DEEP SPEARFISHING MASTER CLASS
ONLINE COURSE WITH GIACOMO DEMOLA
Nowadays by surfing the web you can find whatsoever type of info about spearfishing and despite the great effort made by many top players to convey the message that an adequate course is the safest way to practice this sport, many still go for a DIY approach just a step away from total madness. The most dangerous performances are those of who decide to face the great depths with very little knowledge both practical and theoretical, only on the basis of their own empirical experience at smaller depths.
Now is finally available online a video course on d…
SPEARFISHING WITH A BELLY BOAT
SEVENBASS: A NEW MEAN FOR A HIGHER SAFETY
Spearfishing is a fascinating activity that exposes us to risks not only related to the exercise itself of the athletic gesture, in other words everything that can happen from the moment you leave the surface to that in which you get back to it, but also to external and environmental ones.
In fact, despite our accuracy in checking forecasts, the sea status can change suddenly or despite the dive flag signaling a boat may not see us.
In consideration of all these circumstances, especially when you are not spearfishing near the coastline, for the ti…
XT DIVING FINS
HERE THE FULL RANGE
The XT DIVING PRO of Tasos Chalaris is a Greek company now known internationally thanks to the quality of its fins that have led it to win even a world spearfishing championship. Its offer is very varied just to be able to meet everyone's needs according to the type of finning, training and diving practiced.
Below you can see an overview of the available fins with the relevant explanation of the characteristics and the suggested use.
TAGS: XT DIVING ALPHA PTERYX NORMAL PTERYX LONG PTERYX LONG WIDE PTERYX COMPETITION PTERYX POOL FIN PTERYX POOL FIN SHORT T4 T5 VASILIOU TRAIN…
NOOTICA: THE ONLINE WATER SPORTS SHOP
ALL THAT YOU NEED FOR FISHING, SPEARFISHING, DIVING, ETC
Created in 2007, NOOTICA is the first on-line shop specialized in water sports (spearfishing, fishing, diving, snorkeling, paddle, kayak, wakeboard, surf, wakeboard, windsurf ...), and quickly becomes leader in France offering more than 70,000 references in its catalog.
Based in the beautiful region of the Maritime Alps, we have built up a team of more than 30 collaborators, all experts and passionates practicing nautical sports. We manage logistics on our own to guarantee top customer service with always t…
SALVIMAR FLUYD
NEW LINE FOR PURE APNEA SWIMMING AND TRIATHLON
Everything is finally ready! The new project of Salvimar can be officially unveiled.The company that we all know for the production of spearfishing gears has today presented its new line of equipment for freediving, swimming and triathlon on the most prestigious stage, the DEMA SHOW in Las Vegas - USA (19-23 / 11/14)!
For a long time this idea has been waiting to become real and now you can finally appreciate the results.All of these items are functional for the sports mentioned above and were tested by elite athletes such as Alessia zecchini and Davide Carrera w…
INTOVA CONNEX
THE REVOLUTIONARY POV CAM
Designers at INTOVA seem to never sleep as they keep building up new exciting products for underwater use.
Amazing innovations are ready to break into the action cam market and will be officially presented at DEMA SHOW 2014 in Las Vegas. One of these products is the brand new CONNEX!
It is not yet available in Europe but we managed to get a preview for all our readers.
The CONNEX is a new action cam designed for all spearos and anglers who have a boat or a dinghy equipped with a fish finder / echo sounder.
It is in fact the only camera currently on the market that thanks to a VGA c…
OCTOPUS SPEARFISHING BANNED
From June 1 to September 30
The prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region has submitted a proposal banning octopus spearfishing from 1st June to 30th September in the waters of the Mediterranean sea.
This is yet another action against French spearos, after the moratorium aimed to permanently ban groupers and corbs spearfishing, motivated by economic reasons.
The project was requested by the French fishery organizations to protect the species. At the end of the story, this should just be a biological rest period which should allow octopuses to lay their eggs in peace, but in fact…
SALVIMAR 2015 CATALOG
AVAILABLE ONLINE!
The new catalog SALVIMAR 2015 is finally available online on the manufacturer’s website which never fails to surprise thanks to the several new features it contains. Among the most important ones we surely find the new shafts PACIFIC and LASER, the A-BOOST bands, the new SAPIENS wetsuits (evolution of the training model) but the most important novelty is surely represented by the pneumatic speargun PREDATHOR.
