Please wait, this advice is coming from a person that sells cameras.
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Am I being unreasonable if I believe that if you cannot hover motionless (or reasonably so) while trying to take a photo underwater you have NO BUSINESS DIVING WITH A CAMERA?
I just returned from two weeks on the Truk Odyssey where I have to say I was absolutely appalled by the complete lack of buoyancy control, crappy finning technique, and overall poor dive awareness exhibited by several of my fellow passengers.
Seems as though the main thing these people had in common was they were all carrying cameras and committed to getting as many pictures of everything as possible in as short a period of time as possible.
In order to accomplish this mission these folks would...
- Stand on whatever deck, gun, propeller, rudder, etc was handy
- Lay directly on coral, artifacts, torpedos, tanks etc
- Fin constantly in a vertical position in engine rooms and cargo holds resulting in a complete silt-out
- Race around the wreck at top speed with fins, consoles, lights, etc dragging
- Dodge between other divers and their photographic subjects
On many dives folks often rendered the site un-divable within minutes of descent. On all dives they certainly reduced the enjoyment of divers who paid thousands of dollars to travel to Truk Lagoon to see these wrecks. Worse by far was that they frequently created general safety hazards for other divers, especially in engine rooms, inner passageways, etc. (These people had no business inside these wrecks... with or without a camera.)
Now, I'm often accused of being a bouyancy, trim, and finning ****, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to have at least rudimentary skills in these areas before diving on/in 65yr old WWII wrecks. Honest to god, it looked like a bunch of "Operation Hailstorm Re-enactors" attacking the Japanese fleet for a second time!
/rant