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Equipment For Great White Shark Cage Dive????

Started Apr 17, 2016 | Discussions thread
nafik Contributing Member • Posts: 922
Re: Equipment For Great White Shark Cage Dive????

CG_Photography wrote:

Hello all, I need some advice...

We are doing a great white cage dive in South Africa soon. I am an experienced dry land photographer (see web site below), and a certified diver, but have not yet tried underwater photography. I am trying to decide between keeping the shark dive simple with the GoPros, or renting some underwater housing for my higher end Canon gear. What do you all recommend? Also, since the cage is near the surface, do I really need to rent and learn how to use underwater strobes, or will the surface light be adequate? We have rented the boat for the day so I will have adequate time in the cage, and will not have other people in at the same time.

Advice appreciated, thanks

Keep it as simple as possible. Forget DSLR or anything fancy. You will be quite overwhelmed (i promise) and dealing with camera (any) is the last thing you want to do.

Diving for over 25 years and shooting underwater for over 10 years. Handling camera underwater for me is the same as on land. Nevertheless while on an hour long 90 foot deep shark dive in Fiji (no cage) I was pretty nervous and excited screwing up a lot of shots (forgot this and forgot that).

GoPro or something like a cheap UW camera (Fuji XP ___) will do just fine. Keep in mind what these will be just snapshots for your memories and friends to see. Enjoy the experience. I do not think that the world is waiting for another image of a great white.

Just a bull shark...10 feet away

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M.
Nice camera...now show me your pictures.

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