I can not reveal much of this revolutionary speargun as it will be involved in other specific publications, I can only say that it is a vacuum pneumatic speargun that is so easy t…
TEAM: SIGALSUB CARBON SPEARGUN
HERE IS THE PRICE LIST OF THE NEW MONOCOQUE "TEAM"
TEAM 85
Shaft: 6.25mm x 120cm, low pins, 1 lower barb, cone
Reel: Edy60 with 30mt of dyneema 1,5mm
Bands: 60cm Extreme 17.5mm
Other accessories:
1 jewel energy titanium wishbone
1 carbon camera mount
1 speargun bag with Sigalsub logo
PRICE: 590€
TEAM 95
Shaft: 6.50mm x 130cm, low pins, 1 lower barb, cone
Reel: Edy80 with 50mt of dyneema 1,5mm
Bands: 120cm Reactive 14.5mm
Other accessories:
1 XL energy titanium wishbone
1 jewel energy titanium wishbone…
AQUALUNG TAKES OVER OMER SUB
APNEA.FR ANNOUNCES IT
The well known french website announces today this histical change in the international market, below the article translated in english. For the original article click here.
Omersub, the world leader brand in the spearfishing equipment market, was bought out by another giant specialized in scuba equipment: AquaLung. Marco and Claudio Ciceri wished to retire and on July 31st 2013 they found a buyer. They have entrusted the future of the brands OMER and Sporasub to AquaLung.
Market leader in recreational diving with a solid positioning in the milit…
PRINCES OF THE WRECKS
THE WHOLE FILM BY ESPLA, WITH FROLLA & BUYLE ON VIMEO
An amazing movie in which the belgian photographer Fred Buyle and the french freediving recordman Pierre Frolla visit on one breath only the deepest wreks of ships and planes in the mediterranean sea. Unfortunately it is not dubbed and it is available in french only with no subtitles.
In this movie you can see them visiting the wrecks of the Togo, Prophète, Catalina, AT6, Arroyo and many others that are all lying at a depth ranging from 30 to 60 metres below the surface. They also visited a steam shipwreck in the icy waters of the Annecy l…
IMERSION: SPECIAL OFFERS
ON ALL SPEARFISHING GEARS
Thanks to an agreement with the famous french company, now all nadirspearfishing users can have a 20% discount on all spearfishing gears in the Imersion catalogue! Don't waste time, it's easy! Request your coupon code at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
\n and then check the IMERSION website where you'll be able to find all that you need, from fins to shafts and much more...
Even if you see an existing discount on the item you choose, you can still have the 20% off, however such a discount does not cover the shippi…
INTOVA SPORT HD EXTREME
POV CAM FOR UNDERWATER USE
Dear readers a new extraordinary product from Intova is about to come with amazing features.
In about 40 days the Intova Sport HD EXTREME will be available worldwide for all passionate freedivers, spearos and scuba divers.
It’s the natural evolution of the Intova sport first model with further enhanced features for underwater use.
Let’s go through them…
Stills
In regards to stills now there is a separate shutter button in order to make a distinction between the functions and let its use be more intuitive. The resolution was brought to 14MP and as in the latest…
MAREA SUB THE NEW WEBSITE IS ONLINE
DESIGNED FOR TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES
Marea website has finally changed its skin and the new version is finally online! Osvaldo presented a very attractive and user friendly restyling which guarantees the presence of all major functions in the first portion of the homepage, so there is no longer need to "scroll" to search for the products, order, mimetic patterns or online measure section.
The new website interface introduces some technological innovations which allow an easier navigation with mobile devices.
The most important feature is the "online measures" which allows you to fil…
INTOVA HD SPORT
NOW IMPROVED
We are glad to announce that after the publication of our SPORT HD camera review the INTOVA has made some very important running changes that further improve the underwater use of such a product.
Almost all the amendments proposed by our staff after testing the camera have been implemented and they are summarized here below, anyway opening the case is now easier as we figured out that there is a mechanism designed to break seal. Pressing buttons still requires some effort in the end.
The straightforward menu now includes a DIVE MODE preset for white balance that is a function allowing users…
INTOVA:
HD UNDERWATER POV CAMERAS
Dear spearo friends it is my absolute privilege to introduce the new nadir spearfishing's sponsor: INTOVA.
This is a company producing HD cameras and accessories especially for underwater use. The particular attention paid to such a kind of use turns this company into the most important and reliable one when it comes to decide which camera to mount on our spearguns. It is based in Hawaii and although it may seem an unusual place for an international corporation to be based, its deep oceans, tall mountains and 11 of the worlds 13 climatic zones make of it the best place to test cameras in all…
LEROI DESIGN WETSUITS
SANDWICH AND VARIABLE THICKNESS
The 2013 has started with important changes for the young company Leroi design that is now presenting its brand new website with refreshed graphics and a cleaner and user friendly layout allowing an easier browsing. Now it's really just a click away.
The news are not yet finished, because my friend Toni Piscitelli has introduced interesting innovations in his range of wetsuits APNEA GARA.
