Interview with Bert Keulder from Old Man Blue

Todays interview is with Bert Keulder from Old Man Blue and we chat all about the new gear he’s made! Old Man Blue is well known for making rugged, tough, extremely well designed and properly engineered dive gear for spearfishing and crayfish/lobster diving. First he brought out his famous SeaSac catch bag, now he has released the soon to be famous Orca Harness weight vest and Heavy Duty Floatline. The Orca Harness is a weight vest designed to make you not know you’re wearing it, protect your lower back from strain and make you much more maneuverable in the water. The Heavy Duty Floatline is exactly that: a floatline for hunting and fighting huge fish like Dogtooth Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Wahoo, Marlin, etc! A bunch of other gear as well as funny stories from Bert’s diving days.

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Go check out the gear for yourself at OldManBlue.com.au!

Important times:

00:13 Intro
04:40 Welcome Bert!
05:50 New gear!
07:10 The SeaSac
11:20 Innovation in Spearfishing from nature
14:00 Commercial diving stories
16:55 The Orca Harness weight vest! What are the advantages to using a harness?
25:25 Where does the name come from?
28:30 Stickers

30:50 Weights for the Orca Harness
33:45 Mirror flasher safety device
35:00 Fish flasher
37:25 Diving with sharks
40:50 Shoutout to Micka (@mickatches) and Antoine (@antoine_shmtt)
43:15 An Englishman and a triggerfish

47:55 Running out of fuel
50:10 Heavy Duty Floatline
56:15 Dogtooth Tuna Floatline setup
59:15 Engineering and development

01:04:20 Australian record Queenfish
01:08:00 Apron
01:12:00 Birthday flasher in Fiji

01:17:30 Thanks for joining us Bert!

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