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26.10.2014 · AUTUMN · SPEARFISHING

Zanzibar! Dreams come true - a 54kg tuna!

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D Denis · Added 26 October 2014
Zanzibar! Dreams come true - a 54kg tuna!

Hi everyone!
The plane... 7000 above the ground... Istanbul-Baku... Well, that's the end of the trip, the last leg and I'm home. But my thoughts keep going back to the ocean... And the whole trip comes down to those two minutes (a lot or a little, who knows)...
"The ocean always gives us a chance," Viktor once said... And he was right. That chance was given to our team, and we took it. When I say "WE", I picked the right pronoun - at 25 meters, having dropped below the flasher, I see a tuna passing about 3 meters below me and showing absolutely no interest in me... Just a fish swimming away... I don't know what drove me next, but I made some throaty sounds, and I see the dogtooth tuna turn around and head my way. No extra moves, I freeze and wait for it. It's not just me underwater - it's our whole team: Leonid, Valera, Viktor, Vadim. They're all here... And I feel the collective mind - "wait, wait, wait"... The tuna comes almost point-blank and, apparently disappointed, turns right in front of the speargun and presents the back of its neck for the shot. Ice in my heart and the whole team with me - "Now!"
And then all hell broke loose - the first hard buoy went under, I see the second one, a Rob Allen "remora" crushed at a depth of 15 meters. Luckily, on the way it snagged Eric's vinyl line, and now it's dragging the two of us about 150 meters across the surface. Suddenly the 12-liter hard buoy pops up... What - did it get off??? My heart sank... What went wrong?
But I swim over, grab the line and feel that sweet weight on the other end. I pull the line in...
Yes, we did it!!!
The rest you can watch in the video. I'll just say it was the result of teamwork. Guys, we did what we set out to do!!!Short and spontaneous... But I know that once I'm back home, life will get busy...
Expedition members: Valery Kovalevsky - Irkutsk
Viktor Frantsov - Moscow
Vadim Plotnikov - Chelyabinsk/Cambodia
Leonid Kleshnin - Saint Petersburg
Denis Novotorzhin - Baku (Azerbaijan)


A short clip-

http://youtu.be/2FCW9R1tJ9o

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Comments (2)

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Esen 04 Nov 2014, 15:00

Супер! Мои поздравления.

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Denis Author 05 Nov 2014, 20:07

Спасибо !Кому интересно,можно подробнее о поездке послушать здесь-http://vodolaz-radio.ru/priklyucheniya-v-tanzanii-pochemu-tam-est-tuncy-i-vaxu-i-net-eboly/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin

Trip passport

Date 26.10.2014
Season Autumn
Activity Spearfishing
Route Well, really far away somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
Author Denis
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