nova cave exploration 2-9-10

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I would guess sensor shift image stabilization, but I'm not super in the know as far as video goes.

[citracaver]

I would also guess that as big as Wes's camera is that it kind of stabilizes itself. Not as easy to shake around a big housing like that in the water. Wish I had that problem with my camera...

[LCF]

I enjoyed the program, and we had no audio or visual glitches here in the PNW.

I wish there had been less on the danger and risk, but I also realize that I'm a bit hypersensitive to the topic. I wonder if a non-diver watching the show (and that's who it was made for) would have been as struck by it?

However that is, as usual, Wes Skiles' photography blew me away. I'm always delighted to be able to see his photographs or video; it's the next best thing to being there Diving in the Bahamas was already on my radar, from the on-line videos of places like Dan's Cave, and this documentary just got me drooling even more.

[huvr]

All I wanted to know was did they recover the remains of the 70's era diver or just leave it as a grave site? I would hope the recoverey would have been made.

[FW]

All I wanted to know was did they recover the remains of the 70's era diver or just leave it as a grave site? I would hope the recoverey would have been made.

In another thread, Brian said the family wanted to leave him there.

[JahJahwarrior]

I'm only partway through it, but twice already I've noticed arrows and cookies just kinda lying around on the ground...

[Brian Kakuk]

I'm only partway through it, but twice already I've noticed arrows and cookies just kinda lying around on the ground...

Cookies are used as fossil site markers and those sites have been surveyed into the map in Compass 32, so we can see spatial orientation of all the material sites...over 100 in sawmill alone...54 crocodile, 15 tortoise, tons of other stuff, so yes, lots of cookies laying around.

[metaldector]

I just saw that my local PBS station is re-running this again tonight at 11 PM. I'm setting the VCR to catch this tonight.

[JahJahwarrior]

Cookies are used as fossil site markers and those sites have been surveyed into the map in Compass 32, so we can see spatial orientation of all the material sites...over 100 in sawmill alone...54 crocodile, 15 tortoise, tons of other stuff, so yes, lots of cookies laying around.

Interesting. That makes some sort of sense. Thanks for explaining!

[Jack Hammer]

I think it's a helluva lot better than the cave diving sequences in the Imax flick, "Journey into amazing caves," where theres a silt cloud following the divers around (I liked that one too).