Things are flying along now and we have a new addition to the crew,
Andy Stuart. Andy will form part of the documentary crew along with
Matthew Boyd. Matthew is the director and land/boat cameraman and Andy will film underwater and with an Inspire one aerial drone. Here's a shot of me and Andy at
Scubadive West with both our cameras.
Here's Breffni from
Scubadive West and Ciaran with our new air compressor that will be coming to Greenland. This is an amazing piece of kit that is critical for our expedition. Without this we will be unable to dive. Scubadive West have been amazing....not only getting me to a skilled drysuit diver but they purchased this Bauer Jr compressor specially for the expedition. The guys are filling one of the cylinders here as a test. It takes about 20 minutes to fill a tank and we will have to do this for the 3 of us for every dive....fun times!!!
I received my all my carbon arms, clamps, video lights and..... my underwater quodpod (a tripod but with 4 legs). Declan Burke (Diving Dec to those that know him) has a company called
Anchor Dive Lights and he is an absolute pleasure to deal with. For the past 3 months we have been chatting and working out my requirements and he has supplied me with my entire rig for housing my lights to the camera. He has also put together an underwater quodpod which I expect will be very useful in Greenland. I had some great dives last weekend at Scubadive West. Some very talented underwater photographers were around to pass on their knowledge....Sarah Tallon, who has been an incredible support from the start and Maja Stankovski, who has an incredible range of macro and super macro images.
Here it is in all it's glory.
A selfie with Dec's quodpod!
This is an 8 sec exposure with a fair bit of surge around. Movement in the seaweed the camera is static as seen by the rocks!
Shorter exposure....1/4 sec at Rosheen Point. I am thinking ice in these type of shots will be fascinating!