Sharkshield

i have a sharkshield and on lots of occassions i get "belted" by it as it settles next to or on top of me while looking around on the sea floor. A mate who also bought one said the retailer told him to shorten it up but i cant see it working the same, while discussing this over a beer someone else said to clip it to the side of the flipper to keep it away a bit more. is there anyone else with any experience in this area and a bit of advise?

Cheers Malfunction :-)

Contributed by Malfunction added 2006-02-27

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Bunyip added 2006-06-23

I've got a "short tail" scuba version of the shark zapper, and I strap the tail to my fin via loops of elastic shock cord I got from a sailing chandlery shop (salt water resistant). Some of my buddies use loops of cable ties, but my "tail" kept coming out of those. When I'm done my dive, I attach my BCD to the boat via rope and clip and pull the leg strap off my fin and out of the loops and let it and the tail dangle from the BCD. I clip the battery to my bcd too. So then I can wriggle out of the BCD while the zapper is still on, and climb back into the boat still covered by the zap field.

For the long tail version - one of my buddies uses a small round orange float, about 8cm in diameter with a hole in the middle and ties that to the end of the tail. This allows the tail to go with the current and it doesn't zap him nearly as much. However, two floats, will have the tail zapping you on the surface. So start with a small float and build up until it behaves. Apparently attaching the float also reduces wear on the long tail zapper. He got the float from a fishing tackle shop.

Hope that helps.

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