There are a lot of places you can mount a GoPro. Most of us in this little club like to wear them as cinematic mouthpieces, some choose to just plop them on the front of their board, heck there’s even a hat you can wear in the water with a GoPro mount attached. As long as you’re not too cool for school you can bring the things along anywhere you desire. At least now they really can go on any adventure.
Cinematographer Andy Casagrande wanted to take his wildlife documentary game to a whole new level when he decided to mount a GoPro on the back of a hammerhead shark. He clearly achieved that, grabbing onto the head of a shark then clipping the custom made mount onto its dorsal fin, all to give us this ride along footage. As for the mount itself, Casagrande says “The [clamp] system has a dissolve link that corrodes over a few hours in salt water, then the spring tension releases [and] it floats to the surface,” making sure the camera wasn’t stuck on the shark for eternity. When the mount dissolved the camera was released, floated to the surface, and tracked through a high-frequency radio to retrieve the footage.
Somebody get this shark an Instagram account.
