The water darkens and a voice in your ear is telling you to come up. Oxygen is low but one more fish and one more minute means one more meal. Thunder rumbles the current and changing weather becomes the most immediate danger. Sharks and a low oxygen tank seem like an afterthought as one diver rushes to reach the surface, to rejoin his crew. This is Catching Hell.

A hundred miles off the coast of Hudson, Florida in the Gulf of Mexico, you’ll find the Middle Grounds. Made up of underwater structures rarely visited by man including shipwrecks, massive coral reefs and bottomless sinkholes, it’s the backdrop for one of the most dangerous careers in the world: commercial spear fishing.
Spearfishers risk their lives scuba diving to extreme depths in order to hunt down and pierce some of the ocean’s most sought after, and expensive fish.