Freedive-A-Palooza
Posted By Jon Zeaman on 13 September 2004
Saturday morning had me up at 6 a.m. so that I could jump in the lake to start setting up the target range. We ended up having a very sweet little range in 10’ of water with a sand slope back drop to stop any wayward spears. It was complete with waterproof measuring tapes anchored to the bottom to gauge the distance on our shots. It’s truly amazing how much you can learn about how your speargun(s) shoot by spending a little time at the target range. Now I can hardly wait for my next time out to do some real shooting.
Other divers started rolling in around 9 a.m. We had plenty of gear lined up for them to try. We ended up with a solid core group of 12 freedivers and generated a lot of interest amongst the scuba and tech divers who were also calling the lake home for the weekend. Some of the scuba divers even wanted to know which side of the lake we were going to be diving on Sunday so that they could plan their own dives around watching us!
The day progressed with the divers working their way out to the 30’ and 75’ platforms. More than one freediver set a personal best that day and it was all done with plenty of support that makes an event like this so much fun.
Saturday night turned out to be a real technical achievement as my trimix buddy, Gert, put all of that technical know-how together and set up a drive-in theater in the middle of the campground. There could only be one movie choice for such a gathering of freedivers, thus, The Big Blue was all set up for a sunset screening.
After another late night at the movies morning came far too early as some people from another campsite decided to wake us all from our slumber at precisely 6 a.m. with some really loud Mariachi music. Fred is the only one who slept through this as he packed along ear plugs to wear while he slept- that guy is always thinking.
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