Video Camera Travels 1000 Miles on Sea Turtle's Back

The Turtle Post Office is too slow for most mammals.

 

the guy that lost the camera, is his middle name ick?? crazy!

 

This is interesting to say the least. I dive and record HD video, after spending thousands and thousands of dollars on a housing and then needing to still purchase a video camera – the thought of losing the camera on a dive is horrendous.

Underwater video doesn’t generally have a strap (as in a loop), these tend to be larger items that simply can not be permitted to hang from a diver as they would damage reef’s. The do however have a short tether strap in case of an emergency - just not sure how it would catch on an animal since it does not loop.

I dove a ship wreck in the Caymans a few years back, bubbles were going 90 degrees to the side rather than up – the current was phenomenal. We should not have been on the dive, actually we did call it early as it was not safe. I had a death grip on my video – the film is amazing to watch…and utterly scary for fellow divers to see. I’d love to hear the full story of how he lost it – something tell’s me there is sheer stupidity involved.

 

Doesn't that almost always go without saying?

 

Yeah, that was a cool story. Here is what I read this morning.

The odyssey: Camera survives ocean trip to Fla. - Yahoo! News

Brian