SPEARFISHING CUBA - 5 Mile Shore Dive Pt.1: Reefline Drift

[@ThatsStillUs]

Great video series already. I dove with a guy that would spend his winters over there. Very different pace of life than we are used to in America.

[@slinginsteel100]

@@ThatsStillUs thx man yea definitely eye opening.... Just uploaded part 2 yesterday, another addition coming next Wednesday as well 👍

[@markgrant5224]

It's awesome you took the time to video the trip! Thanks for sharing!

[@slinginsteel100]

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[@Disneypescasubencuba-ic7mh]

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[@spearfishinginsiders]

Bro thanks for sharing. The reason there are no fish is not the size of the reef. The few fish you see and try to shoot are the last ones around. As more you travel as more you will figure out the differences like you did with the behaviour of triggerfish. They are more aware because they have way more hunting pressure. The reason there are still some around is the triggers can live way deeper where humans dont reach so there can be still a functioning population. Good luck 🌊

[@slinginsteel100]

@@spearfishinginsiders yea no that's not actually true if you watch my next 3 Cuba edits- I just started in chronological order and the beginning swim had less fish but it's like this in many places including keys (my home) and Bahamas where there's some areas that are better than others at certain times of year but then when the water cools they start flourishing again, If you start diving the Caribbean often you will learn this, it teaches you much about fish patterns . Through 3 generations of commercial spearfishing it will teach you a lot about how quickly a reef changes throughout a year / water temp in the south Atlantic. Sometimes I have spots with absolutely nothing that I kill 100+ lbs of black grouper off of a few months later & so the cycle continues You don't learn these things quickly, so I am not surprised for you feeling this way. It's part of the reason when I drop divers on spots when there's nothing they don't seem to understand that you truly don't know until you check it because of how ever changing the sea is in the Caribbean. It's taken me years to get down but it does usually coincide with lower water temp

[@FreeSpear100]

Manny is awesome, his movie the Ultimate Predator is incredible

[@MrLiltunechijr]

Awesome vid

[@carsonands]

Beautiful reef wow

[@vladimirmartinez8431]

Great video! Cuban bottoms are incredible, and there were plenty of life as Manny told you but it’s a shame they are mostly dead now because of overfishing, spearfishing for many cubans it’s not just an sport but a way of putting food on the table or getting some money, the economic stress on the island has turn spearos into predators, i had to do it my self for many years, there are still many places with abundant marine life but there are accessible only by boat and away from shore and also restricted by the government, if you can get there swimming then is mostly empty, that’s why those triggers ( sobaco ) behave like this, they where dumb back in the days bet they had to learn. I guess you can still enjoy the magnificent coral formations and the clear waters and think of how would have been 30 years ago! Can’t wait for part 2, in the meantime thanks for this video!

[@slinginsteel100]

@@vladimirmartinez8431 your not wrong... But life was more abundant as I kept going, I just started the first half this way since it was the introduction - better fish on the next few videos. I just wanted to get this one going & use the beginning & end in the correct order

[@slinginsteel100]

@@vladimirmartinez8431 thank you for watching 💯

[@RudeSkin]

Interesting, to see how different this is from Guantánamo Bay’s reefs. The diving was phenomenal over there.

[@slinginsteel100]

Some spots are better than others, -such is the ocean anywhere The rest of the Cuba videos im editing have better fish but I had to start from the beginning of the trip with this one

[@MemeMolina]

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[@FreeSpear100]

That reef reminds me a lot of the reefs in Jamaica, no fish on them either.

[@slinginsteel100]

@@FreeSpear100 it's part 1, just getting started but it has the least amount of fish out of the rest of the videos still in edit

[@diegoelcienfueguero7865]

Nice vid, beautiful bottom. But where were the fish. I see in Miami 😂

[@slinginsteel100]

@@diegoelcienfueguero7865 just part 1 for now, nothing crazy yet

[@ronbennett8026]

Looks like some nice reef...but where's the fish?

[@slinginsteel100]

Gets better as I go in the later videos, this was the beginning

[@J.MichaelWilhelm]

2 questions, one I didn't see any Lionfish and two, no fish for that amount of reef /rock structure. Overfished ya think?

[@slinginsteel100]

just part 1 for now, nothing crazy yet

[@sergio7104]

What part of cuba is this?

[@jimbritt2874]

What was your deepest dive that day ?

[@slinginsteel100]

80 something id say when I was diving near the wall, nothing too crazy

[@tna--]

sea life is detroyed by overfishing - same like a lot of caribbean islands sadly

[@slinginsteel100]

@@tna-- not exactly true, I am just making the videos in chronological order, this part is really the slowest of all the Cuba edits I'm doing... But gotta start somewhere, especially the beginning. But yea only better fish & reefs as we go

[@Disneypescasubencuba-ic7mh]

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