Good Scuba DVD or VIDEO's

[BartBe]

Hi All,

Does anyone have any advice on good scuba-diving DVD's (or videos). I've had a look on the internet but except for 'wonders of the deep' wich gets crap reviews I don't seem to find much.
Does anyone now any good titles worth buying ?

 

[roakey]

Cave Diving the Yucatan Peninsula:

http://www.subaquaproductions.com/

Third segment of "Journey Into Amazing Caves":

http://www.amazingcaves.com/

Both have some excellent footage of cave diving, JIAC has some real "oh, ah" stuff that IMAX is known for. CDtYP gives you an excellent feel for what "recreational" cave diving is really like.

Roak

 

[CD_in_Chitown]

For great videos of PNW diving check out Joe Diver's site His latest DVD has some really good dive footage from BC and Puget Sound.

 

[aue-mike]

http://www.mikey.net/aue/theater.htm

Check out the ULTRAMARINE teaser. The entire video is pretty damn cool as well.

 

[Knavey]

Video was GREAT. Audio sound track leaves a LOT to be desired. Could they have picked more obnoxious music?

My 2 psi...

 

[Genesis]

is damn near impossible for most music you might want to use.

So, you are left with two options:

1. Something like this, an artist who isn't bound to some jackbooted record company that wants to charge you $100ks of money just to drop in the music PLUS a royalty per-copy (that is, if they'll approve your use AT ALL!)

OR

2. Compose your own music, usually using looped clips of various sounds (which you can get freely available to use) and "roll your own."

OR

3. In some cases you can find classical music that (1) has no valid copyright due to its age, AND (2) was performed and recorded from an orchestra which will release the copyright.

None of this matters for your own PERSONAL videos. But if you're distributing them and MOST PARTICULARLY if you are SELLING them, it does.

 

[aue-mike]

Knavey once bubbled...
Video was GREAT. Audio sound track leaves a LOT to be desired. Could they have picked more obnoxious music?

My 2 psi...

Oh well, you can't make everyone happy.

Personally, I am just tired of seeing dive videos with the same lame crap that just puts you to sleep. Enya and the rest of the elevator music gets old real quick...

 

[monkeyfish]

I like Blue Planet produced by the BBC. Exceptional footage of a bait ball. Also very educational.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...ref=sr_1_1/002-4840319-5764041?v=glance&s=dvd

 

[Knavey]

aue-mike once bubbled...


Oh well, you can't make everyone happy.

Personally, I am just tired of seeing dive videos with the same lame crap that just puts you to sleep. Enya and the rest of the elevator music gets old real quick...

Don't worry about it Mike...I just turned the audio down. Not my genre of music. I do agree that the selection out there is limited, and it was an interesting post on the music "rights" earlier.

I think what I most imagine when I look at wrecks like that...what was going on during the fight to save (or to sink) that vessel. What did it go through, what did its sailors go through?

A voiceover of the chaos of battle, radio clips from the war etc, are more what I imagine when I see something like that rather than rock and roll.

Again, loved the videos, the music was just not my style. Keep up the good footage for those of us who aren't to that level of diving yet!

 

[fritzer]

Not really a dive video, per se, but one of my favorites is "The Living Sea" on DVD....Sting does the entire soundtrack (if you're into him and it has some great underwater footage of different exotic locations like Palau, Hawaii, etc. Got it from Amazon.com.