Rjukan
- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship, Norway
- Specs:
- ( 160 ft ) 960 tons, 20 crew
- Sunk:
- Tuesday December 26, 1876
ran aground in bad weather - no casualties - Depth:
- 25 ft
low scattered wooden debris, 200 yards offshore
There are essentially two choices of weapon for spearfishing: pole spears and spearguns. The speargun is probably the first thing that comes to mind for most readers - conjuring up images of Seahunt, James Bond, and countless other TV shows and movies. Everyone knows what a speargun looks like - a roughly pistol-shaped device that fires a two-foot steel dart. Everyone probably also has a pretty good idea what a pole spear looks like, but an underwater pole spear is a different in form and use from a terrestrial javelin. Rather than throwing it ( which would be difficult to impossible underwater ) a pole spear ( or "Hawaiian sling" ) has a loop of rubber tubing at the butt end that is used to launch it directly from the hand, the shaft sliding through the loosened hand without ever leaving it.
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