Confusing Survival with Success
Katy Fraser |
TEDxLSTM
• November 2019
Since deciding to pursue a career in underwater film, Katy's mantra has been to become a proficient technical diver first and foremost in a range of environments, then apply the skill to her camera operation. In 2014 Katy moved to Mexico and over the past six years she has been developing her own independent films through her company She Dives Tech. In 2017, she landed her first major underwater camera operator role in 2 episodes of a 10-part series ‘Expedition with Steve Backshall’ for BBC and UKTV and is continuing to expand into the Natural History film world working for Silverback Films LTD alongside some of the most prolific ‘Blue-Chip’ camera operators in the world.
Katy took the decision to pursue a career in underwater film at the age of 18. It has been her mantra since the very beginning to become a proficient technical diver first and foremost in a range of environments, then apply the skill to her camera operation.
Confusing survival with success is when someone has the misconception that an outcome is successful when it is brought about by a combination of skill and luck, pure luck or worse achieving something but having no clue how they did so or how they are still alive to tell the tale.
Shedding light, both figuratively and literally on cave diving. Katy aims to break the stigma associated with the extreme sport through her underwater imagery and an insight into how she mitigates against risk and fear.