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Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/24/2014 - 17:41
A series of Mars seminars is to be held at Böda harbor in July. If you are on Öland this summer iit´s a great oppurtunity to learn more about this magnificent ship and also visit the harbor where the diving operations is based.
Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/24/2014 - 00:55
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
Ocean Discovery is proud to have been part of this remarkable diving expedition to the cave Hoyo Negro in Mexico. Ocean Discoverys divers filmed the deep part of the underwater video directed by Mike Madden. The upcoming documentary is produced by National Geographic Television and NOVA.
The cave named Hoyo Negro, black hole in spanish is a massive cave room. Forty meters from bottom to celing and more then one hundred meter long the room is absolutely spectacular decorated with stalactites in the ceiling. The room is littered with over twenty species of extinct animals including Mamuts and sabre toth tigers. Crystal clear water combined with surface supplied HMI lights carefully placesd around the room made for a specatcular scene. Ocean Discovery used 4k Sony F55 cameras to capture images that are truly epic.
Watch the video on National Geographics web site
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/11/2013 - 01:30
One of the objectives of the 2013 shipwreck Mars Exepedition was photogrammetry 3D images. Florian Huber from Kiel University did some expirimental work for the project. He used a specialy calibrated DSLR camera and the images where processed in to a 3D model with an accuracy of 0.5mm. The below image is a screen dump from the 3D virewer. The resilt was so sucessufull that we plan to do more photogrammetry in 2014, possibly covering the entire wrecksite. 
Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/24/2013 - 20:35
Underwater 360 panorama of the shipwreck Bremsund. This is just an early test of concept. The plan is to make a virtual tour of the shipwreck Mars in the future where the viewer can click on different areas of the wreck and explore 360 panoramas.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 08/16/2013 - 23:43
Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 21:35
Erik Börjeson www.ericborjeson.com is building a light rig for this summers Mars project. The small scale prototype is tested and working and he is now going full scale. The total output from the LED lights will be 4500W. That is about the same as 20 Halcyon 200W HMI lights! This will be unreal. The light output will be 400.000 lumen! The goal is to illuminate 400 square meters to be able to reach F5,6 at ISO 800. There is virtually no ambient light on the Mars wreck so this artificial sun will be awesome for the filming and for still photography. It will be powered by a 6000w top side generator. A four point mooring will be set up to hold a ship with generator above the site. The amazing images on the Ghost ship used a light rig producing 100.000 lumen, this will have 4 times that output.
http://www.ericborjeson.com/
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 10:43
The Elena Konstantinou movie The return to USS Atlanta defender of Guadalcanal claimed the prestigious Spirit of Independence Award at the film festival in Fortlauderdale FL USA. Ocean Discovery is proud to have been part of the making of this fantastic production.
Submitted by admin on Sun, 10/14/2012 - 18:12
Today Richard Lundgren was awarded diver of the conference award at Eurotek for his long search for the shipwreck Mars.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 16:50
The TV documentary Tall Ships at war is under production. Filming started this summer both on land and underwater. Using the very best video technology available. A custom built housing designed by Erik Börjeson for the Red Epic 5K promises ultra-high resolution and image quality. There is no ambient light at 70m so the biggest challenge is to light the scene. The team at times had up to 6 off camera 200 Watt HMI lights in the water simultaneously to light the wreck site.
In 2013 the underwater video production will continue with an even more ambitious plan. We hope to deploy a 5000 Watt ship-tethered HMI light to put an artificial sun just above the wreck. This should be equivalent to about 20.000 Watt halogen light output.
Richard Lundgren and Carl Douglas preparing the Ocean Eye custom built housing for the Red Epic 5K camera. Photo Ingemar Lundgren
GUE´s Jarrod Jablonsky lighting the scene for videographer Richard Lundgren. Photo Ingemar Lundgren
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