How the videos were made Whilst the videos are both between 40 and 44 minutes long – the actual projects of course take much longer. The shooting of the sea video was a really challenging project, as unlike a pool you have little control over the environment. It was filmed on Grand Bahama island – mostly around a location called Paradise Cove – towards the west end of the island. Just off from the cove was a reef called Deadman’s Reef. It is one of the few places on the island where the reef comes close to shore and which made access easier. Unfortunately weather conditions at the time, were varied – and we lost a considerable amount of days due to poor weather – and even when we did shoot, it was often more overcast than we had hoped for – which didn’t exactly give us good natural lighting. Less than ideal wind conditions and currents also impacted on our shoot schedule – but in the end we did get enough material – although a planned scuba dive involving shark feeding was cancelled because of too much ocean swell – it was too dangerous to recover the divers onto the boat – so the scuba section only shows me with the dolphins. I was very glad I had trained well in the pool at home beforehand, as I still did an enormous amount of dives – the very fact that sea conditions were not perfect meant I had to do a lot of re-takes. All those underwater lengths and double lengths in the pool really paid off – especially on the 10 metre dives and deep swims. I have to say that I would advise anyone doing the sea based activity that they do get into excellent shape before hand – it is a much more challenging environment. Although very beautiful underwater and enjoyable I was pretty exhausted at the end of each session – particular those without mask where after a while the salt did sting my eyes. We shot about 5 hours of video, which gave us enough material to produce a 40 minute video. The pool based filming took place over two weekends – fortunately in a much more controllable environment – and involved some 8 hours in the pool. For both videos the video camera used was a Sony TVR900 – a 3 CCD DV format camera. The underwater housing was from Ikelite – specially adapted for the particular camera used.