DATELINE:20th january 2002

SEAL CAMERAMEN LEAVE DIVERS STANDING
Seals have been kitted out with underwater cameras and lighting by researchers from the University of Texas. The animals shot unique footage under the Antarctic ice.
The researchers were becoming frustrated at their lack of information about the endangered toothfish. Attaching cameras to the seals allowed them to record ground-breaking data about the habitat and movements of the toothfish.
So does this mean that divers will become redundant as underwater cameramen? The seals may be able to go where no human diver could, but their talents as film-makers are rather dubious, as the shaky footage on the website shows.
The seals also have an un-nerving habitat of snacking on the fish being filmed.

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