Spearfishing on SCUBA is legal in the United States, but not in most countries. Familiarize yourself with the local regulations before spearfishing on SCUBA while abroad. We believe that for a variety of reasons, spearfishing on SCUBA is considerably more dangerous than freediving, particularly for beginning divers, so we doubly recommend that you speak to your SCUBA dive instructors before doing so.

The one point we can make, however, is that it is unwise to freedive-spearfish after scuba diving. The ambient nitrogen remaining in the body tissues post scuba diving can result in decompression sickness where micro-bubbles get recompressed and then consequently expand upon the rapid ascent during an ensuing freedive. We recommend that you wait at least 12 hours after a scuba dive before you start freediving again.