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International Underwater Spearfishing Association
Members of the Board
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Larry Carter
President of the Board |
Larry is a retired Chief of Police serving
for 32 years in the Los Angeles
metropolitan area. He has been diving
since the late 1950’s and has had the
pleasure and honor of diving with some of
the sports legends such as the late great
Al Schneppershoff and Yas Ikeda as well as
Bob Stanbery, Charlie Sturgill, Gary
Thompson, and Terry Maas.
Larry has held two IUSA World Records the
most recent being a 122 pound Sailfish. He
is a contributing writer to Hawaii Skin
Diver Magazine often writing about Spearo
adventures in Baja Mexico. He has just
finished two terms as the President of the
Los Angeles Fathomiers a spearfishing club
having approximately a hundred members.
Larry had devoted his life to the support
and service of his metropolitan community
and he now plans to bring that same level
of service to the Spearfishing Community.
He encourages any and all input you may
have in that regard.
Please read Larry's
Rules,
Records & You Article
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Erik Banados
Membership Chairman and Records Committee |
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Erik’s education is
in Business Administration with an
emphasis on Marketing. He is currently an
Associate Vice President of a Management
Service Organization specializing in
Government Health Programs. Born in Peru,
Erik started Spearfishing and “noodling”
at the age of 8 in the rivers of the
Amazon. Coming to the U.S. when he was 13
he continued his freediving in Southern
California.
In 2003 Erik became a member of the Los
Angeles Fathomiers. Due to his personal
charisma and management skills Erik became
Vice President a year later and then
served two terms as President greatly
enhancing all aspects of the organization.
He currently sits on the Advisory Board.
Erik was recently appointed to the
position of Competitive Chairman for the
GLACD organization. In that position he
looks forward to bringing a Los Angeles
based Spearfishing Nationals to our
shores.
Erik is a member of the L.A. Underwater
Hockey Team and is an avid competition
diver as well as a big game spearo. He is
enthusiastic about being a member of the
IUSA and hopes to bring the same level of
committed service to IUSA divers world
wide, as he brought to the L.A. Fathomiers.
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Dr. Mark Steele
Research Biologist, UCSB
Scientific Committee |
Mark Steele holds a PhD in Marine Biology
from the University of California at Santa
Barbara. He currently works as a research
biologist at the University of California
at Santa Barbara, where he studies
population dynamics of marine and
estuarine fishes. He has also worked at
UCLA and the University of Rhode Island.
His work on fishes has been done in
Southern California, Baja California,
Jamaica, and the Bahamas.
Mark began snorkeling at age 8, but he
didn't take up freediving and spearfishing
until he started college in 1985 at UC San
Diego. In 1990 he landed a world record
North American yellowtail (68.3 lbs),
shore-diving off Boomer's Beach, La Jolla,
California. His current spearfishing
focuses mainly on white seabass in
Southern California, but he occasionally
finds the time to venture down to Baja for
more exotic quarry. His goal is to
encourage responsible spearfishing
practices by imparting a sound
understanding of the ecology of the marine
systems that we interact with.
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Joseph Kalohi
Records Committee |
Joe works for Raytheon Systems Company as
a Technical Support Engineer designing
electronic circuits and utilizing CAD
software for producing the specialized
printed wiring boards or hybrids found in
the defense/aerospace industry.
He was raised around the waters of Oahu,
Hawaii, and started to explore the shallow
reefs when he was 10 years old. For the
past 22 years, he has been an avid scuba
diver (divemaster / rescue diver) and
amateur underwater photographer. Joe plays
with computer graphics or speargun design
when he has a chance. As a member of the
Los Angeles Fathomiers, he enjoys
freediving the islands along the southern
California coast.
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Luiz Antonio Pereira
Records Committee and Europe/South America
Liason |
This native of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
started freediving spearfishing at 14 and
has dove off many countries in the
Americas, Europe and Africa. Luiz was one
of the founders of the International
Bluewater Spearfishing Committee (IBSRC),
where he sits in many committees. Past
secretary and vice-president of the
Brazilian Spearfishing Confederation (CBCS),
he was instrumental in the introduction of
bluewater hunting in his country as well
as the development of the concept of
selective catch rules in Brazilian
competitions. A journalist by trade, he's
a member of the Clube dos Marimbás, the
most traditional spearfishing club in
Brazil.
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Gary Thompson
Secretary & Records Committee |
Educated in the physical sciences, Gary
has worked a number of years in Academics
and Aerospace. In spite of his prestigious
educational accomplishments, Garys love
for the sea has resulted in he being a
Commercial Diver for the majority of his
professional life.
Gary has been a competitive Spearfisherman
for thirty years and has won more Greater
Los Angeles Council of Divers (GLACD)
meets than any other diver in its history.
Gary has also been a major competitor in
15 US National Spearfishing Championships.
He has been a member of the Los Angeles
Fathomiers for over thirty years and holds
the highest rank a member can hold.
Among many great diving accomplishments,
Gary was awarded the prestigious US
National Spearfishing Athlete of the Year
award in 1978. Along with Gary’s IUSA
Secretarial duties he was appointed as the
Chairman of the Spearfishing Athlete of
the Year program in 2003. In spite of
diving nearly every day of his life
commercially, Gary pursues game fish in
Baja, Australia, and other far corners of
the world.
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Skip Hellen
Records Committee |
Skip has over 35 years of diving and
spearfishing experience. He started diving
with the late Al Schneppershoff in 1965
while still in high school. Skip had an
exciting professional baseball career as a
pitcher with the LA Dodgers and the NY
Mets.
His vision for the IUSA is to help elevate
the ethics and sportsmanship of
spearfishing to the highest possible
level, and help restore the worlds oceans
to their once abundant state. He has the
current IUSA Spearfishing World Record for
White Sea Bass, 80 lbs., taken at Palos
Verdes, California on March 12, 1994. Skip
says, "The ocean has given a lot to me,
now it's time to give something back."
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Sheri Daye
Records Committee
Sheri lives in Boca Raton,
Florida. She has Mechanical Engineering and
MBA degrees, and works as a full-time manager
for IBM. During the weekends, she can usually
be found underwater, somewhere between Miami
and Palm Beach. She is a member of the
Longfins Spearfishing Club where she enjoys
the camaraderie of her spearfishing brothers.
She also enjoys writing and has published
articles in Spearfishing Magazine and Hawaiian
Skin Diver.
Sheri holds several world records and
participates in a few tournaments each year,
but her favorite pastime is simply spending
the day on the water with good friends. The
more she spearfishes, the more she has grown
to respect nature and hopes that it can be
enjoyed for generations to come. Sheri wants
to give back to this sport which has given so
much to her, and thereby, looks forward to
working on the IUSA Board as a way to
contribute.
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Joe Tobin
Records Committee
Joe Tobin is a Firefighter-Paramedic in
Central California and started freediving and
spearfishing in the chilly waters of the
Monterey Bay at age fifteen. Joe’s freediving
experience spans nearly 30 years and includes
many successful bluewater spearfishing
expeditions along the California coast,
Mexico, Costa Rica, New Zealand and Australia.
Joe holds a former IUSA world record for
California yellowtail and the current
California state record for albacore tuna.
His many underwater photographs and
articles related to freediving and
spearfishing have appeared in Hawaii Skin
Diver, International Freediving and
Spearfishing News, California Diving
News and Western Outdoor News.
As a young new diver just learning to hunt,
Joe remembers the generosity and wisdom of the
older divers around him. Joe sees his work at
the IUSA as another way of giving back to the
community of freedivers from which he has
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Contact Info:
IUSA
31169 Nassau Court
Temecula, CA 92591
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