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Judge
12-06-2007, 05:45 AM
I think if you can say you had more divable days than days too rough, on a Coral Sea trip you can smile. We had that on the 07 Extreme trip.

This was my first year to take an underwater camera in my earlier video clips it was always my son doing the underwater videoing while I did the video editing. I had taken this camera out only twice before I left for the Coral Sea trip. There is no doubt that in the realms of underwater filming I was the novice. As I don't need my hands to clear my ears descending while holding my gun and filming was not a problem. However when it come to concentrating on the hunting, body and gun positioning while keeping the camera focused in the right direction, while holding my breath, I had some difficulty and at one point stopped filming until I shot a few fish.

The following videos are only what came through my camera and don't represent the whole trip. I have only seen my son's results and he has taken some awesome footage and where I put the camera away to shoot tuna and wahoo he managed to catch those shots too. However finally I managed to give him some payback and filmed some of the fish he fought during the trip.

I broke the trip in 3 sections. In the first part Ant (my son) and I speared some close reefs a couple of days before the trip. The second section cover Kenn and Frederick Reef while part three catches our retreat before foul weather back to the Swains.

Out in the Blue
Coral Sea
2007

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QgHqOKCHOQ

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQem2X7BmwY

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4twu8sGfG4

Judge

settingsteel
12-06-2007, 09:54 PM
wow great adventure, thx for sharing!!!

SpearMax
12-06-2007, 11:43 PM
Great stuff Judge!

Keep em coming.

SnpperWhisperer
12-07-2007, 04:59 AM
Some class fish there.

gwedge
12-07-2007, 09:53 AM
sick videos! thanks.

markZ
12-09-2007, 04:32 PM
Great videos .. thanks for posting .. enjoyed them all.

markZ
Port Canaveral, Florida

Prater
12-17-2007, 11:02 AM
The best vis I have ever had was in the Coral Sea at Holmes Reef. Just had to go through 5 hours of storms to get there, but it was all worth it.

Bent Tip
12-17-2007, 12:41 PM
Looks like a great trip - thanks for sharing the videos.

Great camerawork too - I little too good, I think I got seasick and puked in my office trashcan after watching the first part of the third video. Although it is blowing like crazy here, and the building I'm in sure feels and sounds like it is swaying in the wind, so that may have helped.

Seriously though - great videos and thanks for posting.

Judge
03-07-2008, 05:50 PM
Ha ha ha... Yes, I know what you mean. That footage on the back of the boat as we retreated from a 35 knot wind with 5 metre swells was a bit intense. We showed it on the big screen for our club meeting and we were all swaying. We were getting the spin off from an early tropical cyclone (hurricane) a thousand kms north.

I am glad you enjoyed the clips, they were fun to make... especially the spearfishing part. :D

Judge

Bent Tip
03-07-2008, 06:13 PM
Spearfishing does beat the holy hell out of getting seasick on a relentlessly rocking boat. Actually, getting in the water is about my favorite motion sickness remedy.

Been a while since you put those up - any chance you are looking at another trip (and more videos for the landlocked) anytime soon? Cheers.

Judge
04-24-2008, 10:41 PM
Hey, I'm back from another trip... and this time it was to a sunny corner of USA. Yup, Hawaii. Had a ball and there are a few pics and a short clip in the Hawaii section of this forum: http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?p=695156&posted=1#post695156

Judge

pirate_diver
05-04-2008, 09:52 AM
excellent videos of what looked like an AWESOME trip. Good choice of music too, that Out of the Blue song is GREAT! Is Jimmy Barnes an Aussie artist? If so can you maybe send me the song file via email or let me know where I can find it?

Judge
05-06-2008, 05:43 AM
Yes, Jimmy Barnes is a true blue Aussie act. He was the lead singer to Cold Chisel... also big over here some time ago. You will find some good tunes be chasing down those names... even on You Tube.

I know it is a complete change of subjects but here is Jimmy Barnes with another Aussie legend, John Farnham : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwYLChM1zaY

Judge

Judge