Julia’s “Fishing For Footage” project has attracted some funding that took us over to Ullapool for a couple of days to meet up with the young folk at Ullapool Youth Space and chat to them about what we’ve been doing, let them have a look at the kit we’ve developed, check out the footage, and most importantly have a go with it themselves.

Now, when it comes to deep water and young people and funded projects you have to be careful, taking them anywhere near the sea requires a lot of expertise and risk management that we frankly don’t have. But we’d scoped out the local river, which is mostly too shallow to drown in unless you make a real effort.

Not only that, but the kids knew of a spot just upstream from where they normally swim (yeah, they can swim there for fun, but not for our project without paperwork!) where we could drop The Fish in from a bridge and just let it play with the current, the results were lovely. The river is quite peaty, meaning there’s a red tinge to the water, it really makes the green of the plant life pop on video.

The following is raw footage filmed by the young folk who took charge.