Lost Underwater Camera SAVES lives. I HOPE.

Hi Wetpixel friends,

Please be healthy and get checked for colorectal ( Bowel ) cancer if you have any symptoms or worries in that area.

I have been reading the forums for years, asking for help and getting lots of great advice. And obviously enjoying all the fantastic photos and stories we share of this site.

At last I have one trip report I must write, but I am pressed for time as I have to get to hospital to get my chemo bottle removed and tonight I think, hope I will be on NBC today program with my Dive buddy Geoff telling our story.

In the short space of a week my dive adventure has literally travelled the globe. I will cut and paste the story from the first local newspaper around the 2nd of november. Its not often in life we get a chance to share our

passions and dreams and hopefully save some lives. I still have dreams of winning photo competitions the BBC wildlife would be nice. I go every year without fail and admire the beauty we so skillfully capture. But I have at

least 6 months of chemo before I can back to diving. Not a day goes past when I don't dream of diving with my Nikon D3 or D300, or think back to countless trips especially over the last 4 years to PNG and Palau and around Australia.

We have such a massive and pristine coastline. Which just today they announced plans to make large parts of the south west coast marine reserves. Come downunder and checkout our diving, it is fantastic.

Crazy days change lives, in a nutshell loosing my Olympus 7070 on 23dec2006 resulted in my getting a subal d200 inon setup a week later for an already prepaid and committed trip to PNG to Milne Bay of Mikeball's last trip there on Paradise Sport.

Its was an awesome trip, followed by many other great trips. Getting the SLR really developed my love affair with photography above and below the sea. Especially our on going family holidays.

The amazing rescue photos and video of the boat rolling are on my site www.petertrayhurn.com . Look in the lost, rolled , found folder. My biography says it all.

http://www.petertrayhurn.com/Holidays/Refl.../14393061_Psg7b

My favourite TV story is below

http://abc.com.au/news/video/2010/11/05/3058839.htm

A RADIO story is below

http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/4bc-blog/lost-...1102-17c0v.html

A newspaper story is below

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2010...capsize-rescue/

Keep safe and well. I hope to meet up with some of you on an amazing livaboard adventure sooner rather than later to some rarely visited amazing destination.

I hope I convey how the beauty of the sea, ironically gave and gives me such a strong will to survive and at the same time gets a message out that saves lives.

Not your average trip report. But something different. I now have to get ready to chat a few million about this. Its great to be alive but a little humbling at times.

This is one day I will not forget.

Your passionate underwater photography friend, Peter Trayhurn

Peter,

Wow! What an amazing story. After all you've been through I hope you are well and will continue to dive and make photographs. A few years ago my best friend suffered from cancer, and at age 50 I was reminded of the importance of medical screening. I am OK, but I support your message for everyone to make time to get a check-up. An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.

Be well and dive safely.

Randall

Hi Wetpixel friends,

 

Please be healthy and get checked for colorectal ( Bowel ) cancer if you have any symptoms or worries in that area.

 

I have been reading the forums for years, asking for help and getting lots of great advice. And obviously enjoying all the fantastic photos and stories we share of this site.

At last I have one trip report I must write, but I am pressed for time as I have to get to hospital to get my chemo bottle removed and tonight I think, hope I will be on NBC today program with my Dive buddy Geoff telling our story.

In the short space of a week my dive adventure has literally travelled the globe. I will cut and paste the story from the first local newspaper around the 2nd of november. Its not often in life we get a chance to share our

passions and dreams and hopefully save some lives. I still have dreams of winning photo competitions the BBC wildlife would be nice. I go every year without fail and admire the beauty we so skillfully capture. But I have at

least 6 months of chemo before I can back to diving. Not a day goes past when I don't dream of diving with my Nikon D3 or D300, or think back to countless trips especially over the last 4 years to PNG and Palau and around Australia.

We have such a massive and pristine coastline. Which just today they announced plans to make large parts of the south west coast marine reserves. Come downunder and checkout our diving, it is fantastic.

 

Crazy days change lives, in a nutshell loosing my Olympus 7070 on 23dec2006 resulted in my getting a subal d200 inon setup a week later for an already prepaid and committed trip to PNG to Milne Bay of Mikeball's last trip there on Paradise Sport.

Its was an awesome trip, followed by many other great trips. Getting the SLR really developed my love affair with photography above and below the sea. Especially our on going family holidays.

 

The amazing rescue photos and video of the boat rolling are on my site www.petertrayhurn.com . Look in the lost, rolled , found folder. My biography says it all.

http://www.petertrayhurn.com/Holidays/Refl.../14393061_Psg7b

 

My favourite TV story is below

http://abc.com.au/news/video/2010/11/05/3058839.htm

 

A RADIO story is below

http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/4bc-blog/lost-...1102-17c0v.html

 

A newspaper story is below

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2010...capsize-rescue/

 

Keep safe and well. I hope to meet up with some of you on an amazing livaboard adventure sooner rather than later to some rarely visited amazing destination.

I hope I convey how the beauty of the sea, ironically gave and gives me such a strong will to survive and at the same time gets a message out that saves lives.

Not your average trip report. But something different. I now have to get ready to chat a few million about this. Its great to be alive but a little humbling at times.

This is one day I will not forget.

 

Your passionate underwater photography friend, Peter Trayhurn

Thanks for sharing your story Peter. I absolutely love the fact that after drifting in the ocean for hours you had the photographer's presence of mind to take the shot of your buddy with the freighter and helicopter in the background. The smile on his face says it all. A truly amazing image.

So who made the housing that lasted 4 years bouncing along the bottom?

To your health,

Steve

WOW Peter. With that attitude you'll be hard to stop!

best wishes

darren

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So who made the housing that lasted 4 years bouncing along the bottom?

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Steve

Surely the folks at IKE would be keen to know about that!

thanks for the kind comments.

I really appreciated IKELITE's build quality, the housing actually has a good crack running through it. Not sure how much longer it would have lasted at sea.

The fact it survived bouncing around for 3 years and 8 months and a couple days was nothing but miraculous and then to be found and returned. The olympus 7070 was bone dry. Maybe I will let the kids use it.

I asked IKELITE and OLYMPUS to consider making a donation to COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH, all I can do is ask politely. Lifes to short for dramas, you cannot make someone donate, it has to come from the heart.

The housing and camera sit on a shelf in our loungeroom and remind me of the UNEXPECTED nature of life and diving. And how nine days from a small local newspaper in Australia to the TODAY show on NBC around the world.

It goes to air Friday morning USA time and I am sure the producer will do a great job, she is of dutch background like me. The interview was only 4 minutes, it was actually pretty good fun. Like diving the chandlier cave in Palau.

Feel free to tell your diving mates to watch, it will be on the nbc website for a week or longer.

We are all experienced divers, but the lessons learned were to always carry a huge safety sausage, 50 meters compact strong string. That boat captains are human and sea conditions can be challenging

and maybe its a good idea to hold your camera crossing sand bars. Having good insurance for all your is also essential. It made coping with the events of that day bearable and went straight into the D200 upgrade.

Peter

I had seen the story the other day on Ikelite's website, truly amazing.

Very glad to hear that it worked out for you on both the dive and for your health.

Incredible story Peter! Thanks for sharing it!

Like You mentioned - it's allways good to be prepared on the sea, cause lot's of thing can go wrong in a split of a second.

Cheers

Karel