The Ultimate Camera Housing
To Capture Video Of A Tornado From The Inside !
The Theiss-Device was designed to be placed in front of a
Tornado and get the ultimate video of a tornado up close and
personal. The scenes of whole trees getting ripped out of the
ground "roots still attached" will be breath taking and will
show the raw power of a Tornado! The window that the camera will
video through is thick Lexan (bullet-proof glass). We have
installed a high quality professional Sony 3-chip video camera
as a sacrifice camera to put inside the housing. When sealed up
it's completely water-proof and the entire unit weighs 90
pounds. The TD is equipped with a GPS tracker so we can recover
the housing after we get it inside a tornado. If it takes a
direct hit from a powerful tornado it could end up miles away
from the original deployment location.
This will take allot of skill and some luck too.
Stay Tuned.....
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The Theiss-Device appeared
on National Geographic's "Tornado Hunters" program in 2005.
First Tornado Attempt:
Tornado Dissipated before it reached the Theiss-Device
Video stills
provided by Jim Leonard
May 7 2002: Mike Theiss deploys the Theiss-Device and the Dillo-Cam
in the path of a 1/2 mile wide Tornado in Kansas. But, the
tornado missed the probes as it passed just to the south and dissipated.
Hurricane Attempt:
Theiss-Device captures
Hurricane Katrina's record setting storm surge as it happened.
