Word: spearfishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peaceful Coexistence. In Point Lonsdale, Victoria, addressing the third annual convention of the Skin Divers' and Spear-fishermen's Association of Australia, Delegate Dick Charles happily reported that "bad blood between spearfishermen and anglers in New South Wales is dying out; no longer do they brawl and flatten each other with oars...
Some spearmen (also known as bottom scratchers, gogglers, frogmen) satisfy themselves with homemade spears, inexpensive flippers and masks. But there is a growing tendency among expert spearfishermen (such as those shown on the following pages) to mechanize with aqualungs ($115 to $275) for underwater breathing, to use powerful spear guns charged with steel springs or compressed...
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