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Drake
12-20-2012, 03:15 PM
Well, after only owning my GoPro Hero 3 Black edition for 5 days, It now resides as the bottom of the San Diego bay.

If in some freak miracle, it washes up somewhere and you find it. I would really like the memory card back.

Your reward is the GoPro itself. I'm not worried about the camera, it was insured and USAA has already issued me a payment to replace it.

However, I took some cool footage with it this morning and really want it back.

Anyway, I know it's the longest long shot ever but I thought I try :(

I swam down 20ft and froze my ass off looking for it. The heartbreaking part was watching the live view on the mobile app and just seeing the bottom of the bay.

Lesson learned, more marine goop next time :o

jorluivil
12-20-2012, 03:39 PM
Duuuuude

xpresso2am
12-20-2012, 03:41 PM
crap! that sucks..sorry man

StinkyMatt
12-20-2012, 03:45 PM
Dude!






What the hell are you doing in the winter months?

Most of us have put our kayaks into storage and sent our reels in for service.

Bad ass.






Sorry to hear about the accident.

ful-rac
12-20-2012, 03:47 PM
EH! you won't need it anyways...being that the end of the world is tomorrow! Some archeologist in 10000000 years'll dig that baby up...hopefully the memory card is still good;)

Biggameaddict
12-20-2012, 04:32 PM
Thats sucks. Hope you can find it. Atleast usaa paid for it though.

Drake
12-20-2012, 05:54 PM
EH! you won't need it anyways...being that the end of the world is tomorrow! Some archeologist in 10000000 years'll dig that baby up...hopefully the memory card is still good;)

oh man...if only I could see the faces of those archeologists when they play this "valuable footage".

tomahawk
12-20-2012, 06:11 PM
More Goop, but equally as important redundancy. Add a tether...

bus kid
12-20-2012, 06:45 PM
Bummer, did you sell your old one to jim for $50.00 yet?

Lipripper92592
12-20-2012, 07:47 PM
Even if you Goop it up, always use a leash, or at least the float attachement. Pretty cool that you could still view the camera at that depth with your phone.

Drake
12-20-2012, 09:05 PM
Bummer, did you sell your old one to jim for $50.00 yet? He offered me $12 and coupon good for a cuddle session whenever I want.

Even if you Goop it up, always use a leash, or at least the float attachement. Pretty cool that you could still view the camera at that depth with your phone.
The floaty back door didn't keep my other model afloat when it had the Battery Baypac attached, so I didn't bother with this one. I was planning on spending the weekend leashing it down. It got knocked off the post of it behind my head :(

Jim Sammons LJKF
12-21-2012, 06:26 AM
Discovered they don't float ten minutes into the first time we used one several years ago. GoPro jumped through hoops to get the cameras to us down in mexico for a shoot. I stuck it on the kayak, caught an amber jack, and the fish nailed it with its tail. Sent it to the bottom. Ooops.

Good luck getting it back...Crazier things have happened.

erinoo
12-21-2012, 06:41 AM
Bet there is more than fish porn on that memory card :sifone:

wiredantz
12-21-2012, 08:30 AM
I could only imagine what kind of things are recorded on the memory card....

Those large fins, with meat, super secret intel... This morning hot fish action.:drool5:

StinkyMatt
12-21-2012, 08:54 AM
I wonder if there is other "tuna" action on that card?





I could see Neil walking into a bar with the gopro on his head and hitting on the ladies:D

Biggameaddict
12-21-2012, 09:09 AM
Did you get a video of the lochness monster?

Jimmyz123
12-21-2012, 09:42 AM
I learned after losing my first VHF radio that anything I don't want to lose NEEDS to have a leach attached. Sorry for your loss.

Baja_Traveler
12-21-2012, 02:25 PM
Well Drake, I gave it my best shot this morning. Did my inaugural launch and shake down cruise of the new PA14 this morning. Launched at Shelter Island to a low tide and after adjusting pedals, seat and HDS, went straight across the bay and out towards ground zero. My hopes were that even though it sank, it would have just a little positive buoyancy and maybe get pushed up into shallow water or even the beach by wake action of boats going by. After working in zig zags shallow to deep I came up empty. I then headed out to the tip of Zuniga jetty, back across to the point and back to Shelter Island - 4 hours in total.

Drake
12-21-2012, 02:41 PM
Well Drake, I gave it my best shot this morning. Did my inaugural launch and shake down cruise of the new PA14 this morning. Launched at Shelter Island to a low tide and after adjusting pedals, seat and HDS, went straight across the bay and out towards ground zero. My hopes were that even though it sank, it would have just a little positive buoyancy and maybe get pushed up into shallow water or even the beach by wake action of boats going by. After working in zig zags shallow to deep I came up empty. I then headed out to the tip of Zuniga jetty, back across to the point and back to Shelter Island - 4 hours in total.

Wow, I really really appreciate the effort. I wasn't expensive a search and rescue mission, but that was extremely kind of you :you_rock:

I hope it didn't cause you too much time fishing :cool:
I'll be out in the bay tomorrow again. Maybe I'll get lucky. It sucks that everyone is out of stock on the camera, so I can't even replace it until after the holidays haha

wiredantz
12-21-2012, 03:53 PM
Dont' worry neil, i am working on the secret footage.:D

to be displayed to the public

KennyHill
12-21-2012, 04:21 PM
its probably still sitting on the bottom in the mud. find a scuba friend and go get it.

Baja_Traveler
12-21-2012, 04:37 PM
its probably still sitting on the bottom in the mud. find a scuba friend and go get it.

Problem is - it's illegal to scuba dive in the bay - particularly right next to a military installation.

Drake
12-21-2012, 06:02 PM
I've got some NAVY SWCC buddies with dive gear, too bad they're gone for two more days. They could definitely get away with diving there.

steveooo
12-21-2012, 09:56 PM
Doh! That hurts! The remote view is a cool feature until....