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Video of descending down a mooring line to the deck of the SS Thistlegorm. I didn't have a proper waterproof camera, so I got one of these plastic pouch things for my Canon point-and-shoot in a sketchy Egyptian market: http://amzn.com/B0010Y0ZNW. I was sure that water would leak inside, but that wasn't the problem - water pressure was. These pouches really only work for snorkeling, and at about 50 feet of depth the camera starts to get crushed by the pressure and you can see a fisheye effect which is actually caused by the lens getting physically distorted. At about 90 feet of depth the camera goes berserk because all the buttons are being simultaneously pressed by the pressure, and the video cuts out. So unfortunately no video clips of inside the ship :(. In the first 1:10 of the video I am putting on fins and jumping into the water while the camera is flailing around on a lanyard so it's very disorienting if you want to skip that part.
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