The Not-So-Little Mermaid

Tom rips open the box that we've been waiting for soooo long.


Wow! She's a pretty thing isn't she! (Luci is waiting in the left corner to get a chance to mark her)


And quite manly too!


She feels like she weighs 5kgs. Quite a Big Girl (But of course to WildFilms this is nothing, since we are used to hauling several car batteries out for lighting)

With the NSL Mermaid, we can now shoot in 30m of water...which doesn't happen much at low tide, true.

But at least now cam operators can actually see what they are shooting and avoid silly situations like this....




Time to put the NSL Mermaid together and RTFM (Read The ****ing Manual)....
....but there's nothing like a manual in the box!

and nothing on the website either.

Time to call Dr "Let-Me-Fix-It" Low for a house call

(We of course first tried Mr Lee, but it appears he's out of town)

The guys eventually figure out how to put her together. Now time to fill up the bath tub and see if she is indeed watertight.

Meanwhile, there is some above water testing now, to the accompaniment of submarine sound effects courtesy of Dr Low.

We realise the bath tub plug don't work too good. We might need to use the washing machine...But wait! We find that putting a can of 100plus works nicely as a plug.

And she is pronounced waterproof!!

The guys are not very impressed though. Apparently, the assembly needs to be improved with strings (to pull out the cam) and a bunch of taping here and there. Sigh. All our equipment seem to require a whole bunch of jury-rigging. I suppose no one is crazy enough to abuse equipment the way we do.

Alvin, if you want to save the Girl, better come home soon before she gets seriously mangled...