Water Camera Operator
Santa Monica Bay, CA -Some competitors and support personnel came from as far away as Hawaii and Australia to compete in this and other upcoming Southern CA paddling events. I was part of a 5-camera crew put together by an avid paddler who is also part of the local film and video community. We had two shooters riding on the back of SeaDoos with Canon HV20 cameras in Epic housings, an HV30 on a handheld gyro rig on the deck of the camera boat, a Sony CX12 attached to a remote-control helicopter (!) and myself in the water with my Seatool HC3 rig. The camera boat would drop me in the water at points along the race course, we'd shoot the competitors paddling by, and then leapfrog past them all and do it again. And again. Water temp: about 57 degrees F. Video package coming sometime in the Spring or Summer.
