{"id":142,"date":"2007-10-25T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T08:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/10\/25\/spearing-ulua-with-kyle-nakamoto\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T08:18:02","slug":"spearing-ulua-with-kyle-nakamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Spearing Ulua with Kyle Nakamoto&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  the full moon tonight supposed to be 30% closer to the earth than normal.  and it&#8217;s also supposed to be a lot brighter than normal.  so get outdoors and check it out.  that&#8217;s where i&#8217;m going right now.  have a great evening and get ready for the swells coming this weekend&#8230;.<br \/>\n**i just finished downloading some diving photos i took in bali.  got some sick ones.  wanted to share this sequence of kyle nakamoto spearing an ulua.  the real deal&#8230;.  kyle was filming pretty much the whole time.  he was underwater more than anybody else because when somebody took a drop, he went down with them.  at one point, it must have been frustrating for him because he followed me down a lot an i missed so many fish.  it was kind of funny because he probably could hear me saying &#8220;shit, shit&#8221; down 50&#8242; deep.  i don&#8217;t want to blame my gun but it was only a 100mm picasso and it was firing off to the left.  i had to acutally aim to the right to get a good shot.  and i finally figured that out on the last part of our trip&#8230;.  &#8220;shit, shit&#8221;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5683.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\non the last day, i grabbed my camera to get a few shots of andre&#8217;s dogtooth.  we jumped in at the same time, i had the camera, andre had his fish, and kyle took a speargun just in case.  and lucky he did.  as i was shooting, i seen a school of ulua&#8217;s under me. the water was kind of dirty so it was hard to see.  i called kyle and pointed out the school.  he seen 15 or so under so he took his dive.  the ulua&#8217;s came in to check him out and he lined up on one&#8230;.  i dove down a little and took this shot.  luckily this was my wide angle lens so you can capture everything.  check out the ulua&#8217;s coming in from the right side.  that was just half the school&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5688.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nkyle lined one up, and got a stone shot.  the fish died instantly and as he was bringing up the ulua, an even bigger 60lbs+ giant came up and tried to eat the ulua he speared.  it was nuts&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5693.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthen a huge school of BIG rainbow runners came by.  i went down and got a few shots of it.  i wish i had my gun because i could have gotten one for sure.  they came in so close that i could have touched them.  it was as awesome experience and now that i think about it, i&#8217;d rather have this photo than the fish&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5698.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nnice shot.  this was a pretty big ulua.  right as kyle was about to grab it, the fish made one last kick and came off the spear and sank with it&#8217;s dead weight down to the deep blue&#8230;&#8230;  but who cared, we had a dogtooth and another ulua in the boat already&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5702.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni wasn&#8217;t joking when i said the rainbow runners came right in.  these guys were huge and shooting with at 10mm wide angle, you can imagine how close i was when i took this photo.  it was so beautiful to see&#8230;..  and don&#8217;t forget, this is bali.   not only great for surfing, but great for diving too.  can&#8217;t wait to go back next year&#8230;.<br \/>\n<font color=\"blue\">**by the way, if somebody&#8217;s going to bali anytime soon, please let me know.  i had a custom speargun made by andre and i really want to get it soon.  a friend is going to bali in the end of november to get it for me but i can&#8217;t wait that long.  please!! please!!  at least bring it back to japan for me.  i&#8217;ll give you a free go-naminori t-shirt&#8230;.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. the full moon tonight supposed to be 30% closer to the earth than normal. and it&#8217;s also supposed to be a lot brighter than normal. so get outdoors and check it out. that&#8217;s where i&#8217;m going right now. have a great evening and get ready for the swells coming this weekend&#8230;. **i just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}