Nate - I appreciate your buddies input, but that will not work as the swimmer cannot touch bottom at any point during these swimming shots (I'm 6'2" a...

The swimmer has enough trouble fighting the surf and current with the survey rod. Adding 50 lbs of lead to him will be equivalent to giving him cement...

Maybe I should consider a longer rod, though the longer it gets the more difficult it is for the swimmer to use. We use about a 15ft rod at the moment...

Ok I'll try to get some pics/video the next time I'm out. We usually roll as a two man crew so its hard to get the action shots.

Haha thats great! That would be so much fun to use, but it would get wrecked in the surf.

A robotic unit with tracking would be great but out of our price range. I will check out the bear 360 prisms but wonder if it will be any better than ...

Between the winds, waves, and currents the swimmer will be fighting to keep in the inner tube steady as well as the rod.

Wow thanks for all the input everybody! I'll try to summarize my responses to everyone in this thread.The Nikons that we tried were tuned to the corre...