there are so many cameras that can be submerged,
we are spoilt for choice at almost all price ranges, some as cheap as £10.00, that can be submerged to 10 meters! but back in 1938 there was virtually no such thing as an underwater camera, then along came Bruce Mozert who pioneered
underwater photography by developing waterproof housings for his cameras, and the pictures he took were and still are stunning,
He was born in Ohio in
1916 and moved to New York in 1938, while en route to Miami, he stopped at the
Florida state park Silver Springs where a Tarzan movie was being filmed, the
die was cast, he had to have a camera that would work underwater, but there was no still camera that he could buy, so he
designed and built one himself,
he took his invention to Hollywood, where he worked and is credited for inventing the first high-speed camera case and first
underwater lighting system,
his work was featured in Life, Look, and
National Geographic amongst other publications,
and of course he put Silver Springs in the Florida State Park firmly on the map,
sadly He died in 2015 at the age of 98 near Silver Springs,
Florida, but what a legacy he left behind him, to think of making an underwater housing yourself and taking at the time such unique pictures.
No comments:
Post a Comment