The latter is now available in sandwich neoprene and in two version: NORMAL or PRO. The PRO one differs from the first for the presence of seams that further seal the j…
BLACKTECH - CROAZIA
NEW CARBON FINS
I am glad to introduce the Blacktech a young Croatian company established by the naval engineer and yacht designer Bruno Ancic in 2005. Since the very beginning Bruno has spent a lot of time in R&& to design the optimal model and thanks to the help of local spearos, among which we know there are many international athletes, he succeeded in creating a top quality product. In 2011 Sasa Mraovic, another naval engineer, joined the adventure, so the Nanokarbon LTD was finally established. Since then this young company has grown dramatically and now it has clients all over the world (Brazil, USA, Hawai…
IMERSION - CORALIGN
FRENCH SPEARFISHING EQUIPMENT
Dear Spearo mates I am proud to introduce the new NadirSpearfishing.com sponsor, the Imersion!
This is a French Spearfishing equipment manufacturing company founded in 1989 by Mr. Pierre Buffa with the help of a French spearfishing world champion. It was established in Marseille, southern France, the well known European capital of spearfishing equipment production.
In 1995, the main French manufacturer of shafts, diving knives and spearfishing accessories, Desiage joined with Imersion to reinforce its potential on the freediving spearfishing market. With the Coralign brand, De…
NEW NADIR SPEARFISHING WETSUITS
BY LEROI DESIGN
The new Nadir Spearfishing wetsuits, made by the famous Genoese firm Leroi Design, have finally arrived. Available either in lined neoprene or in single backed one, as shown in the picture, they are designed by my friend Tony Piscitelli with great care to details and have a very competitive price.
The quality of materials is unquestionable as you just need to consider that after two years of normal use, the wetsuit keeps its original volume without presenting even detachments in joints. The most important features of Nadir Spearfishing wetsuits then are the high thermal powe…
GRANDA SUB - CROATIA
GRANDA SUB: CARBON &&WOOD SPEARGUNS
Dear readers I am proud to present a Croatian company manufacturing high quality railguns since 1998: the Granda Sub!
In that year, Eduard Suran built up the first prototype of speargun with wooden barrel, a novelty at that time, but still a raw product which was not equipped with an handle but it got mounted in a commercial one from the most famous producers like Mares, Omer, Cressi , DEMKA.
The passion for spearfishing led Mr. Suran to personally test it in the waters of Rovinj, already known to have been the scene of international competitions. Since then he has s…
GFT CARBONIO PHOTO CONTEST
AERO BLADES WITH FOOT POCKETS FOR THE WINNER
CARBONIO GFT, the italian company well known all over the world for their amazing carbon blades made with areospatial technology, has created an exceptional event in line with its typical spirit of innovation, for all spearos with the passion for underwater pics. It's the PHOTO HYPNOTIC 2012 ! An underwater picture contest exclusively reserved to all Tony's facebook friends (the head of GFT carbonio). The theme will be the sea and its inhabitants and the winner will get delivered a pair of gft aero blades with foot pockets included! Here are the rules to partec…
DEPTH HUNTER:
A NEW SPEARFISHING GAME
Depth Hunter offers 25 exciting missions in which players will hunt different fish species and face the difficulties of breath-holding spearfishing, an ancient fishing method. Players will also have to fight predators, can find treasures and get the possibility to take underwater photos to capture the beauty of the simulated, detailed and lively underwater worlds they’re exploring also in a free mode.
The game supports motion controllers, such as the Razer™ Hydra® system. Game is optimized for Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge (Intel Integrated Graphics), You can enjoy game in 3D with NVIDIA® 3D V…
THE FIRST SPEARFISHING VIDEOGAME
SPEARFISHING: designed for XBOX and PC
Next month the first spearfishing simulator will be available in all videogames stores in its XBOX and PC versions. It was created by Biart Studio in Moscow and you can enjoy the HD trailer below: This game is characterized by outstanding graphics, especially for the appereance of the marine/fresh water enviroments and the fishes. Even the equipment was accurately designed by the creators who have reproduced the most common models that we are used to choose for our fishing. Players will also have the possibility to choose the location in which to fish, w…
FORMULA THREE FREEDIVING
THE FIRST F3F CAYMAN GRAND PRIX’ 05/2010
Merging engines with freediving has given birth to a new sport called Formula Three Freediving. This new activity consists of different kinds of races run with special underwater scooters all on one single breath. These particular scooters are specially designed to easily and fastly perform during a dive, infact by using one of them a diver is able to move very rapidly in the water as graceful as a dolphin.
The first grand prix will take place from the 15th to the 21st of may 20010 at the Cayman island and will be divided in three races as follows: …
