Blood in the Water (18 images)

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  • SUMMARY - "Blood in the Water" Spearfishing is a type of hunting done with underwater guns, harpoons and strong line. Freediving is a type of breath-hold diving in which divers descend for the duration of one breath, without any SCUBA tanks or any breathing apparatus. The best freedivers can hold their breath for over five minutes and go deeper than 100 feet. The combination of both these skills makes a high adrenaline sport done by only a few brave souls...THIS IMAGE - Ren Chapman prepares for a dive with a loaded and ready speargun while another diver rests, holding onto a dive-line to stay in position against the current. "Blood in the water - Predive"

  • Kenneth Kelly "brains" a barracuda after spearing it while freediving and spearfishing off the coast of North Carolina. Often after a fish is shot and captured, the hunter will stab it in the head to make sure the animal is dead. "Blood in the Water - Brained"

  • Bryan Heron tries to avoid the long tentacles of jellyfish while preparing for a dive. Several minutes of breath exercises at the surface proceed each dive. "Blood in the water - Tentacles"

  • Beams of sunlight filter past Joe Sheridan, who waits for Wahoo or Amberjack to shoot with his speargun at depth of approximately 30 feet. Sheridan was freediving - Blue Water Hunting - various locations with friends in the Gulf Stream, about 25 miles off Cape Hatteras, NC.

  • Kelsey Albert shows off an African Pompano she shot while waiting for the boat to pick her up. She and was competing a spearfishing tournament off the coast of North Carolina. "Blood in the Water - AP Prey"

  • Ren Chapman gasps for air as he surfaces out of the water. Since freedivers use snorkels instead of scuba tanks, there are no bubbles and divers are able to move closer to fish without spooking them. The trade off is that the dive is limited to the time of one breath. "Blood in the water - Breathe up"

  • Captain Lindsey Shuford watches as Kenneth Kelly and Kelsey Albert prepare their spearfishing gear, including guns, spears, tips and lines before freediving off the coast of North Carolina. "Blood in the Water - Gear check"

  • A diver gathers his breath, preparing for another dive under the sun's rays filtering through the ocean water.

  • Kolt Johnson freedives within a school of amberjack, swimming in the waters off the coast of North Carolina. Many believe spearfishing to be the most sustainable form of fishing, since there is no blind-casting of lines or nets. The hunter sees exactly what they are fishing for, and thus there is no wasteful by-catch of unwanted creatures. "Blood in the Water - Schooling".

  • Kelsey Albert "brains" a hogfish after spearing it while freediving and spearfishing, as a bait-ball of smaller fish sweep in, looking for leftover scraps of meat. Often after a fish is shot and captured, the hunter will stab it in the head to make sure the animal is dead. "Blood in the Water - Hogfish"

  • SUMMARY - "Blood in the Water" Spearfishing is a type of hunting done with underwater guns, harpoons and strong line. Freediving is a type of breath-hold diving in which divers descend for the duration of one breath, without any SCUBA tanks or any breathing apparatus. The best freedivers can hold their breath for over five minutes and go deeper than 100 feet. The combination of both these skills makes a high adrenaline sport done by only a few brave souls. This is an essay about a group of freedivers in North Carolina...THIS IMAGE - Chris Brooks prepares for a dive with a loaded and ready speargun while trying to avoid jellyfish floating in the water around him..

  • DJ Struntz "breathes up" - preparing his lungs with stretches and breath exercises at the water's surface. Since freedivers use snorkels instead of scuba tanks, there are no bubbles and divers are able to move closer to fish without spooking them. The trade off is that the dive is limited to the time of one breath.

  • Kelsey Albert ascends, showing off an African Pompano she shot while waiting for the boat to pick her up. She and was competing a spearfishing tournament off the coast of North Carolina.

  • Kelsey Albert scans the waters for fish below a tower while Freediving and spearfishing off the coast of North Carolina

  • DJ Struntz wrestles a large Grouper he shot into a waiting boat. Groupers are a skittish fish, dwelling on the bottom of the sea-floor, so divers must descend deep and stalk them slowly.

  • An impaled fish's tail slaps the ocean's surface, as the diver who speared it hangs on tightly to the harpoon. Fish can fight wildly even after being speared - sometimes the hardest part of the hunt is not the shot, but subduing the fish afterward.


  • Ashley Futral descends for a final dive as dusk falls and the moon rises over the ocean near Wrightsville Beach, NC. This trip ended with no fish being caught. "Blood in the Water - Goodnight Moon"

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