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Met a Bahamian commercial spearfisherman over the weekend in New Providence. What a life! This guy dives on surface air supply for 12 hours at times he told me. He has had DCS hits twice and so starts at 100 ft. and works into shallower 40 ft. water to reduce his "pains" from cranking up. He does no deco tracking or proper decompression. He may dive like this for days straight. He takes Bayer Aspirin as blood thinner to manage DCS symptoms in lieu of recompression?! He showed me a nice cuda bite mark on his skull through his forehead and under his hairline. The Bahamas and particularly the Out Islands can be sharky as hell. If you're shooting, here's dinner and you might be on the menu. Guys normally nail one or two fish and have to move on. Imagine dealing with this for a living, for days and weeks. What a life. Takes the luster out of diving, can relate from my old bugging days in college. I had it vastly better though.