Today, spearfishermen are freediving down to 80-100 feet in the search for large pelagic predators such as marlin, ulua and ono. Bluewater freedivers are now hunting off of fish aggregation bouys anchored in waters that are often deeper than a mile.
 

by Carlos Eyles
183 pages
Watersport Books

This is the culmination of man's long trek back to the sea and his encounter with the stunning creatures that roam beneath the surface of the oceans. It is about a handful of men who broke down the final barricades of ocean myths and made their way into the last wilderness, armed with only their courage and driven by an insatiable curiosity.

It is also about the sea, as viewed not by the scientist of the naturalist, but by the hunter, who sees it with a sharp, all-encompassing eye, exposing the reader to an ocean world that is never seen by the majority of divers.

This is the extraordinary true account of the greatest divers in the world. Carlos takes us from his early beginnings on the Island of Hawaii to his own apprenticeship with the Blue water tribe in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico during the 1960s. There he learns to stalk the powerful game fish that inhabit the deep waters. Then. after 20 years of blue water hunting, he returns to the island of Catalina where he fulfills his dream of living off the sea using only a speargun to sustain himself.

The climax of this book is an incredible expedition to the far reaches of the ocean world; the deep Pacific, the last frontier of the blue water hunter, where he stalks the giant blue fin tuna.

"I realized that these elements could not be revealed in the sudden glare of a flash, nor in color prints that deceive the eye into belief of the illusion before it, nor for that matter, under the scrutiny of a close-up lense. I discovered that if they were expressed at all, or even suggested in a picture, it would be in the black and white photograph. For there, beneath the silver, surfacing at the edge of black, the unnamed murmered every so softly to the corners of the mind. In the shadows of the black and white photograph lay the magic of the ocean universe.

"A mind can only be as healthy as the environment that surrounds it. And the environment can only be as healthy as the minds that behold it."

Carlos Eyles
 

by Carlos Eyles

In this near mystical journey, Carlos returns to the once bountiful Sea of Cortez he explored as a free diver over thirty years ago. Finding it lacking, he continues on to a distant archipelago, one rumored to hold great fish and sharks by the thousands, soaring manta rays, and breaching whales. Here on the ocean's edge, he takes the reader on breath-hold dives into an extremely dangerous yet magical realm.
 

by Carlos Eyles
160 pages
Watersport Books

This is an adventure story, one that holds the body, mind and spirit in critical jeopardy. Veteran blue water hunter Ray Messias and novice Andy McCorkin have been swept into dangerous waters and must survive by their skills and what they carry. Carols Eyles weaves a masterly tale that twists and turns with the unexpected that only someone who has spent a lifetime in the water could draw upon.

Here in the far reaches of the ocean wilderness, the peril becomes overwhelming, the impossible becomes possible, the real becomes surreal and the messenger becomes the message. The book is at once a breathtaking adventure and a learning experience of the highest order.

by Carlos Eyles
159 pages
Watersport Books

This classic book by one of the world's most famous and accomplished freedivers takes us to the far corners of the heart and mind as well as the ocean's realm. The scale is grand, the adventure is high, and the background is spectacular as it must have been in those early days of free diving in tropical places. Eyles writes about a wilderness - the wilderness within each of us - as it is reflected back through the environment. He takes us beyond safe confines to the unknown, as a free diver, unencumbered, vulnerable, operating in an alien environment with uncommon ease.

Complete with over ninety photographs and illustrations. Reveals secrets (until now anyway) and tips from champion spearfishermen.

Learn about:

• Selecting a speargun
• Spearfishing techniques for scuba diving and freediving
• Custom speargun configurations
• Hawaiian slings and pole spears
• Stringers, speartips and other spearfishing accessories
• Spearfishing equipment maintenance
• Spearfishing safety
• Lobster hunting
• Scalloping

by Terry Maas
Hardcover
214 pages
Publisher BlueWater Freedivers, Ventura, California 1995

New Stories and World-record Rules!

Daring stories and stunning pictures enhance this freediving classic. Over 50 full-page color plates illustrate chapters on spearfishing and freediving technique, sharks, safety, equipment, photography and the best bluewater hunts over the last 40 years, worldwide. National champion and world-record holder, Terry Mass, profiles 12 bluewater species from tuna to marlin, and sailfish to wahoo. Loaded with practical suggestions, this book is a must for anyone interested in freediving or spearfishing.

by Terry Maas and David Sipperly
Hardcover
152 pages
Publisher BlueWater Freedivers, Ventura, California 1998

The art and science of freediving illustrated with 150 color plates.

• History of Freediving
• Physiology
• Equipment
• Beginning exercises
• Advanced techniques
• Photography for the freediver
• Underwater hockey
• Monofin swimming
• Game gathering
• Diving for depth records
• Glossary and index

by John E. Randall
Softcover
216 pages
Publisher Natural World Press, Vida Oregon, 1996

"There are living giants in every field of science, and Dr. John E. Randall of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Hawaii and the Bishop Museum reigns in ichthyology, the study of fishes. No one has more knowledge or experience concerning the fishes of tropical seas. Drawing on his knowledge of Hawaiian fishes and his skill as a fish photographer, he has produced this compact guidebook on the shore fishes of Hawaii." Dr. John E. McCosker, Chair of Aquatic Biology, California Academy of Sciences.

by Jerry, Idaz and Michael Greenberg
Softcover
64 pages
Publisher Seahawk Press, Miami, Florida, 1987

Brilliant photographs of the fishes of Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean, along with accurate descriptions and full-color drawings. Aids in identifying more than two dozen types of fishes, including morays, sharks and commensals, rays, barracudas, bigeyes, cardinalfishes and squirrelfishes, groupers, hamlets, basslets, grunts, porgies, jacks, slim-bodied fishes, goatfishes, snappers, wrasses, and many more.

by Doug Wallin
Softcover
108 pages
Publisher Pisces Books, A division of Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas 1991

Scuba and snorkeling enthusiasts alike will find the best dives of the breathtakingly beautiful islands of Hawaii - Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai - in this new, updated edition. New dive sites have been added and previous sites have been revisited and revised. Maps showing the overall layout of the islands, as well as detailed location maps (new to this edition) for most dive sites, let divers know exactly where to dive, entry and exit points, and landmarks. Also information on topside attractions of each island.