FreeDive.net Reported First: I’ve often wondered what it would be like to come face to face with a beastly marlin in the ocean, a competing predator with a spear of its own more primitive than mine. I’ve thought of the many scenarios in the event of an encounter with the behemoth, and weighed the consequences of a battle should it occur. If I failed, I could ultimately die. The episode has been played and replayed, over and over in my mind with varied scenarios. And in each situation I make the right choices and leave no errors for mistakes. But I’ve come to grasp that although I take all precautionary measures in subduing a giant, the event could still be costly. There is no question that our ocean is wild and full of danger, but she can also be a great educator, lavishing wisdom to teachable students. And if one is careful to give her the respect that she deserves, one can learn much. I have chosen to learn.
Most of my hunting is focused in waters beyond our reefs; at FADs, in bird piles and deep drop-offs, in waters where the ocean floor is rarely seen. It is often a quiet and desolate place. There I become enveloped by infinite space, detached and vulnerable. There are no boulders, crevices or caves to conceal myself. Yet somehow I feel at home and at peace with my surroundings. In the quiet solitude my senses become sharp and my awareness keen. On single breaths at a time I hover at depths of neutral buoyancy, loosely tethered to a line that keeps me from sinking into the abyss. I want so desperately to see magnificent creatures. And I desire for them to see me. My arrow is locked and loaded, and ready to unleash its fury at a twitch of a finger. But most of the time the arrow remains fixed, a fish swims by, and no life is taken.
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