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Hey, my name's Steve Haining, and I just
beat the Guinness World Record for Deepest
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Underwater Model Photo Shoot with my
friends Sierra Antowski and Wayne Fryman
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So when Sierra showed interest in being part of
this third world record shoot, I was excited
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because her and I work really well together. When you work underwater,
there's no having conversations and there's no art direction
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All of the communication for the most part
happens on the surface before you even do
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dive down. Sierra and I work really well in those
conditions. And because of that, I was excited for her
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to be part of the next challenge, but she needed
the training. So I introduced her to Isla Divers in
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Florida. And then she actually went beyond and
practiced. She flew down and we did a bunch of test
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shoots. The thing with underwater is that there's
a lot of things that can go wrong. There's not
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really an escape plan. And now that we're going beyond
the no decompression limit, there's even a time
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and limit for when we can surface if there's an emergency. The
shipwreck we chose for the shoot is called the Hydro-Atlantic
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It's a technical dive site and its
highest point sits at about 130 feet
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which is deeper than 90% of the
divers out there can even get to
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So it's not a very common site. There's also no mooring line,
which means there's nothing on the surface bobbing around
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with a line connecting you directly
to the location of the shipwreck
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So because of that, Ray, who was helping me play planned this
whole thing and myself dove in right when we got to the wreck
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We went down and tied off a mooring line. One of the funnier
concerns is that when we arrived, there was fissures baiting and
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fishing in the water right above where we were shooting. And they not supposed to be doing that on dive sites Once we arrived they left and
we thought everything was fine But on that initial dive down that rain I went there was a big tiger shark just down around the wreck Luckily
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when we actually went down to do the dive, that
shark had since left, or at least he hid good enough
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that we couldn't see him. Then we sat on the
deck and we talked with Sierra and with Wayne
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and I figured out exactly what we were going to do,
where we were going to drop in in the spots that we
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were going to pick on the wreck. I had two plans
for lighting. One was a set of flashes on my camera
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that I could extend out pretty far. And then
the second was that we had really powerful cave
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torch lights that we could point at the model and
use. Having enough air at that depth was another
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big concern because the deeper that you go, the
more atmospheres of pressure there are, which
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shortens the amount of air supply you actually have.
So we all had enough air and then enough backup air
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and then even more air just in
case. The shoot went really good
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We all love the photos. It kind of
has me itching to go back to that spot
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but we're going to take a little break
for now. So to this team, to Isla Divers
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who I presented this crazy idea too, and they said, yeah,
and let me go on my photography antics and adventures
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and just were there every step of the way with us.
This record is because of that whole group of team
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that you don't see behind the scenes. For me, for Sierra, for Wayne,
for everybody who has been part of any of these things that we do
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I think that beating the world records for us, honestly,
is just something that's a pure passion project
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for stuff that we already love doing and we're doing anyway. I'm not too sure
right now, but I know my friends, and there's always going to be another adventure
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coming up pretty soon
