Doubt it. Some minimal instruction needs to happen. Most PADI places offer discover scuba 'course'. Look it up, there's nothing to it and you'll be underwater in one day.
Thank you for the kind words. I didn't use any lights at all. Most of the days the skies were partly overcast. Despite that, I'm pretty happy with how the video turned out. Got lucky with full on sun in shallow water for some of the shots. That's where colours are most vivid. Red filter helped a lot. Was pretty dissapointed about very dark image of the shark, but recovered a bit of brightness in post processing. It was way brighter to the eyes as compared to the video. Only after the fact I read up on the solution to this. Lower framerate is key to low light with GoPro. This way each frame gets exposed over longer period of time and the image is brighter. Protune also helps. Camera was mounted on an extendable selfie stick. Enjoy your vacation, and if you'll have some videos to share, send me a link!
The clip is put together from multiple dives. Still learning, but I'm completely aware of do's and don'ts. Any screwups are unintentional. Nothing worse than ignorant people who simply don't care enough to care. :) The goals for future recordings is to get to a level where subjects go on about their business and aren't scared away by me trying to film them. That will be whole other level...
Most of jamaica's coral reefs died in the 1980s from hurricanes especially gilbert in 1988 plus pollution, sand mining and now global warming so there is not much to see in our waters
