August 2018, Maldives. During the classic night dive at Alimathà, a curious incident happened to me. I was underwater with my GoPro 7, filming some nurse sharks. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a fast movement: a Blacktip Reef Shark was heading straight for me at high speed...
This article comes from a real-life experience. My friend Sorin gave me the card from his GoPro HERO12 with the footage from our dives in the Maldives, including the incredible ones with the Spinner Sharks in Huvadhoo, hoping to get a Reel for his Instagram profile out of it. Imagine my disappointmen...
Last night I watched the Ocean Ramsey documentary on Netflix, who I've been following on social media for years. As a videomaker, I can only say: the image quality is insane, some of the most beautiful underwater footage I've ever seen. Truly impeccable work. A lot of people criticize her, saying she takes too many risks
For those who use the GoPro Labs firmware, camera customization is done via well-established tools: the QR Control smartphone app for in-the-field adjustments, and the official GoPro QR Code Creator page for desktop. These are now joined by a third way, as innovative as it is powerful: a conversational assistant (a custom GPT) created by the brilliant David Newman...
In view of my next trip, I dedicated time to a fundamental operation: running the write and read tests on all of my microSD cards. First of all, I downloaded the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app from this link. For optimal preparation, I formatted all the cards directly with the GoPro (even if, to tell the truth...
Sometimes, the most unexpected places offer the strongest emotions. This was the case for me with Siyal Island, which I discovered in August 2023 during a diving cruise to St. John’s, Egypt. Siyal is incredibly remote: it lies 5 nautical miles south of the Abu Fendera...
The following footage is from a liveaboard trip to the Farasan Banks, Saudi Arabia, in 2023. During that week, where I unfortunately participated as an individual diver and not as a group leader, I witnessed repeated incidents of serious disrespect towards the marine environment. Numerous corals were damaged by hands and fins...
This is a topic that is particularly to my heart, because it touches the safety of each one of us and, at times, it can make the difference between a memorable dive and a tragedy: the importance of having the GoPro ALWAYS secured to one's own equipment. Not a simple piece of advice for not losing the video camera and...
I dived for the first time at Small Crack in June 2024, during a “Sharm & Wrecks” cruise with Mastro Sommerso on board the M/Y Diamante. As soon as I put my head underwater, I immediately regretted not having been there before. Sha’ab Mahmud, the imposing semi-emergent coral reef on the route...
Too many times I see divers finning with the GoPro dangling, free to hit anywhere. It is a bad habit to avoid for many reasons. The most important is the protection of the marine environment: a GoPro that dangles freely represents a danger for the delicate ecosystem of the reef. It is easy to hit and break the fragile...