Learn to dive and get some experience first. Then, and only then, take a camera underwater.
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Learn to dive and get some experience first. Then, and only then, take a camera underwater.
use your brain*, pay attention, be honest with yourself, and make your own decisions. Which, I think is true for every single aspect of scuba. If you want to take a camera with you, take it.
Flooding only happens when a person opens the case underwater it is operator error. You can also open the sea life underwater and flood it. Silly reason.
Ummm, you guys realize this thread is 3 months old, right?
But, since it has bubbled to the top, I will throw my contrary (*gasp* *shock*) opinion into the mix.
To that point, would you care to share the video footage you shot on logged dives 3 and 4?
Think I had this earlier in the thread. The SeaLife Micro HD is "floodproof" as it is permanently sealed.
I didn't respond after seeing this thread pop up again the other day for the same reason, but since it is here again......
Having an older model Sea Life that does video and photos, I really enjoy the photos for the purpose of later identifying those things that I don't have a clue about and printing and posting the photos (framed on the wall, bulletin boards, FB, etc..) I do like the videos I take also but do so much more with the photos. What do people do with the humongous amount of video they must collect if diving all the time with a GoPro?
The problem is, a newly certified diver typically has no frame of reference from which they can "be honest" with themselves and no context from which they can meaningfully "make their own decisions" about things that involve task loading.
What would have been much more helpful was to explain that, while I might be able to hold my depth easily when I'm doing nothing but hovering and focusing on holding my depth, the real trick with buoyancy control is how well I could hold my depth steady while also performing a task. Even something as simple as holding depth and unclipping a camera, turning it on, adjusting the mode, taking a picture, turning it back off, and clipping it back to my BC. As it turned out, I was able to do all that and hold a steady depth. But, the blanket statement about it did not help me at all to understand the real challenges involved in doing what I was proposing to do.
it is possible to flood the battery compartment on the sea-life - the charger for it looks like the rubber piece that covers that area and if your in a rush in the morning you may not notice
sea life replaced mine under warranty - they said i doved without the rubber piece in there as the battery compartment was full of salt - the important thing is they replaced it free of charge
even though it was user error