orca 100 but took it out last week 👌
Although this is cool, don't go out alone... U donno when something would go wrong.. stay safe guys 🤗🤗
We need to get out there together asap!! Need some wings! Great video by the poshest bogan there is!!
Weather is good this week 👀👀👀
Where in the uk can one go spear fishing like this. So cool
All along the south coast of England.
Awesome vid- you should consider having a depth and dive time in a lower third each time you film a dive...
I have but I don't feel like it would add much to it, I tend to use voice over if the depth is important.
5:17 what a shot good on ya mate
Cheers! I was pretty happy with that one.
Keep it up Mr daniel
Also dou you have any tip for seasickness and how to get rid of it by training cuz i dive occasionally because the atlantic sea in my country goes good for spearfishing very occasionally average
I use antihistamine tablets. They block the same part of your brain that makes you get hayfever as well as motion sickness.
Never thought of trying Nando sauce on fish wings... Good suggestion!
It’s a winner!
@@DanielMann I have a Best Hunter Okipa 3 Board and the only thing I do not like about these boards are their flimsy valves. They leak air all the time. Last summer I inflated the tubes to max and super glue the valves. I was happy until the weather got colder. As I have inflated and glued the tubes when the air temp. was around 40, the tubes got deflated (due to temperature difference) when the air temp dropped significantly in winter. The float did not had too much buoyancy to begin with (even though it is one of the bigger ones but not as big as the patrol) so with deflated tubes the buoyancy got even worse and did not support my weight. I got the float as I always do shore diving and until recently my closest diving spot was a mile offshore. However, I quickly found out that doing a supported swim with these floats is not the best idea in Cyprus summer as the temp got up to 45 an water temp up to 31. I only can last few minutes swimming supported with the board, then I had emerge myself to water to cool and prevent a heatstroke. I was hoping them it would be more beneficial in winter but with the current condition of the tubes it is not. However as a good news, one of the companies came up with better inner tubes with better looking valves for a similarly designed float. So I am hoping if I can get hold of those inner tubes the float would be more functional. But if I am buying a new float next time it would be a dropped stitched body board type one. There is a chance to attach a powerful electric motor to those as well (check scubajet) which should really help getting me to the dive locations without increasing my hear rate.
Hey bro 4k res whats the rest of your settings for underwater shooting? If it isnt to much to ask. Have gopro 11 black trying to get best shots i can for shooting fish. Thank you ahead of time!
Thats sure so tasty🤙
Correct...Nando's. South african company using Portuguese style chicken recipes.
Oh your doing this in the UK much safer than many other places on earth.
Great video as always Daniel! What dept can i expect 1mile off shore in sussex?
Depends which part but you can easily see on the navionics app. Would be hard pressed to find more than 20m though.
Red light filter for the camera! You wont regret it, makes the footage perfect
how deep do you dive and how long do you hold your breath for on your dives?
Daniel you should offer an online course for beginners... I really want to get into spearfishing but. Ijust don't know where to start... love your content btw
I’ve thought about making one but I’m also not sure where to start 🤣 Ryan Myers has one coming out soon!
Gotta learn to be more patient like you with my shots. Well done. Your harpoons, what mm tickness do they have?
I use either 6.5mm or 6.25mm shafts with 17.5mm bands.
Hey Daniel, when going diving alone, when do you start your accent? When you feel uncomfortable? A couple of contractions?
You could greatly increase your efficiency and safety by using a SOT fishing kayak for the journey. Enjoy your vids!