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Underwater Videography Courses and HD Underwater Video - ThailandWelcome to the World of Oceans Below!Oceans Below, Koh Tao's Leader in Professional HD Underwater Videography Courses and HD Underwater Video Production Training is located on the beautiful island of Koh Tao, Thailand. It was founded by 2 experienced PADI & BSAC Dive Instructors who continue to pursue their true passion in diving...
Thanks to our extensive underwater videography diving experience, knowledge and passion for filming marine life, we are able to present a large collection of diverse High Definition HD underwater video Stock Footage that you can access for use in your own video productions.
Oceans Below Underwater Videography is Koh Tao's pre-eminent HD Videographer training facility. Whether you're interested in joining the ranks of Koh Tao's professional divers and videographers or you're looking to expand your knowledge of marine filming and post-production, we offer professional-level HD Underwater videography courses. Click here for information on our underwater videography courses. We offer our filming and editing services for long term or short term cooperations including: promotional videos for dive shops, resorts and dive live-aboards as well as souvenir videos and teaching aid videos, documentaries and feature-length films. Oceans Below can coordinate all aspects of video production - from start to finish, producing land based footage and hd underwater video. | 
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Written by Aidy
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 14:27 |
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February was a fantastic month for the full Oceans Below Team on Koh Tao! With so much going on, I've hardly gotten a free moment to write of the new events. At the beginning of the month, new trainee David Trescot started his BSAC Professional HD Underwater Videographer course with us. David didn't need much help with learning the Adobe Premiere Pro software as he was once the Sr. Director of Digital Video at Adobe Systems! More recently, he was on the Board of Directors at Total Training, Inc. So, as you can imagine, he already knew something about the program... and then some! But underwater video is a very different animal to surface shooting and editing, so we were able to point him in the right direction in lots of other areas. Then as David was starting his Documentary Internship, an old friend of his, Erik Lundblade, arrived to start his pro video course. Erik used to work at Adobe as OEM Product Manager for Premiere and After Effects! He was joined by Kristian, a dive instructor from Norway. These two guys really got stuck into their course as we jetted around the island on the Good Time Adventures speed boat. They've both taken to the course well and have been a lot of fun to have around.
Kristian and Erik, pre-dive...
We've had a great time hosting the guys from Adobe with us at Oceans Below. Special thanks to Darius and his amazing Texas barbecue from the Oceans Below crew! We were even lucky enough to have Bill Hensler, VP of Dynamic Media at Adobe Systems, hanging out in the office when he wasn't on his PADI Open Water course. Bill was nice enough to bring us a few new copies of the Premiere Pro software in anticipation of the new desktops we have on order. It's good to know some of the guys behind the scenes of the software we love so much. Without the Adobe CS package this job would be a lot harder. But don't just take our word for it, to see all of the possibilities of the program, just go and see the new hit movie Avatar! Now David has gone back to the States, Erik is starting his PADI Divemaster course at Scuba Junction- Koh Tao, and Kristian is moving into the second week of his documentary internship. March started with an intensive course for team Sweden. David & Mikael are on a tight schedule, so we've customized the program in order to get them through it in 10 days rather than the typical 14. The schedule has been tough, but they've proven to be naturals at it and they've impressed us all with their progress. 
Swedish Mikael at Twins
Mikael and David...
Today we'll be going out with Koh Tao Easy Divers for Mikael's last day of filming. We'll have our fingers crossed for something amazing to come along on his last two dives! |
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Written by Aidy
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Monday, 15 February 2010 09:59 |
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At Oceans Below, we're always on the look out for ways to improve our service and facilities. We have long been associated with first class dive resorts on Koh Tao such as Koh Tao Easy Divers, Sea Shell Divers, Siam Scuba, and Simple Life Dive Resort. We have recently teamed up with Good Time Adventures who have a fantastic long-hulled speed boat that allows us to access any of Koh Tao's dive sites in a matter of minutes, and to run trips at 'off-hours' when we're sure to have the sites to ourselves. We've also joined ranks with 'The Film Company' operating out of Bans Dive Resort, and are now supplying them with videographers to film their resort videos. This is a great opportunity for our trainees to get paid work after our BSAC Professional HD Underwater Video Internship! Now, we're happy to announce our newest partnership on Koh Tao... Scuba Junction, who are one of Koh Tao's oldest, most professional, and most recognized dive centres, teaching both PADI & SSI courses, will now be working together with Oceans Below! We're looking forward to employing their staff and facilities in the training of our video students to get the prerequisite skills to join our courses. We'll also be sending our staff out to film their students with an eye towards promoting the dive shop and allowing their students to leave with souvenir DVD's of their dive experience on Koh Tao. 
The shop is conveniently located just a few minutes walk from the Oceans Below studio, and situated right in the middle of Sairee Beach. So now, our videography staff and BSAC Underwater Video students can walk from Oceans Below to the beach, hop on the Scuba Junction long tail boat and get taken to their dive boat- The Manta Ray- in no time at all. Underwater Video training in Thailand couldn't be easier! 
We REALLY look forward to working with Scuba Junction!
As a way of welcoming Scuba Junction into the fold, we'll invite them and all of the staff from our existing dive centres for a big barbecue at Vibe Bar on Sairee Beach on the 17th! Welcome aboard!!! |
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Written by Aidy
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 06:30 |
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At Oceans Below we've long been specializing in teaching Professional Underwater Video training in Thailand, focusing on the use of full manual controls on HD video cameras and underwater housings. Our trainees normally then progress on to an internship program. But we also teach underwater photography from time-to-time.
 
A few days ago, one of our trainees found out he had to postpone his BSAC Pro HD Video course at short notice which allowed us an opportunity to fit in a 2 day underwater photography course. I ended up teaching to a lovely couple who had just finished their PADI Advanced Open Water course at Koh Tao Easy Divers. It was a pleasure to teach two people who were so interested in what they were doing. They listened and learned and got more and more hooked on underwater cameras and photography as the days passed. I find it really rewarding to see complete beginners develop so fast! Their results were fantastic- I think the results speak for themselves... 
Hard to believe- all thse photos were taken by relatively new divers after only 2 days of training with Oceans Below! |
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