Memetic Siuts

spearerr · April 22, 2009, 15:27:10 CET

Is a memetic siut really effective?

fabrizioviper · April 22, 2009, 17:10:32 CET

Personally i never saw any difference , just as long as it is not a high lighter like the ones tourists wear for SCUBA , its ok for me , i had green, black, blue and black, black and grey , red and black they where all ok . I cocentrate on the fit and the smoothness of the suit rather then the color.

spearerr · April 22, 2009, 17:13:17 CET

thanks fabrizio! i have an omer ocean mimetic and when i settle down on the bottom i see that you need to have thousands of colours to be fully mimetic

SPNOTTA · April 22, 2009, 18:13:44 CET

I believe that if one stays motionless, one blends with the surrounds.

Arti2 · April 22, 2009, 18:54:00 CET

Two years ago I went spearfishing (quick dive) without a suit . I only had an orange T-shirt and grey shorts plus flippers and mask.
I thought I was not going to catch anything. But believe me although I did not have my usual gear I managed to catch 5 nice sea breams!

So my conclusion is that it doesn't matter what you are wearing but your approach.

mellieha · April 22, 2009, 19:08:56 CET

you are all right after all the sea bed is covered in hundreds of different colours.

Currently in Cirkewwa just under the madonna there are some nice multi coloured corals, sponges, grass, starr fish, rixxi, etc on the vertical wall. Multi coloured. Just imagine their is always a nice grouper there easily approachable even with the highlighter one's.

Well these are used to us mamals.

baghira · April 22, 2009, 19:16:37 CET

I have to beleive that a little difference it still makes, although I never had any mimetic ones. But this is only valid for shallows.

Arti2 · April 23, 2009, 11:54:05 CET

Another thing is whether the fish was hunted or let us say a newbie. (jekk huta kelliex xi tir fuqha jew ghada kemm tfaccat fil-post)

Buddhagrass · April 23, 2009, 15:14:06 CET

I think that during a good aspetto a mimetic suit helps you to blend more with the surroundings. For example wearing an Omer Ocean mimetic will really come in handy if you dive deep and in open waters. I still beleive that it helps having a mimetic suit. Just my 2 cents. I personally use an OMER Mimetic Brown Wet Suit http://blueh20.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/omer_wetsuit_mimetic_med.html which colours I really like.

mellieha · April 23, 2009, 17:24:04 CET

something to add is that sometimes fish tend to be very friendly and sometimes they tend to have seen the devil.

Some months ago we were diving at Mtahleb. There is a reef at 50meters and we saw a very nicely sized grouper easily approachable. Yet the next day we re-went to the place and saw the same or a different grouper in similar sercumstances that saw the devil when saw us.

baghira · April 23, 2009, 17:39:33 CET

Well if I kick your arse today, would you come to kiss me the day after!

mellieha · April 23, 2009, 18:13:34 CET

baghira we were not spearing neither day.

Mtahleb is an excellent fresh water cave site. I repeat fresh water cave dive.

baghira · April 23, 2009, 18:21:01 CET

I did not mean that.
It could have been someone else. Fish won't recognise you for sure.

What u mean freshwater cave dive! I did not get this one.

mellieha · April 23, 2009, 18:29:56 CET

In summer I will take you mate.

There are caves but full of freezing fresh water. Fresh water seeps to the sea. Salinity is greately reduced. One can surface in a couple of these caves and even have a drink.

To my knowledge it is the only place in Malta to have such caves.

They are not very big maybe 2 meters deep and one can immediately notice the fresh water due to the termocline.

they start from 5 meters and some are at 25 meters.

Granitu · April 23, 2009, 18:30:21 CET

me too is it that you go in a sea cave or in a fresh water caVE??