FREEDIVE-APLOOZA

[FreediveWI]

Thanks for the offer Jason. You should email Fred, as he is the one setting up the website for now.

We ended up having a "wet-run" yesterday at Lannon Quarry. A buddy of mine caught the bug and wanted me to show him how to do it. We gathered a "few" other pairs of fins together and gave it a whirl.

We put in a training line, but the quarry is so shallow it wasn't much use. It's been a while since I last dove there, but the quarry has reall gone down hill. It is now choking with Eurasian Milfoil, which I have no idea how it got in there since there really aren't any boats allowed on the lake. ??? It was also black past 30'. If you went down to 40' and waited your eyes could adjust and make out the vast bottom of black ooze that covers the deep end. I know htat I swam haed first into the muck at one point as I was following a line down past the level where the viz disappeared.

We did manage a nice swim around and saw all of the highlights in the quarry, the sunken shack , train tracks, ore carts, ect.

THe best part was seeing how comfortable my buddy got after only anhour in hte water. He really started to improve his kick adn get some nice bottom times in.

We also got to compare notes on a lot of different fins and monofins.

Next summer the idea is to do this exact same thing, but with more people and more gear. We have tow different freediving companies sending gear to try, plus hte personal stok of Fred, Ted, and I. We also have a bunch of different masks to try- like tinted lens, low volume spearing masks. I imagine that we'll also have just a few spaerguns up there as well. There is no speraing in Lannon Quarry because they plant trout in there, but Wazee is wide open for spearing pan and rough fish.

Jon