{"id":103768,"date":"2019-08-22T05:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103768"},"modified":"2019-08-22T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:12:50","slug":"free-diving-hawaii-the-dive-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103768","title":{"rendered":"Free Diving Hawaii: The Dive Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7203.jpg\")
\u00a0i have a dive flag on my boat when ever i’m swimming or free diving. \u00a0and the law states that any other boats must say at least 50 feet away from a boat that has a dive flag like this. \u00a0the reason is so you don’t run over somebody coming up from a free dive or scuba dive… \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.50.02-AM-663x373.jpg\")
\u00a0so the last time i went free diving off Waikiki, i had my dive flag up, and i was diving well within 50′ of my boat. \u00a0i took a drop and was stalking dinner…![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.52.00-AM-663x410.jpg\")
\u00a0i stayed down for 2 minutes trying to think what kind of fish i wanted. \u00a0unfortunately, dinner had to wait because i was running out of breath. \u00a0 \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.51.19-AM-663x374.jpg\")
\u00a0i started to surface and i felt something weird. \u00a0it was like a big dark shadow was over me. \u00a0maybe a big shark again??? \u00a0 \u00a0nope! \u00a0it was much worst!!!!![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.50.39-AM-663x372.jpg\")
some freaking asshole was driving his catamaran right over me with 2 outboard motors full throttle! \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.50.54-AM-663x403.jpg\")
\u00a0i had to duck under the 40′ catamaran to keep the motors from ripping my body up like ground meat. \u00a0all this time, i had no idea my gopro was running so when i got home and seen the video, it was much more closer than i thought. \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.51.30-AM-663x438.jpg\")
\u00a0i came up and yelled to the boat that just ran me over “what the fuck!!! \u00a0fuck you!!! \u00a0fuck you!!!!” \u00a0excuse my language but when i’m about to die from somebody’s stupidity, i’m more than pissed off! \u00a0if i were on land, i would have shot the guy with my spear gun in a second. \u00a0 the guy didn’t even stop too see if i was ok! \u00a0so pissed! \u00a0omg, that was just another close call on my life. \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-11.52.22-AM-663x408.jpg\")
i was freaking out that i could have died, but i was still focused on dinner. \u00a0took my final dive and took a shot at this fish and missed. \u00a0i wasn’t too bummed because something was telling me that it wasn’t the time for the fish to die, neither me too. \u00a0so yes, life can just end in a freak accident like this. \u00a0and it’s scary to know that one of my dive friends died like this just a couple years ago. \u00a0i know exactly which boat ran me over and when i see the captain, i’m going to punch him in the face and say “you almost killed me so you’re lucky with just a punch!” \u00a0i guess i’m still a little upset because that could have been the last day of my dream life. \u00a0and that would have sucked….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0i have a dive flag on my boat when ever i’m swimming or free diving. \u00a0and the law states that any other boats must say at least 50 feet away from a boat that has a dive flag like this. \u00a0the reason is so you don’t run over somebody coming up from a free dive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}