Northwest Dive Club

GearHead wrote:Very well done! As in your other videos, the drone shots add overall perspective and narrative quality.
I need to get back to some warmer water soon.

Thanks GearHead! I need to be back in warmer water soon too.

Thanks Billz. Yeah, I couldn't get close to the garden eels either. My camera has a 10X optical zoom, so I was off a ways and fully zoomed in (also why it's a little fuzzy). Then I went back on a second dive with the wide angle lens to get the scene of the garden eel colony. Prior to this, I sat the...

I'm in too!

Beautiful pics as usual! Thanks for sharing. That's quite a special place.

I was tempted to put this in the dive reports section, but since it took me a year to get this one done, the video section seems more appropriate. Anyway, this time last year I went on my first liveaboard trip to Belize on the Sun Dancer II which is now a part of the Aggressor fleet. Now I'm hooked ...

Thanks for the cool trip report. It seems like the hammer heads were more cooperative. Really nice shots. I've been told hammerheads don't like bubbles. By your photos, this doesn't seem to be the case. Or, was it the allure of food that made them ignore the bubbles?

H20doc, sorry to hear about your camera. That's one of the worst feelings! A long while ago I flooded my Nikon D80 in an ikelite housing. For the beginning of the dive I kept wondering why I couldn't get it into focus! Then I saw all the water inside. That's why I got into doing video! Because I kil...

Great stuff Gdog! Brings back memories. I like the tarpon closeup and the arrow crab inside the coral. The basket stars are such a crazy creature!

Gdog wrote:

YellowEye wrote:Nice pictures George!!!!!!!!!!?

Lol. Ok...trip report and pics coming probably today!

Okay, good. Somehow I thought I missed them.

I'm officially out this week. Will be back next week!

I'm a maybe. Office is moving on Friday so I have to see where things stand tomorrow morning.

Wanted to share one more photo that's kinda cool. Best to click and view the larger version for perspective.

2/21 Sunrise Beach, 20 feet.

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Waiting line for parking.

Perhaps we'll have to implement some sort of drone air traffic control! I was mainly using the club dive as an excuse to practice flying the thing and figure out the exposure and other controls as I just upgraded to a newer one. I can share the video files as well.

I'm planning to attend to meet folks but I won't be diving. I'm going to bring the drone and get some aerial scuba diver footage. Let me know if you want your surface swim scrutinized from the air.

Let me know if there's anything else needed I can bring.

I'm in!

Very cool.

Well done! That is really impressive and quite an experience. Something I've never seen before.

NIce shaggy mouse! I dived the north side today and found it less than lively. Although I did spot 4 bay pipefish. There's a GPO under the carousel boat. I found no lumpies as well. And, no eel grass either.

Nice feather duster action and song choice! Also nice to get the camera behind the camera shots. Watching you adjust the intensity of your lights reminded me the sola remora triggers I've often considered getting. http://www.xit404.com/collections/remote-triggers/products/sola-remora-remote-trigger-...

2/14 Redondo. 20 feet, a bit cloudy.

Cool shots. I haven't looked at my video yet, but I don't think I got anything worthwhile. I spent time messing with an macromate flip macro lens to get superduper closeup, but I had to practically hit things over the head with it to get it into focus. I'll take a look at it this weekend. For some r...

Yeah, bad traffic. Just arrived.