Lake Mendota

[FreediveWI]

After a quick warm-up in the hot showers, we decided to leave the guns behind and grab the monofins for a little play time in deeper water.

We originally wanted to hit the "deep hole", which is really only 80' deep, but the winds picked up too much and we had white caps on the lake. We moved in closer, to around 50', and decided to set a training line and play around with the video camera.

It was amazing how warm we stayed while actually swimming around! ;D If we had spent the day just freediving, instead of spearfishing, I know I could have lasted 5-6 hours without a problem.

We had to call it quits after about an hour because our guy in the boat was cold, but we were pretty toasty in the water by this time.

Here's a shot a friend took of me and my new monofin.
Next time I'll let him use my wide angle lens and get a better picture.

jon