Lighting Large Wrecks

How would you go about lighting a large deep Wreck?

This boat is the Duane. It is 330' long and sitting in about 130ft of water and the deck around 100ft. There are a lot of wrecks like this around Miami and I am wondering how to best light them.

I am pretty happy with how(the lighting) came out on this shot but was wondering if I could do better.

You can get better results lighting large wrecks if you use a series of high power HMI light...

Oh, did I mention the price tag on these?

I was shooting an assignment for some training material here the other day and we used four 1kW surface supplied halogens. Pretty much enough light for anything in the entire pool, there.

The guys owning these lights have been using them for some wreck video work in the baltic as well. Nice, but a bit of a hassle with all the gennies and cables.

Seriuosly, though, why not shoot natural light? Leigh Bishop has done some stunning images using a tripod in depths down to 100+ meters.

timo

I'd start with a high ISO. Maybe two extra divers holding a strobe (strobes?) that are connected to Ike's remote slave (manual or TTL). I mention the Ike slave sensors as they can be aimed at your camera while the strobe they are attached to can be aimed at the wreck. I'm not sure you can do that with other brands of slaves.