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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:15 am 
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This is amazing and beautiful video by Rick Rosenthal (of National Geographic underwater video fame) shows Pilot Whales and spinner Dolphin in crystal clear water off Hawaii. Rick has been using our Hobie Mirage kayaks to get closer to marine life without spooking them.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglSeyuq7Wk&list=UUo9hT81uxZpEJiDfN1DXLvQ&index=1[/youtube]

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:16 pm 
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Very cool video! Hobie kayaks once again fill a nich like no other!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:40 pm 
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Fabulous! Thanks for posting!

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:39 am 
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Loved it. An ad without being an ad. Excellent piece of work.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:02 pm 
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What the others said! More of this please Hobie. Great viewing. 8)

PS: Loved the teaser clips showing R&D of Hobie's new sprayshield! Looking forward to the final product release! :wink:
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:38 pm 
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mmiller wrote:
Rick has been using our Hobie Mirage kayaks to get closer to marine life without spooking them.


That's the one thing that has AMAZED me about the Mirage Drive boats. My video skills and camera equipment are nowhere near as good as Rick's, but we caught these videos of Beavers when nobody else could even get close, simply because we had Mirage Drive boats. Not to mention the moose, and other wildlife that I was able to get so close to.

The Mirage Drive really is amazing!

I wasn't using a great camera back then, but you can get the idea.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMa2fRcd-Y[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuZN3LrAVA[/youtube]

This next video was taken a year later at a completely different park

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRrqGhRWCAU[/youtube]

For this last video, I get a little shaky, that's because I was much closer than the video makes it look, and I wanted to be sure that if that moose started coming after me, that I was ready to motor!! (or should I say Mirage!!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVsrYr84tE[/youtube]

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