It comes to being that while many boat owners have special licenses, neither spear-fishers from shore nor low powered ocean going light dingy require a license hence no training either !
I am a bow fisher apart fly fisher, and i share my legal saltwater region
with all spear-fishers,however,
most spear fishersuse a hand spear or spear-gun
but the essence , they are "DIVERS".
One of the things i saw from the rocks i was waiting on was a person move in swimming and he pointed to a flag on a buoy that was obviously not as large and distracting as the type of flag in the following about spear fishing safety.
DID YOU KNOW (and how many didn't) ,there is a type of
"international standard" safety flagfor spear fishing pairscalled a
type-A or Alpha flag !Transport safety PDF document for spear fishers
maritimemanagement.transport.nsw.gov.au/documents/mmc-dive-safe-strategy-2014.pdf
URL: section: "Safe spearfishing".
.."Avoid propeller strike. To alert other vessels in the vicinity that there are divers on the surface ensure your safety vessel clearly displays the international diver-down flag "A" and that all divers in the water are towing a highly visible float with a safety flag attached."...
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-skills/fishing-safely
