So after the quick swim through test of my new GoPro at clovelly I decided to take it to Gordon’s bay for another test run, this time with my wet suite and a bit of depth about 13m (I think it was).

Pretty much everything went well accept my buoyancy. I didn’t strap on my weights and  obviously became really buoyant. I thought I could get away with it but it seems that in the video above much of my head is missing in a few of the shots. This is because I kept floating up and for no weights, I had the camera angled wrong. In the Clovelly video I could get into the full shot because I wasn’t wearing a wetsuit and constantly floating up.

There were main 2 take away’s from these tests. The first is I think I need to angle my camera a bit over 90 degrees relative to the pole maybe 100 – 110 degrees so that I get less of the pole in the shot and more of myself.

Secondly the battery died just when I was following some scuba divers around the dive site. It was after about the 1-2 hour mark of constantly being on, so from this I can estimate the life span of the battery depending on how I use it which is also great. As a result of this I might also get a spare battery incase it runs out at the best of times.

One of the things that really annoys me is that there is no LCD screen to preview the shots. I know you can buy it but thats the thing (you have to buy it). I’m used to digital camera’s where you automatically take a shot and preview it on the back, even my cheapo intova had that feature. But I understand, I guess that is how GoPro make money so good on them for creating such a good business model.

I feel the app should allow you to preview the images and videos and it certainly isn’t a technical issue so I wonder if GoPro is holding of on this because they know it will impact their LCD attachment sales.

Anyhow, other than that it was a great dive and I explored parts of Gordon bay which I didn’t do before. I went to the usual wall and all the cracks and crevices  on both the east and west walls. I also heard the wobbegong shark was there again but after spending some time looking for it I couldn’t see the shark anywhere. Instead I finished the dive by followed some scuba divers around the dive site.

Enjoy the video above.