Video: On patrol

Sean Lawler over at CGBlog.org will tell you that, "If you wanna grab people with video in today’s world, it has to play like a movie trailer for Transformers. Loud music, fast cuts, & pure action." I seem to get the most positive response to my mellow videos. Here are some excerpts from a surface patrol with Ken and Jon on 181173 last weekend. No SAR cases although we stood by as a good samaritan assisted a lightly grounded sail boat. The video is about 10 minutes long.

The video was shot with a bit of low cost, low resolution kit, the GoPro Hero Wide, mounted to my SAR vest. The mounting was somewhat makeshift but I've since rebuilt the mount system and added a level. The camera is waterproof to 100 feet, runs for about an hour, and the 170 degree field of view really captures the action. I still carry my dSLR this set-up can be used while the action is occurring rather than just doing after the fact documentation.