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Knifing Pits And Spearing Fish

A year of big fish and bigger barrels with Gold Coast bruiser Brett Livingston!

cinema // Mar 10, 2018
Words by stab
Reading Time: < 1 minute

Some men just know how to live. 

Here’s a look at the a year in the life of Gold Coast tube pig, and Mad Huey, Brett Livingston’s knockabout program, chasing big, blue, warm water barrels, packing pits at home and in Indo, while filling his freezer with fresh filets, spearing his weight in prime pescado. 

“Offswing” was shot “mostly over the last year, but some of the clips may be a few years old,” Brett tells Stab. “I work as a lifeguard here on the [Gold Coast]. Did two back-to-back boat trips on Sibon Explorer, in the Ments last year. The year before that, did a trip to West Aus and the pooey water clips are from a couple semi secret slabs in Bali. Most of the dive clips are from either out around the Gold Coast,  diving on my boat that I rebuilt over a year and a half, and some are from Fiji, Indo, and the Great Barrier Reef.”

 

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