NSP:267 Dive Buddies with Banter | Melissa Brunning & Dorcas Chia

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Interview with Melissa Brunning & Dorcas Chia

Todays interview is with Melissa Brunning & Dorcas Chia! Two absolutely frothing spearas, these WA ladies are a great example of pure spearfishing passion. They have both been diving for just over two years at this point but have already racked up a scorecard most of us would be jealous of! Regularly dominating the woman's spearfishing category, hear stories and laughs from their time spearfishing together, what they do well together and what they don't do well as well as a bunch of funny stories and memorable hunts from their time in the water.

Important times

• 00:13 Intro
• 04:05 Welcome Mel and Dorcas!
• 06:00 How did you start spearfishing?
• 08:35 Competition spearfishing
• 12:45 Struggles in spearfishing and how you overcome them
• 16:05 Shark in the WA Nationals
• 18:15 How to shoot long skinny fish and how to aim
• 22:25 Mel does fish ID really well
• 29:05 What does your dive partner do badly?
• 32:35 How do you hunt effectively?
• 37:55 Most memorable fish
• 47:20 Scary stories
• 50:50 Learning to deal with sharks
• 57:10 Funny moments
• 58:35 Bucket list and dream species
• 01:05:35 Using the Old Man Blue Orca Harness
• 01:08:30 Spearfishing marlin
• 01:11:25 Spearo Q&A
• 01:16:00 Outro

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