How to save your GoPro from drowning for $1
Sep 12, 2016
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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A while back I was on a family trip and used a GoPro to capture some memories. I put the gopro on the end of a selfie stick and the family took turns taking videos. Suddenly, someone, I am not naming names here, dropped the stick.
Now, the camera (and stick) sunk to the bottom of the lake and we never could find them. I later realized that I should have used a buoy rather than a selfie stick. A buoy makes the camera float when it is in the water. Now, a buoy is not expensive, it is only a few dollars on amazon, or $2 on ebay shipping included, as noted in the comments. Sadly, I was nowhere near a store where I could buy one.
Now comes the lesson, I should have just repurposed a drinking bottle. That would have made a $1 buoy and saved a $500 camera:
1. cut a small hole in the bottle cap and screw the gopro mount into the cap
2. save your camera
P.S. this is actually clever even if you are just using a small camera and need an impromptu tripod.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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7 responses to “How to save your GoPro from drowning for $1”
You can find the Yellow handled ones like in the video for under $1 with free shipping on Ebay.
now you tell me…. added a link in the post….
A short chunk of pool noodle wrapped around the selfie stick would achieve the same results without losing the standoff distance the selfie stick provides. They’re only a buck at the dollar store and if you really want to get fancy there are a number of videos on youtube on how to spiral cut them.
The other option is to just use a piece string, paracord or even gaffer tape to tie an empty bottle to the selfie stick/camera combo. It has the advantage that it can be done pretty much anywhere at a moment’s notice.
Tl;DR – Attach a giant soda bottle to it. Yeah, so handy.
nice. :)
uhhh…your setup premise was losing your gopro while using a selfie-stick, so how exactly would this “solution” work with a selfie-stick?? I guess you’d jam the end of the stick through the side of the plastic bottle, or something?…