Awesome dive at sund rock

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Awesome dive at sund rock

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So I finally got some of my shorter clips to upload. I got around three hours of footage on our recient trip to the little yellow house and sund rock. but youtube frowns on three hour videos shot in 1080p so i am forced to upload it in much shorter and downgraded clips but you can at least tell whats going on. enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy6WH_QUP0M[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPYbOhyfcU[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUc_1NAI8S0[/youtube]




[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npROdRk5l3g[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7bHIem3TQU[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3H1XXhmvc0[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlV3N3vLJ0Q[/youtube]



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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy0bFMRKguQ[/youtube]
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what you useing for video lights? nice video... very cool octo vids
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Thanks you for sharing these videos. That is amazing footage of the soaring GPO - you are very lucky to see let alone capture it with such great video footage. Well done!

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Wow, the first video looks like something that should be on the discovery channel!
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Awesome footage! That octo flight is totally Rad!

Please tell us about the rig you are using.
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Dusty2 wrote:Awesome footage! That octo flight is totally Rad!

Please tell us about the rig you are using.

I use an ikelite housing and 100 watt lighting system with a cannon vixia HD video camera.
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Cool you have the same Camera as me.. Is your video light a single or a dual setup.. Being able to video an octo like that is prob 1 in a Million .. It looked like it was Hovering forever, but you were Probably swimming like crazy to stay along side of it
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Great Shots Aaron!!!That was a Great trip! I know I had a good time after the PITA traffic getting there... The diving on Saturday was worth every minute of the Friday Aft. drive... Thanks!!!
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WOW!
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Thanks for sharing--way cool!
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I had such a great time on that trip I decided to come back this weekend... I went back to that wreck yesterday, nothing there. But I did see 2 large GPO at octopus hole out and about, and the Wolfies were out in force late yesterday at Sund Rock. I think I saw 8-9 out in the open swimming around but my light flooded so no video, I did get some great shots though.

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i have only two words to describe that first octo vid:

F*¢KING AWESOME!!
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That octo video was beautiful......what a magnificent experience!
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Your first video of the GPO swimming is awesome! You did a really great job of capturing different angles and POVs.
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ABSOTIVELY WORLD CLASS VIDEOS! Wow!!! :notworthy: Thanks for sharing! :supz:
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So not worthy . . .
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Thanks for the replies. :taco: I am still posting videos. The other Soaring with giants video we took the next day. I couldnt believe lightning struck twice.
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Great Job! You got some amazing shots. Keep them coming!
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Agent 47 wrote:Thanks for the replies. :taco: I am still posting videos. The other Soaring with giants video we took the next day. I couldnt believe lightning struck twice.
Listening to you tell the story the other day when I was getting air; this epic video was not what entered my head! Wow Aaron this is remarkable stuff!!
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Excellent GPO video and very nice. You lucky dog you!
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I stopped in at Evergreen Scuba today and watched some of these videos on a larger screen with Aaron. If you think that they look good here on NWDC you should see them at full size.....really, really nice!
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COOOOOOL

those are much better behaved then the damn tree ones
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Dude, awesome videos!

All you need is some voice over work by Sigourney Weaver or James Earl Jones and you have yourself an episode of Planet Earth :notworthy:
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Wonderful videos. I enjoy the music you set it to.

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Amazing footage. Just remember that all the individuals there are currently being severely stressed by low dissolved oxygen levels.

Making them exert themselves is putting a lot of stress on them.
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