Hold your breath, stalk the reef or the open blue, and take a single clean shot, the oldest hunt on Earth done on lungs alone.
Learn bluewater hunting where the drop-off into deep blue is minutes from shore.
Deep blue water and a steep drop-off minutes from shore make Kona one of the world's classrooms for bluewater pelagic hunting.
Living sceneMeccaLearn on the coast where sport spearfishing began in the 1920s, and the mask and fins were born with it.
Modern sport spearfishing was invented on this French-Italian Mediterranean coast in the 1920s, and the mask, fins and snorkel were all born here from the hunt.
BirthplaceHeritageLearn to hunt wahoo, tuna and dorado in the warm blue of the Marlin Capital of the World.
The 'Marlin Capital of the World' opens onto wahoo, tuna and dorado in warm blue water, a proving ground for serious bluewater hunters.
Living sceneThis Atlas exists because there is a real difference between a school that teaches you and a good-looking website — and too much of the internet is the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what we'll tell you straight when it doesn't.
If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.
This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.