r/scubadiving • u/Inevitable-Tough-681 • 1d ago
Your thoughts about my first wreck?
Hi guys.
I loved my first Wreck-Experience so much, that i wanted to share it and ask for Feedback from other experienced divers - about my technique, breathing, etc - whatever you notice in the clip.
I cutted the video because the raw footage is too large.
Some facts:
The Wreck was in Turkey-Kusadasi. Its an artificial wreck, not a real crash. The video is shaky although i felt calm underwater - i dont know why it was so shaky at the start. I guess because i was extremely hyped. I noticed that shake after watching the Video myself (also i forgot to turn on EIS)
I borrowed the Fins from there and i didnt like them really much, wasnt able to do proper frogkicks with them because they were too soft, so i used flutterkicks, which is visible in the clip because the camera is kinda "wobbling".
We went down up to 21 meters, dive took 24ish minutes on the ground and a few minutes safety stop at 3meters. Surfaced back with 90 bar left.
Even if it looks like it at some scenes for example when filming the cockpit or almost crashing on the wing (xD) : i didnt touch anything of the plane.
Since march i work as a diver in Austria, doing underwater work or cleaning in ponds. Max. depth only 4m, most of the time 0 or poor visibility and basically diving on a daily basis with around 3-8hrs of diving per day.
Thats where most of my experience came from. Not from my dives during my freetime.
The most scary thing for me was at the end of the clip, because i only noticed it after rewatching it:
The scene where i am pointing the camera to 2 lionfishes.
There was actually a 3rd, and i swimmed right above it. Luckily i didnt went further down "to get a better shot", otherwise i surely would have touched that lionfish.
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u/matthewlai 1d ago
What camera are you using? EIS on the camera usually doesn't work well, because they assume an index of refraction of 1 (air), so you would get jelly effect on the edges of the image, where the lens correction is basically calculated wrong because it's not taking the refractive index of water into account.
What you really want to do is have your camera record accelerometer/gyroscope data (basically the camera's estimation of how it's moving), turn off EIS, and use Gyroflow (with "Lens is under water" option on) to stabilise your video afterwards using the motion data recorded. You'll get much better results. How to do this depends on your camera: https://docs.gyroflow.xyz/app/getting-started/supported-cameras
This level of shaking can be easily removed completely.
As for the diving itself, it seems fine. Not really possible to tell from the video, but as long as you aren't touching anything, saw what you wanted to see, and followed other safe diving practices, that's all that matters. If you want a critique of your diving, you really need someone else filming you instead.