I shot some underwater video for a student project which will be released shortly.

Here are some pointers for filming underwater video more successfully for the unexperienced.

1. Weight your camera so it is neutrally buoyant when filming underwater.  If the case makes the camera float, holding a steady shot underwater is much more difficult.

2. Wear swim fins for mobility.  I didn’t do this the first time around.  I’ll definitely do it next time.

3. Larger goggles are better than smaller goggles for visibility.

4. A weight belt would also be helpful, to keep your own body neutrally buoyant.  Just make sure that you can swim well enough.

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On August 15, 1934, Barton and Beebe made a world record descent to a depth of 3,028 feet (923 m), the record remaining unbroken for 15 years.[2]
What Beebe saw on that trip—and reported with such vividness—was a glowing world of creatures so astonishing that for decades many doubted his veracity. The clear sea stretched endlessly, and was so full of luminescence that it sparkled like the night sky. Cavalcades of black shrimps, transparent eels, and bizarre fish approached the descending sphere, and when Beebe used his spotlight to see them, great shadows and shifting patches of light hovered just out of view, leading him to postulate the existence of giants in the Bermudan depths. And below the bathysphere? There, said Beebe, lay a world that “looked like the black pit-mouth of hell itself.”

Hfour collaborated with Mariana’s key organizer to create an ambient ‘back wall’ video installation showcasing found footage of deep sea life and exploration.

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