Teamwork in competitions

Staff · Issue 104, Sep/Oct 2018 · pp. 4

Editorial Teamwork in competitions The title of this section may seem a little odd but, as usual, please bear with me. The original idea came about when I went on a short press trip with Charles Hood to Iceland way back in 2005 (UwP24 to be precise). We were diving the Silfra Crack and only had a couple of dives allocated on a long weekend trip. The first dive was an amazing experience but photographically frustrating as I didn’t want to ‘waste’ my dive time posing for Charlie and he almost certainly didn’t either. Over an evening aperitif we both independently came to the conclusion that the only way we were to come away with good diver images was to work ‘10 on and 10 off’ i.e. I would pose for him for 10 minutes and then he’d pose for me. The end results were nothing short of amazing. We both knew what shots the other was taking so knew not to duplicate them and as a result we both go…