Patent ID: 8120650
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: A01K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An underwater observation gear comprising, a miniature video camera enclosed together with a battery and fiber-optical transmitter in a water-tight enclosure having a window, a portable video monitor attachable to a handle, a fishing reel attached to said handle and having a monofilament fiber-optic line wounded on the spool and protruding through the channel axially located in the spool shaft, and a security string having two ends with both ends connected to the side of said camera straddling the camera center of gravity and with the middle of said string connected to the fiber optic line above the camera, for positioning the said camera horizontally, wherein said fiber-optic line is optically coupled with the said fiber-optical transmitter on one end and a fiber-optical receiver on the other end, and wherein the fiber-optic line is a plastic optically transmitting fiber having a cladding layer with the refraction index lower than the refraction index of the fiber core.