Thanks for the kind words. Now to answer a few questions:
The video was shot with a Sony HC7 pro-sumer grade camera, in a Gates housing. Good optics and lighting are important, so my housing has a Fathom wide angle port, or I use a good closup diopter as well behind a flat port. Also for this little single chip cameara lots of light is the key. I use a mix of up to four lights, either Sunray 1000s and also Big Blue 30x's, all are LED lights. I white balance most every shot while underwater to a white slate, and also use a custom built tripod often. Its all a pain but worth the final results.
Water temp was around 45 degree give or take. Surface weather was on an off rain mid 50s. Typical for september. Vis was around 50 feet give or take when we were there. I've heard it gets better and around 100' vis in early spring, March, April, etc, but the surface weather is much colder. I've been there in August when vis was poor, due to algae blooms. I wont go back there in the summer because of the risk of poorer vis.
There was a swell running and some areas such as Croaker rock we could not dive, so we found other protected spots in Browing pass, out of the swell. The area has heavy tide driven currents, and a good local guide will take you to dive sites mostly based on when and where the water is near slack. Expect lots of wall dives, deep walls if you dare to go that far, in a slight current. Later afternoon early evening dives are also common which turn into a night dive too.
We got lucky with the dolphins. They were feeding on a bait ball of herring.
