Samantha likes to go ‘camera fishing’. That is what she calls it. It isn’t fishing for cameras. She attaches her waterproof video camera to a dog lead and dips it into the water to record underwater footage. This technique has provided her (a non-diver?) with a view of the marine life below the surface at The Bluff at Victor Harbor. She even seems to have managed to catch a fish this way.
Samantha sent us some of her recent video footage, along with some stills: –
Viewing the underwater video footage can be quite ‘dizzying’. The use of a camera suspended from a dog lead is not ideal. The camera tends to spin a lot, and there is no control over its movement. There is no way of knowing just what is being recorded until after the event. Much of what is recorded is either out of focus or obscured by kelp. It is also recorded side-on much of the time.
Despite that, Samantha still manages to film some of the fish and the underwater terrain. Certainly, her video footage could do with some major editing to make it entertaining.
My first attempt at some editing of the footage can be found at https://1drv.ms/v/c/f49cda2ca5c2599b/ET2T261zM7NBnhc-JzeBuCYBh8Sb8CrNV7ksyqPfZjBjew
Perhaps I can lift a few stills from the videos. Here are some stills of views from the Bluff jetty: –
Samantha’s ‘camera fishing’ technique is quite enterprising. We may, however, be able to improve on that since we have two underwater cameras that can be lowered into the water to record what is there.