Peacock Springs: GoPro Video

[IowaCaveDiver]

The wife and I did a couple dives at peacock (P1) a couple weeks back and I put together a short video. Nothing special.. just some choice clips edited together with some freebie youtube music. We don't have video lights, just our UWLD LED's... I may try a homemade diffuser for our next dive... enjoy!

conditions were decent... first 1000' up the peanut line were very dusty and had 30' viz... looks like a lot of training had been going on (it was a sunday).. but past that it cleared up nicely to a solid 60-70' viz. Had a great dive up to the restriction and then a second shorter dive up the Pot Hole line. We'll be back on sunday...

http://youtu.be/MlEtbnfl5Qo

Matt

[gschaut]

Very nice video!

If you want an idea for lighting- I put a couple LED backup lights on my helmet, each side of the Gopro mount.

With the internal focus lenses removed, the bare emitters put out a 60 degree beam that was relatively flat. Very short range, but great to light up the foreground close to the camera. Gives the cave a better sense of size and scale.

Look forward to seeing more videos from you. These GoPro's are excellent!

[TONY CHANEY]

Very nice video. So I guess that the camera was mask or helmet mounted?

[IowaCaveDiver]

Camera was mask mounted… I use this set up for Spearfishing videos and find it works pretty well… Unfortunately when shooting images of another diver that is swimming slightly above you you end up with a lot of bubbles in front of the Lens

[Captain Bil]

Nice video, thanks for posting it. I've got to try and get to Peacock one of these days, it's been too long.

Sent from behind a pint of Guinness.