archer1960
Contributor
I don't own a GoPro but I try to stay away from all divers who have any kind of photographic gear in their hand, whether they are equipped with a GoPro stick or a fancy DSLR rig. I have seen really good and really bad divers using both ends of the photographic equipment spectrum. The bad divers I stay away from because I don't want to get smacked with the pole, and I stay away from the good divers so I don't interfer with their photography. One nice advantage of the GoPro pole is that it tends to keep the bad divers a little farther away from the reef. During a recent dive in Belize, a couple with hand held underwater cameras were climbing over, laying on, banging into, and knocking over coral and sponges trying to get their close up shots. Watching them I was thinking it was too bad they did not have a GoPro on a 6 foot stick. At least the coral would not have been so badly trampled.
Yup. That's the only advantage to them, AFAICS.