Taking A Dunk With The Helmet Cam
This video came from Penny courtesy of the Northwest Whitewater Association email list. I think it’s a piece of abstract art. The director has this to say:
June 20, Castle, Lochsa River: Penny demonstrates what happens when you don’t hold on with both hands. Safety note; I was underwater for about two seconds, the camera was for quite a bit longer.
Penny added this comment:
“Hey Jon, it was NOT a helmet cam. That could be misleading. I was video-ing with a point and shoot waterproof cam in one hand, and holding on with the other. AS you see in the video, that doesn’t work too well. I dropped the cam as soon as I hit the water; it was leashed and running underwater while I grabbed a tag line, kept my head above water. So, it was not the swim you might think it was. I was a passenger on the back of a tandem cataraft, that might explain why I was running a hand held camera…
Penny S.”
Oh. OK. Shoot “Helmet Cam” sounded cooler.
I was wondering how you kept the camera “rolling” the whole time.