Bought Myself a GoPro for Christmas

[Lenny]

After reading a couple of posts about the GoPro camera I decided to get one for myself. Merry Christmas to me, Merry Christmas to me... When I get some time at home I'll take a video from the DeLorean. I want to hook up a external microphone and leave the video running while it's parked. I want to see and hear the reaction.

Read the whole post before viewing the video. The good part is in the last paragraph.

I took my family on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas for their Christmas present. I never got a chance to play with the camera or even read the instructions before we left.

I shot video while snorkeling, bicycling, and riding the Flume on the ship. I was really impressed with the quality. This is the same camera that professionals use in a lot TV shows. If you are watching something like Mythbusters you can catch the camera in some of the shots. I played it on my 46 inch HD TV and it's as good as a TV show.

I uploaded one of the videos, so you can see the quality. One of the fish there is called a Blue Head Wrasse (Look I got to use my college degree). They are a “Cleaner Fish” when other fish swim up to them they will bite off parasites, etc. Everything is smooth till 1:11. That’s when the Wrasse thought my nipple was a parasite. You will see the video jump around and then you can see the culprit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vNjirn9wU

[nofear365]

I'm picking up one up soon myself. Wife got me a DJI Phantom Quadcopoter and I'd like to use a GoPro Hero 3+ to do some aerial videography.

[jackb]

Lol, that was funny.
What were you swimming over? The ocean scares the hell out of me. (Heck, even pools too deep for me to put my feet on the bottom creep me out). And things under water that belong above water, like boats, super creep me out.

[Lenny]

Lol, that was funny.
What were you swimming over? The ocean scares the hell out of me. (Heck, even pools too deep for me to put my feet on the bottom creep me out). And things under water that belong above water, like boats, super creep me out.

Well you live in the right state to not like the ocean. My degree is in Marine Biology and I taught Snorkeling, Scuba and Marine Biology at SeaCamp on Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys. I was on the reef twice a day and did night dives once or twice a week. However, I needed money to pay off college loans. A couple of years after graduation, I became a Cop. Didn't make a lot of money but was able to live comfortably and pay off everything.

I was told, which means I don't know if it's true, that they were the "sunken ships" from the "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" ride that was in Disney World.