Diving Skills for Underwater Video

Diving skills and buoyancy for shooting underwater video

Buoyancy Control

As little weight as possible to fins don't kick up the bottom as you leave

Leave a subject by increasing buoyancy and rising vertically

Hold rock or dead coral with one hand

Lean camera on sand or rock or dead coral

Show pics of live coral and dead coral

It's actually better to hold something than to try and stay steady, which risks drifting into living coral

Vital for underwater video

Good diving skills before underwater video

Otherwise frustrated with footage

Will piss off other divers, kicking

Hold breath as long as possible

Exhale very slowly through nose

Nick Hope