| New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune
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 Paradise Taveuni, Taveuni Island, Fiji The Endless Acquisitions of Scuba Businesses Sharks Continue to be the Movie Villains Retire in Margaritaville? Hugyfot Case Makes GoPro Serious Belize, Utila, Palau, Komodo, Bonaire Son of Australian Underwater Legend Sues Don’t be a Diving Heart Attack Victim Shooting RAW on your iPhone Tropical Ice Surely Not Another Scuba Kickstarter? Fancy Buying a Dive Resort Operation in the Sun? That Kosrae Dive Resort Lottery Winner Why Don’t Some Divers Drop Weights in an Emergency? More on those Disappearing Warships Great White v Orcas? Orcas Win Diving in Sri Lanka is Not All Bad Fire Aboard a Red Sea Liveaboard New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune How Safe to Fly After Diving? At Last, Some Empirical Evidence Flotsam & Jetsam www.undercurrent.org Editorial Office: Ben Davison Publisher and Editor Undercurrent 3020 Bridgeway, Suite 102 Sausalito, CA 94965 Contact Ben from the June, 2017 issue of Undercurrent
		 
         

 You might be familiar with those 360° view videos frequently used by real estate agents to give you virtual tours of properties. The VSN Mobil V360 HD Camera Kit sells for $449, but is only water-resistant to 3 feet deep. Some enterprising engineers have found a way to clamp together a cluster of POV cameras like the GoPro for a similar effect. The Boxfish 360 is a professional-quality 360° underwater camera with large digital sensors. Its "eyes" are three large cameras that the company claims gives the sensor an area almost five times that of those six-action-camera rigs you might have seen. This results in sharper images shooting up to 5K ultra high-definition with better color rendition. It has a 90-minute battery that takes only minutes change along with the camera's memory cards. The Boxfish 360 can also record data from the dive, such as the depth it recorded at. It's designed to work with the Boxfish ROV. For around $15,000, they're yours. www.boxfishresearch.com |