Backing Up

Steve Warren · Issue 3, Dec 2001 · pp. 48–52

Products mentioned: Nikon F90

Matt Crowther was on time for work. It was a bad omen. Matt was never on time. He’d returned from a week in the Red Sea observing early taping for the BBC production “Blue Planet”. He placed the company Nikon F90 on the counter. “It’s only slightly wet. Look the display still works...” His voice trailed off. For Crowther, who would later go on to be a key writer for Dive Magazine, this was his first flood. The camera, not withstanding the working top display, was of course ,destroyed. Ocean Optics had paid for Matt’s place on the unique charter to let him try out a range of new equipment as part of his product training. The loss of a camera so early on in the trip could have been a disaster. Experienced divers increasingly focus on redundancy. Any item of equipment whose failure could endanger them is duplicated. That includes items like regulators, buoyancy systems, computers and masks.…