Less is more

Mike Ross · Issue 94, Jan/Feb 2017 · pp. 37–40

Products mentioned: Scoones housing, Olympus OM-1, Nikonos V, Hydroscan camera

During the mid to late eighties I was living and working out of Dubai in the Middle East, at the time this was, and no doubt still is, the central hub for commercial diving companies servicing the offshore oil and Gas industry in and around the Middle East and India. My introduction to the Scoones housed camera systems started with a project run by one of the larger oilfield diving companies in Dubai of that time ‘Oceaneering’ I had been hired previously as a diver/ photo-tech with Fraser diving out of their Singapore division, that particular project was based off of Labuan in Borneo. Their choice of weapon primarily being the Nikonos cameras and strobes combined with C-4 print process. As I was also a keen amateur fish photographer and owned my own Nikonos V (c/w various strobes & lenses) the arrangement was that I would start as diver/photo-tech until the ‘real photo- tech’ turned up …