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International Underwater Spearfishing Association
Members of the Board
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Larry Carter
Past
President of the Board (2002-2010) |
Larry was a retired Chief of Police serving
for 32 years in the Los Angeles
metropolitan area. He dove since the late
1950’s and 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 held two IUSA World Records the most
recent being a 122 pound Sailfish. He was a contributing writer to Hawaii Skin
Diver Magazine often writing about Spearo
adventures in Baja Mexico. He served two terms as the President of the
Los Angeles Fathomiers a spearfishing club
having approximately one-hundred members.
Larry devoted his life to the support
and service of his metropolitan community
and when serving as IUSA President, he
brought that same level of service to the
Spearfishing Community. He was a
respected leaders, and he will be missed
by many. His contributions to IUSA
will live on forever.
Please read Larry's
Rules,
Records & You Article
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Sheri Daye
President of the Board
Sheri lives in Boca Raton,
Florida. She has Mechanical Engineering and
MBA degrees, and works as a full-time manager
for a major corporation. She is a Freedive
Spearfishing National Champ multiple world
record holder, and host of Speargun Hunter on
Outdoor Channel. She produces and hosts
an annual Dive Expo in Ft. Lauderdale called
"The Blue Wild" with proceeds to charity.
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 safely and for generations to come.
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Andy Ansin
Secretary/Membership Chairman and Records
Committee |
Andrew Ansin
grew up in the water in Miami, Florida. In
high school, college and years afterwards,
he swam competitively and competed in
water polo on the national level.
Following in the tradition of Floridian
spearfishers the Pinder Brothers,
Andrew’s early years of spearfishing
were spent in the Bahamas free shafting
lobster, snapper and grouper. In 2006,
Andrew used a free shaft launched from
what is locally called a “Hawaiian
sling” to land the world record black
grouper. After picking up a spear gun and
training with Kirk Krack, 5 more world
records followed.
Andrew has had the good fortune to train
and learn from the best. Spearfishing
partners have included multiple world
record holder Sheri Daye, former World
& Spanish National champion Joseba
Kerejeta, renowned Mexican spearfisher and
mentor Ramon Guerrero and multiple world
record holder Valente Baena.
Living in
Miami Beach, Florida provides access to
great fishing grounds and variable
conditions that have provided Andrew with
a background that he applies on
spearfishing trips around the world.
French Polynesia, Vanuatu, both coats of
Mexico, Panama and Costa Rica are a few of
the locations where Andrew has spearfished.
Notable catches include a 288 pound yellow
fin tuna and a black marlin of over 400
pounds.
Andrew
welcomes the opportunity as an IUSA board
member to give back to the sport that has
given him so much. Andrew is particularly
interested in supporting IUSA’s efforts
to promote safety in spearfishing and
respect for fishing regulations around the
globe.
email: Andy
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Trevor Broderick
Treasurer & Records Committee
Bio - Coming Soon
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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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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
shores from the Americas, Europe, South
Pacific and Africa. Ted, as Luiz is also
known, 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 also one of founders and first
president of FIPSA (International
Skindiving Spearfishing Association),
the new world spearfishing governing
body. Ted 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 and technical adviser for
spearfishing gear manufacturers, he's a
member of the Clube dos Marimb¨˘s, the
most traditional spearfishing club in
Brazil.
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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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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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Dr. Joe Farlo
Dr. Joe Farlo is a
Cardiac and Pediatric Anesthesiologist who
practices in Los Angeles California.
He started freediving at 10 and moved
from New York City to Southern California in
1992 so that he could dive year round.
In 2006 he joined the Los Angeles
Fathomiers diving club where he met some of
his closest friends and mentors.
Dr Farlo has served on the LA
Fathomiers board since 1997 and travels with
club members almost every month in search of
blue water pelagic species as well as diving
coastal for white seabass.
During the recent
Marine Life Protection Act Initiative
(MLPA), Dr Farlo became the key player in
protecting Los Angeles spearfishing heritage
sites.
He established a local campaign to
keep rocky point open.
Rocky Point on the Palos Verdes
peninsula became a contentious battleground
for over 2 years. Dr. Farlo brought to bear
valid scientific arguments for moving the
reserve to another location with less
cultural and socioeconomic importance
ultimately influencing elected state and
federal officials to pass resolutions to
exclude rocky point from marine protection.
Rocky Point in the end stood alone as
the only area in the Southern California
MLPA process that was won by pro-fishing
activism. Although Dr Farlo has speared many
trophy pelagic species, the successful fight
for the heritage of our sport stands as his
greatest accomplishment in spearfishing.
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