Patent ID: 8099795

Claim:
A shield to be worn to distribute the forces of loading a spear into a spear gun for use in spear fishing over a body area of a person, the body area consisting of at least one of the chest area of a person and the leg area of a person, and comprising a shaped unit, said shaped unit including a force absorbing cushion layer, a force distributing stiff layer and a water proof layer, as between the force absorbing cushion layer and the force distributing stiff layer the force distributing stiff layer being adjacent the body area and the force absorbing cushion layer covering a major portion of the force distributing stiff layer opposite the body area, the waterproof layer substantially covering the cushion layer and the force distributing stiff layer, whereby during the loading of a spear into a spear gun the butt of the spear gun is against the waterproof layer adjacent the force absorbing cushion layer.