underwater Photo Course :: (3) Diving with a Camera :: Strategy :: Strategy on the dive

Never put your camera down underwater, even in perfect conditions you can become disorientated and lose it - lets face it, one part of the seabed looks much the same as another. If you must leave it, one of those little floating, signaling strobe lights could be tied on to make gear left on the bottom more conspicuous but remember, batteries fade out!

Be reminded that other divers consider anything they find on the bottom as fair game. One eminent photographer I know had a camera stolen underwater. He had put it down next to him whilst working with another camera and when he came to pick it up it was no longer there! He saw a pair of fins disappearing into the distance,

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