Any other beach divers here?

[ChrisA]

Any other beach divers here?

I want to shoot video off the local beaches. What's the best way to get a 12 pound housed video camera out through the surf. Do you just walk out, camera in one hand, fins in the other? I'm thinking about putting the camera in a float, the kind with an inner tube inside that instructors use. Eventually I want to shoot at night. I do about one a night beach dive a week and would like to show people what it looks like.

 

[ChrisM]

Hey Chris - Chris M here....I do this with my housed rig, but if there is any surf to speak of, I usually leave it in the car or at home. Carrying a heavy rig through surf adds a lot more task loading than simply the loss of use of a hand while entering. More importantly, taking a camera through a roiling surf zone is a sure fire way to get a leak, LOTS of sand gets in the o rings (should have heard the grinding last itme I removed my port after a Vets dive with surf).

If surf is low, fins in one hand, camera in the other, and off you go. Once you get in the water I imagine it's buoyant enough that it won't weight the 12# it does on land

If there were enough surf to keep me from bringing the camera, I wouldn't think the float would work, having to negotiate the surf with it.

Chris