We did the dolphin swim when we took a Royal Caribbean cruise that stopped off in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
There were three levels of dolphin encounter, only one of which involved actual time in the pool swimming around with them. We chose that one. Got good photos and a video and stuff, provided by the operator. There wouldn't have been much opportunity for us to take our own photos even if we had the underwater camera we now have because the thing was so structured. At any given moment we were supposed to be doing X, Y, or Z to keep the thing moving along. I'm not actually sure if we were *allowed* to take anything like a camera into the water with us; I have vague recollections of being told not to because they didn't want people scraping the dolphins' skin and so forth with cameras.
I've got a Canon A710 camera with an underwater case (WP-DC6) that's worked well so far. We haven't taken it deeper than 15 feet yet but it's never leaked so far.
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Date: 2008-02-18 01:25 pm (UTC)There were three levels of dolphin encounter, only one of which involved actual time in the pool swimming around with them. We chose that one. Got good photos and a video and stuff, provided by the operator. There wouldn't have been much opportunity for us to take our own photos even if we had the underwater camera we now have because the thing was so structured. At any given moment we were supposed to be doing X, Y, or Z to keep the thing moving along. I'm not actually sure if we were *allowed* to take anything like a camera into the water with us; I have vague recollections of being told not to because they didn't want people scraping the dolphins' skin and so forth with cameras.
I've got a Canon A710 camera with an underwater case (WP-DC6) that's worked well so far. We haven't taken it deeper than 15 feet yet but it's never leaked so far.