Diving in Resurrection bay, Alaska

[Yevgeny Nyden]

I had a chance of diving in Resurrection bay, Alaska this Fall with DiveAlaska. It is amazing how much diversity and sea life there is in these seemingly inhospitable and blood freezing waters. Feel free to critique a video work I've produced:


[video=youtube;MgecCIsr9eY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgecCIsr9eY[/video]

 

[Scuba-dan]

Nice Video. What was that at 2:49 and then you see it again at 3:16?

 

[Oldbear]

Way cool...What did you use to shoot your video?

 

[TSandM]

Nice quality video, and I loved the decorator crab sequences (I love those guys, anyway). But I had to laugh at 54 degrees being "blood freezing" water. That's warm SUMMER temperature around here!

 

[fisheater]

Very nice!!

Looks a lot like the north coast o California underwater. What species of rockfish was that?


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[farsidefan1]

Yikes, I hope you are far out from shore. I fish there on occasion and we chuck out these things we call Resurrection bay flies. Big trebble hooks built around a hunk of lead. We throw them out as far as possible and jerk them back in trying to snag salmon which come into the bay and die. I'll hate myself if I pull in a bit of rubber on the hook

 

[TSandM]

The first rockfish doesn't stick around too long, but looks like a copper; I think the second one is a quillback.

 

[Herb-alaska]

The video editing was very nicely done. I have tons of video but still need to select and learn a good editing software.

I am glad that you enjoyed diving in Alaskan waters. Not to brag but if you want to see some really nice dives come to SE Alaska. Everything you shot video and more can be found with just a 5 min dive to the water rather than a 2.5 hour drive to Seward. California blood must have some pretty low tolerances for cold. The the warmest water in SE that I can remember diving was mid 50's September we are in the mid 40's headed lower.

Put another layer of thermo protection on and come check out Sitka and SE Alaska,

What software did you edit your video with ?

 

[Yevgeny Nyden]

I apologize for missing comments on this thread - I guess, I wasn't taking ScubaBoard seriously at the time. I mean no offense.

TSandM, yep, 54 F is not really cold at all. You have to understand that I was just being introduced to cold waters and had no idea what was cold and what was not so cold. Now, I dive off the coast of Northern California where the water is almost always somewhere around 50 F.

I used Sony TD20 (in 2D mode), with 2 2K sola lights. All editing is done in Final Cut Pro (NOT the X version ).

Scuba-dan, that was a decorator crab as you might have figured our from other comments. I love these guys - true masters of disguise. The rockfish might be the olive rockfish or the copper rockfish, but I'm not sure.