How Swimming Photographers Make Their Underwater Moment

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Trent
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To Get the Shot, Nerve, Luck and Scuba Gear

Sports photographers who shoot underwater spend an extended time at the bottom of the pool, hoping to capture Olympic history.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/sports/olympics/how-swimming-photographers-make-their-underwater-moment.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

A camera rests three meters down, its lens protected by a clear glass dome the size of mixing bowl. Al Bello, a 44-year-old Brooklyn native and an award-winning photographer for Getty Images, placed it there a week ago.