SOME NEW IDEAS 



deKberately as a person would from a slow moving object such as the 

 arm of a derrick. 



When Richard du Pont discovered that he could not spear fish on the 

 bottom, he decided to do something about it at once. He procured a 

 piece of brass tube and some steel rods. He cut barbed points on the 

 rods, thus making miniature harpoons, then attached pieces of flat rubber 

 to the rear end of the tube in such a way that the rear end of the har- 

 poon, which passed through the tube could be held in the rubber and 

 drawn back in the same manner as the small boy's sHng shot. This 

 worked admirably, and Richard became quite proficient at "shooting" 

 fish with his apparatus. 



This diversion leads us away from our main interest, and towards a 

 new sport presently being promoted— the shooting of fish by diving 

 without any equipment other than goggles, a "gun," and a weight hang- 

 ing on the belt to enable the hunter to walk on the bottom so long as 

 he can hold his breath. Bows and arrows are being oif ered for submarine 

 hunting and can be found at some of the leading sporting goods stores, 

 along with goggles which enable the diver to see clearly. 



Whether for fish-shooting or photography, baiting could be studied 

 to great advantage. The diver could discover how bait, dropped from 

 above is received by the fish. He might learn the answer to that mystery, 

 why do fish bite at the turn of the tide? Are they absent at all other 

 times, or are they just not interested? What remarkable possibilities now 

 have been opened by submarine photography to research on fish and 

 their attitude towards hook, bait and line! 



When your bait is being removed over and over again without your 

 being able to feel a bite, who is taking it? The fish you want to catch or 

 some little fellows with mouths not large enough to take in the hook? 

 Let your friend do the fishing and you go down and sit by the hook 

 with a camera and bring back some real evidence. 



