Using a GoPro harnessed to the body of participants, we sent the camera into the sea, in order to explore how swimming under an open sky makes people feel about themselves and the natural world. Giving people GoPro cameras to record their swims and make pre- and post-swim video diaries, we aimed to investigate the rejuvenating effects of cold water and the connections between swimming and wellbeing. We are interested in the ways in which wellbeing is experienced, understood, and constructed in situ as an unfolding event. Here, we reflect on the methodological challenge of conducting research on the move and in water. We suggest that the technological innovation of the GoPro, a lightweight, small, rugged and, most essentially for us, waterproof camera, provides new means of addressing methodological challenges, while the combination of this technology with the video diary method enables the development of a multidimensional and multisensory account that mixes together talk and action, helping us to develop more immersive and attentive ways of doing research through which we can come to understand different ways of being in the water.

我们使用绑在参与者身上的 GoPro 摄像机，将摄像机送入海中，以探索在开阔的天空下游泳如何让人们感受自己和自然世界。为人们提供 GoPro 相机记录他们的游泳并制作游泳前后的视频日记，我们旨在调查冷水恢复活力的效果以及游泳与健康之间的联系。我们对在现场体验、理解和构建幸福感的方式感兴趣作为一个展开的事件。在这里，我们反思了在移动和水中进行研究的方法论挑战。我们建议 GoPro 的技术创新，一种轻便、小巧、坚固且对我们来说最重要的是防水相机，提供了解决方法论挑战的新方法，而这项技术与视频日记方法的结合可以开发一种将谈话和行动混合在一起的多维和多感官帐户，帮助我们开发更加身临其境和专注的研究方式，通过这些方式我们可以了解在水中的不同方式。