How do all these gopros get lost?

[bryanmc57]

I keep reading about people losing gopros and different dive ops talking about all the gopros they find in the course of a year. How exactly are these cameras getting lost? Is there some mechanical problem, lack of attention or ???

I've been thinking about diving with one and would really like to keep it for a while if I do.

 

[3D diver]

My guess is relying on a single point of attachment. Things break, screws come loose, cameras aren't attached correctly in the first place, etc. I use fishing line as a safety lanyard between my camera and tray, and have seen cameras dangling more than once.

 

[divad]

They...?

 

[divad]

. How exactly are these cameras getting lost?

They are children of the damned.

 

[divad]

Mine's working fine.

 

[scubadada]

I keep reading about people losing gopros and different dive ops talking about all the gopros they find in the course of a year. How exactly are these cameras getting lost? Is there some mechanical problem, lack of attention or ???

I've been thinking about diving with one and would really like to keep it for a while if I do.

Look who carries many of them, folks who can barely dive but must take video.

I have found 3 Go Pros in Boynton Beach, 2 returned to their lame owners, 1 became mine.

 

[dirtfarmer]

Any Tom Dick or Harriet has one. People wave them around like mad. How many full camera rigs do you hear of being lost? My camera rig has a lanyard of course.

 

[divad]

Any Tom Dick or Harriet has one. People wave them around like mad. How many full camera rigs do you hear of being lost? My camera rig has a lanyard of course.

you sound bitter.

 

[Bob DBF]

I have found 3 Go Pros in Boynton Beach, 2 returned to their lame owners, 1 became mine.

I'm assuming, from the numbers not returned, that most are found by persons less scruplless than you.



Bob

 

[gopbroek]

Task loading and inexperience. It is easy to poke fun at new divers but everyone starts as a new diver. Often the dorky diver from several years back becomes the calm situationally aware diver with a little experience.