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Old 11-01-2014, 06:47 PM
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kinetic (Steve)
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Water boatmen insects in our pool

I wasn't sure where to put this video, so I put it in the terrestrial section.

We have these swimming in our pool, the last few tough ones somehow
surviving the 5000 parts per million salinity and chlorinator.
That usually kills em.

I tried my waterproof housing today on the GoPro clone I have,
to see if I could make use of the 60 fps setting and 'slow down' their action.

See here for full speed swimming:
http://youtu.be/Q7qjFxBvyDk

and here for slowed down to 0.125x
http://youtu.be/MM46ulPa5N4

Some interesting facts about them here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ure-Earth.html

.....and I thought the noise outside was just the pool pump humming....

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