UWPhotoKeith
Contributor
If your interested in some local diving history read on. Otherwise the quality of the video and photos will not impress you and otherwise might be a bit boring. I know some of you have had the privilege to dive Schmieder Bank and know first hand what an amazing place it is. I hope to get back there one of these days!
I finally got around to scanning my slides and a video from our 1988 Cordell Expeditions trip to Pt. Sur. At the time we were the first divers to dive the remote seamount following a NOAA survey the year before. The video was produced by the late Harry Sherman (diver/photographer) from Cordell Expeditions. The video and some of my photos capture the culture of our group, work hard, have fun. We accomplished a lot of serious science work but also had a good time doing it and did not take ourselves overly serious which made these trips a lot fun on top of the exhilaration of diving where few have been!
Both my photos and the video are extremely rough by todays standards but thinking back to what we accomplished, it was pretty amazing! Most of us dove to 120-200 feet, 3 miles off shore, in wetsuits with double 72 CF tanks with a single manifold and mixed our own nitrox using the NOAA Diving Manual as our reference. We did all the calculations by hand on yellow pad of paper using our pressure gauges. My camera at the time was a Nikonos V and a gigantic Ikellite strobe with just 36 frames of film to shoot on each dive with no chimping! If I only knew then what I know now….
Blog Entry: http://keithflood.com/?page_id=1596
Still Photos: 1988 Pt. Sur Expedition - Keith Flood
Harry Sherman Video:
I finally got around to scanning my slides and a video from our 1988 Cordell Expeditions trip to Pt. Sur. At the time we were the first divers to dive the remote seamount following a NOAA survey the year before. The video was produced by the late Harry Sherman (diver/photographer) from Cordell Expeditions. The video and some of my photos capture the culture of our group, work hard, have fun. We accomplished a lot of serious science work but also had a good time doing it and did not take ourselves overly serious which made these trips a lot fun on top of the exhilaration of diving where few have been!
Both my photos and the video are extremely rough by todays standards but thinking back to what we accomplished, it was pretty amazing! Most of us dove to 120-200 feet, 3 miles off shore, in wetsuits with double 72 CF tanks with a single manifold and mixed our own nitrox using the NOAA Diving Manual as our reference. We did all the calculations by hand on yellow pad of paper using our pressure gauges. My camera at the time was a Nikonos V and a gigantic Ikellite strobe with just 36 frames of film to shoot on each dive with no chimping! If I only knew then what I know now….
Blog Entry: http://keithflood.com/?page_id=1596
Still Photos: 1988 Pt. Sur Expedition - Keith Flood
Harry Sherman Video: