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Help me get my go pro back

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Iliveinutah
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i was paddling toxaway falls recently when my go pro came off my boat and now sets in the bottom of a 20 ft pool of water at the end of the water fall its cold ass water and the wet suit i have just is not cutting it any ideas how i can get down to it with out frezzing my balls off ?
Jan 31 2012 1:40PM
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lgski
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thankyou!
Feb 2 2012 12:17PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Yeah it's slightly less cool than actually giving a shit about some ms paint icon you created in two minutes.
Feb 2 2012 12:23PM
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Ricky.
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Once it becomes a ns icon there's a lot more to it that that
Feb 2 2012 1:09PM
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tBatt
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But without live feed, how can you tell where you're looking?
Feb 2 2012 1:31PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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be methodical??

start at one end and extend the pole, draw it back and take four or five steps along the pool, extend pole again and draw it back, take another couple steps, repeat until you have covered most of the pool. Go home and watch footy, figure by movement of the cam about where you were when you spot it.

it ain't perfect but it'd give you a better idea than diving in blind.

A live feed would be tits though, with like a cable operated grabber on the end with the cam.

C'mon man, get your mythbuster's on and fab something up.
Feb 2 2012 1:36PM
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tBatt
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but 20 feeet long. Time for some McGuiver shit!
Feb 2 2012 1:40PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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That's what I'm talking about. I mean you could totally duct tape that thing to a pole and tie a string around the trigger. I think the live feed go pro would be the difficult part.
Feb 2 2012 1:48PM
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CassiusClay
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Question, have you ever been in a river?
Feb 2 2012 3:49PM
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LGSB
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Hey lgski made this on my computer fuck you take it off you don't even know what lake Geneva is
Feb 2 2012 4:49PM
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freestyler540
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use a pool leaf catcher that is 30 feet long (extensible)
Feb 2 2012 5:53PM
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joshua
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Water moves dude......
Feb 2 2012 5:55PM
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TallTeeNation
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Question, can a waterfall move water? which can move items that may have fallen in the moving water?

Feb 2 2012 6:12PM
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navierSTOKED
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Live feed is easy; live feed + waterproof is difficult.  I can see OP trying this and then pretty soon we will have a thread in NSG: "Help me get my go pros back"
Feb 2 2012 6:47PM
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tBatt
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The Contour+ has wireless live feed. So get a waterproof case and drop $500 on a Contour plus, so you can get your GoPro back! Seems logical.
Feb 3 2012 1:06AM
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VD.
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I scuba-dive and I wouldn't reccomend diving a plunge pool, to make one that's 20ft thats a fairly large waterfall, visibility would be poor, as would the currents, my guess would be you would have to do this as a solo-dive. The only guys that would dive this would be qualified tech divers, and they're hard to come by, I only know one.
Feb 3 2012 1:35AM
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Lucas
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/thread
Feb 3 2012 1:43AM
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Phil-X-
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man up and throw people in there
Feb 3 2012 2:09AM
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Iliveinutah
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Anyone think if i put on 2 wet suits it would make a diffrence ??
Feb 3 2012 9:15AM
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Spinoza
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Haha that was funny
Feb 3 2012 9:43AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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haha i'm a search and rescue diver and often dive the mississippi river (literally zero visibility) searching for bodies, weapons, etc., so I'm pretty familiar with what's involved in this type of situation. i wasn't recommending that some kid that just got his open water certification go diving for this go pro as that's be pretty dangerous.

you are correct in that you'd do this as a solo dive. However, you'd want to be tethered to a safety line with a line handler/backup diver on shore. it'd likely be black water and you'd have to "dive" completely by feel. and by "dive" I mean you load your weights about 3x what you typically use and basically lay on the bottom and crab crawl your search pattern feeling everything on the bottom by hand as these are your "eyes" in black water.


Feb 3 2012 10:20AM
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Phil-X-
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eh...

(first, ill admit i dont have any s and r experience, so youre advice is better then mine)

As someone whos been a lifeguard for 3+ years, a competitive swimmer for 11+ years and a waterpolo player for 6+ years.

This is what i would do.

Get 2 or maybe 3 of your friends who have certified guarding experience. Take a body harness of some sort (if youre lazy, tie yourslef up with a rope i guess) i think you said you have a wet suit so wear that, rather then using weights and risking getting stuck at the bottom, use a 20ft pole of some sort that will sink, use this to guide yourself to the bottom if you arent good at swimming down. bring a waterproof powerful flashlight and look until you find it.

That being said, im a very experienced swimmer who can hold his breath for around 2 minutes, bring a 500lb float rescue tube down a 13ft well and tread water like a motherfucker. (and whitewater experience)

Im sure some ones gonna rip on me and say that doesnt compare to being stuck under currents or something, but i dont really give a shit, if it was my gopro down there, id be swimming after it.










Also its prolly 5 miles down stream by now.
Feb 3 2012 4:54PM
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lgski
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Photoshop. Punk
Feb 3 2012 6:02PM
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