Media News - Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Photographers, cameras dunked in photo op capsize

Camera equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was destroyed and photographers were left clinging to an upturned boat Tuesday during a photo opportunity for New Zealand's Olympic rowing team. Cameramen from New Zealand's three major television networks and agency and newspaper photographers were using a launch to photograph the rowers on Lake Karapiro, south of Auckland, before their departure for Beijing. But the launch began taking on water, rapidly filled and capsized. The launch driver and six passengers were wearing life jackets and were able to cling to the hull of the capsized boat until they could be ferried to safety. Television cameras and photographic equipment, however, sank to the bottom of the lake. No one was injured. Rowing New Zealand communications manager Richard Gee said the reason for the sinking was not known as the launch was not overcrowded and the lake was calm. (AP)

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