NSP:273 Deep Durbanite, Taravana & Building Boats | Don Solomon

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Interview with Don Solomon

Todays interview is with Don Solomon, a spearfishing legend from South Africa! Specializing in deep spearfishing, Don is a treasure trove of diving knowledge and spearfishing wisdom. Having competed in the Sardinia spearfishing world champs and regularly hunting fish in 40m-50m of water, Don dives at another level. Listen in on the conversation as we scratch the surface on what Don has to offer, we chat about spearfishing clubs, competitions, sharks, diving extremely deep and building world class spearfishing boats! Don also has personal experience with Taravarna, or decompression illness, having suffered from it in the Sardinia world champs and has some interesting insights into it and how to prevent it from happening to you.

Important times

• 00:13 Intro
• 07:25 Welcome Don Solomon, president of SAUFF
• 08:05 Spearfishing clubs
• 10:15 What if I don't like competitions?
• 17:15 South Africa's best spearfishermen & competitions in South Africa
• 25:40 Your first ever fish while spearfishing
• 28:10 How do you deal with a fish after shooting it?
• 31:20 Sharks in South Africa
• 35:45 Building and spearfishing from boats
• 37:25 How to build a spearfishing boat; Osprey 420
• 43:55 Outboard size
• 53:45 Fish finder transducer hacks and tips
• 56:05 Deep diving is extremely accurate diving: reading electronics
• 1:03:20 Deep diving buddy Corry, Deep EQ
• 01:05:30 Why do you dive so deep?
• 01:10:55 Adapting to diving deep
• 01:15:55 Relaxing
• 01:21:00 Taravarna, Decompression Illness
• 01:28:30 How to prevent Taravarna: stay hydrated
• 01:34:25 The day before diving is extremely important
• 01:40:15 Why don't you like shooting Billfish?
• 01:41:15 Pathos ambassador
• 01:45:15 Thanks for joining us Don!

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