Skookumchuck
Contributor
In June I bought an inexpensive video camera and not so inexpensive Ikelite housing for it to record an upcoming warm water trip. I knew that I wouldn't get very good results in our water without even more expensive lights but used it to record one dive at Tuwanek and then brought it on a trip to the Island. R2t, Walrus2 and myself had planned to dive Race rocks with Ogden Point charters but the wind was blowing to hard and the plan was changed to Senanus Island in the Inlet. Our first dive was very good, vis was more than 50' and after first thinking that Erin had put us in the wrong spot we dropped over the wall at 80' and began to see sponges. Our second dive was up Finlayson arm at McCurdy Point and I got what I hoped was decent footage of a wolf-eel, footage that I thought I'd never see because right after taking it I lost the camera. We searched for a short while but gave up soon. I left my number with local shops on the long shot that it might be found. Two months later, after long having given up faint hope, Al, "Hyperlimits" pm's me that someone found a camera. I call the guy and sure enough its mine. His Mom found it while walking her dog at Willis Point, not sure how far that is from McCurdy Point but a long way. He called all the local dive shops, including Erin's, but no one knew who owned it. Thankfully the day after I lost it I dove with Swankenstien and bumped into Al at, wouldn't you know it, Willis point, and told him about my act of idiocy. Thanks Al.
The video without lights is poor and the camera came with editing software that requires the patience of a saint to use. Since my beatification is some way off yet the video is mostly unedited. YouTube - Senanus Island cloud sponges I'll try to edit the McCurdy Point video before I post it.
The video without lights is poor and the camera came with editing software that requires the patience of a saint to use. Since my beatification is some way off yet the video is mostly unedited. YouTube - Senanus Island cloud sponges I'll try to edit the McCurdy Point video before I post it.