🎒 SPEARGUN

Overview

The Speargun is one of the more intriguing items associated with GTA 6, because an underwater weapon would be a genuine rarity for the series — and because it fits Leonida's reef-and-Keys waters so naturally. A speargun was reportedly visible in the widely-circulated September 2022 development footage, but that material was an unofficial leak, not a Rockstar reveal, so it is treated here as strongly suggestive rather than confirmed. The reliable substance below is the real-world speargun and how the series has handled water combat.

Character & Behaviour

A speargun's whole identity is the place it works: underwater, where ordinary firearms don't. If GTA 6 delivers meaningful underwater shooting — itself only hinted at, not confirmed — a speargun is the obvious tool for it: a slow, single-shot, line-of-sight weapon rewarding a careful approach over spray-and-pray. Its in-game range, reload, damage, and whether the spear is tethered or recoverable are all unpublished, so none is stated here.

What We Know for GTA 6

Two things, both short of confirmation: a speargun-like weapon appeared in the 2022 leak footage, and the same leaks have fuelled expectations of underwater traversal and combat. Neither has been shown in an official trailer, screenshot, or Newswire post, so both remain unconfirmed. What is solid is the setting's fit — a state built on the Florida Keys, reefs, and dive culture is the natural home for an underwater weapon.

Underwater Weapons in the GTA Series

A dedicated underwater weapon would break new ground for GTA. The series has long had water to swim and dive in — GTA V added scuba gear and submersibles, letting players explore an ocean floor dotted with wrecks and collectibles — but it has never paired that with a proper underwater firearm. So a working speargun would be a genuine first, not a returning staple, which is part of why its appearance in the leak generated so much interest.

Real-World History

The speargun grew directly out of the rise of recreational free-diving. Underwater hunting took off among breath-hold divers in France and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s, driving the development of the masks, fins, and snorkels that later fed into scuba. The simplest tool is the Hawaiian sling — essentially an underwater bow, a tube with a rubber loop that propels a separate spear shaft — which emerged in Hawaii in the early 20th century and, notably, became popular in the 1950s among underwater hunters in Florida and the Caribbean, exactly the waters Leonida evokes.

The powered speargun followed quickly. In the mid-1930s Alec Kramarenko patented a spring-propelled underwater gun; in 1947 the Frenchman Georges Beuchat introduced the "Tarzan," the first speargun powered by elastic rubber bands. Italian maker Cressi (founded 1946) was present for many of the era's innovations, and by the 1960s compressed-air pneumatic spearguns offered greater power and precision. To this day recreational spearguns fall into those same two families — band-powered and pneumatic — firing a tethered or recoverable shaft, used almost entirely by free-divers and scuba hunters rather than as a weapon against people. That real-world identity — a quiet, selective hunting tool of the reef — is what would make a GTA speargun feel so distinct from the rest of the arsenal.

How to Obtain

Unconfirmed for GTA 6. No price, vendor, spawn point, or unlock has been announced, and the underlying underwater mechanic isn't confirmed either, so this page lists none rather than guess.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated May 31, 2026.