I was trying to do something that hadn’t
been done before that’s it oh I was
trying to get a picture of a great white
shark in Cape Cod and that hadn’t been
done messed up I was using these seal
decoy swarming doing aerial photography
using spotter pilots this was just
starting to stack up in a way that had
me believing it might not ever happen
since he said the what is very cloudy
number one there’s only one animal so
the ones better than none once you check
one two two recording that red light
gotta shut it off just we isn’t this a
little fun what we have happening in
Cape Cod is quite unique we have a newly
forming hub of great white shark
activity the Sharks are coming in to
feed on grey seals seal populations
there were wiped out in the 1600s so
because of that you don’t really see
great white sharks they are very often
an occasional one maybe but the grey
seal population has become robust in the
last several years the Sharks here are
truly wild they are not the least bit
interested or habituated to human beings
you can’t get them near the boat they
just won’t be attracted by the boat they
seem to be only interested in these
seals so to get a photograph in these
very green murky Cape Cod waters means
you have to get close and none of the
traditional means would work so my hope
was by putting a camera inside a decoy
we could get a picture now we’re putting
on my seal decoy that has still camera
in it without worry about it after we
the video eyes so that I can see what’s
happening on it my hope was that a great
white shark would swim up and smile for
the camera the way generally not eat the
decoy
and then I needed to be able to see in
real time when the shark was approaching
the decoy otherwise I’d be just sort of
shooting blind we’re using spotter
pilots to find the Sharks but that’s not
good enough got a lot of expensive
equipment on a boat
it’s the octocopter the advantage of
this particular piece of equipment is it
can lift a heavy camera with rock-solid
every idea is to get this thing out
there hover it over the top of the decoy
see the circling behavior and then that
moment of impact and photographically
it’ll be great but we can also learn
about the behavior that these sharks are
demonstrating you Sam
the white sharks here in Cape Cod or
doing things differently than they do
elsewhere in the world we’ve seen these
whites in very very shallow water you
know three to five feet of water look at
these right now being able to observe
that from a low altitude bird’s-eye view
is gonna be really really valuable
that’s it yes after many attempts at
decoys and all these different things
that I was trying it gotten I’ll go
behind it nothing is working and then
finally when this right sized decoy whoa
dorsals out of water out the right size
housing inside and the wireless trigger
and the video has kind of stuff came
together and I saw that triggers comes
on right up to the tail of this thing
and I could see it oh you the player
yeah yes might bite it come back there
you go yeah yeah
I mean you just steer it that decoy for
so long and then all of a sudden there’s
teeth and jaws just emerging from the
water I mean I hope I got it I hope I
got it but I mean I was shooting fast it
was right in the frame I could see it I
could see I actually saw the red of the
guns you know with with teeth
unbelievable I mean the beach was right
there the background desolate couldn’t
be more than 12 feet of water let’s go
get the decoy yeah yeah yeah we got it
you got to collect your data I just got
the picture that’s all I care about
oh man very cool very very cool you’re
like at least six I think
been done before that’s it oh I was
trying to get a picture of a great white
shark in Cape Cod and that hadn’t been
done messed up I was using these seal
decoy swarming doing aerial photography
using spotter pilots this was just
starting to stack up in a way that had
me believing it might not ever happen
since he said the what is very cloudy
number one there’s only one animal so
the ones better than none once you check
one two two recording that red light
gotta shut it off just we isn’t this a
little fun what we have happening in
Cape Cod is quite unique we have a newly
forming hub of great white shark
activity the Sharks are coming in to
feed on grey seals seal populations
there were wiped out in the 1600s so
because of that you don’t really see
great white sharks they are very often
an occasional one maybe but the grey
seal population has become robust in the
last several years the Sharks here are
truly wild they are not the least bit
interested or habituated to human beings
you can’t get them near the boat they
just won’t be attracted by the boat they
seem to be only interested in these
seals so to get a photograph in these
very green murky Cape Cod waters means
you have to get close and none of the
traditional means would work so my hope
was by putting a camera inside a decoy
we could get a picture now we’re putting
on my seal decoy that has still camera
in it without worry about it after we
the video eyes so that I can see what’s
happening on it my hope was that a great
white shark would swim up and smile for
the camera the way generally not eat the
decoy
and then I needed to be able to see in
real time when the shark was approaching
the decoy otherwise I’d be just sort of
shooting blind we’re using spotter
pilots to find the Sharks but that’s not
good enough got a lot of expensive
equipment on a boat
it’s the octocopter the advantage of
this particular piece of equipment is it
can lift a heavy camera with rock-solid
every idea is to get this thing out
there hover it over the top of the decoy
see the circling behavior and then that
moment of impact and photographically
it’ll be great but we can also learn
about the behavior that these sharks are
demonstrating you Sam
the white sharks here in Cape Cod or
doing things differently than they do
elsewhere in the world we’ve seen these
whites in very very shallow water you
know three to five feet of water look at
these right now being able to observe
that from a low altitude bird’s-eye view
is gonna be really really valuable
that’s it yes after many attempts at
decoys and all these different things
that I was trying it gotten I’ll go
behind it nothing is working and then
finally when this right sized decoy whoa
dorsals out of water out the right size
housing inside and the wireless trigger
and the video has kind of stuff came
together and I saw that triggers comes
on right up to the tail of this thing
and I could see it oh you the player
yeah yes might bite it come back there
you go yeah yeah
I mean you just steer it that decoy for
so long and then all of a sudden there’s
teeth and jaws just emerging from the
water I mean I hope I got it I hope I
got it but I mean I was shooting fast it
was right in the frame I could see it I
could see I actually saw the red of the
guns you know with with teeth
unbelievable I mean the beach was right
there the background desolate couldn’t
be more than 12 feet of water let’s go
get the decoy yeah yeah yeah we got it
you got to collect your data I just got
the picture that’s all I care about
oh man very cool very very cool you’re
like at least six I think
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