Innovative Delivers Thrilling Shark Island Challenge: A Bodyboarding Spectacle with Cutting-Edge Broadcast Technology

It’s been a massive year here at innovative and one of the highlights has been delivering the most prestigious bodyboarding event in the world, the Shark Island Challenge – one of the most dangerous waves on the planet! 

The event is slated to be held within a 2-month waiting period (to ensure the waves are massive!) featuring the world’s best bodyboarders who travel from all corners of the globe.  

Event organisers can only give the green light for the competition to run 3 days prior which obviously provides a lot of obstacles and making the pre-production stage critical. Weeks were spent on site visits, meetings with key stakeholders, testing of the scoring systems, preloading all content, integration of graphics, booking / re booking crew and everything in between. 

We were responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the 6-camera live broadcast which featured our Fujinon UA107x8.4 4K Box Lenses- the break is 300m offshore, so it was critical that we used the best possible equipment available to put the viewers in the box seat. We remotely integrated the Inspire 3 drone and positioned our reporter on a 50-foot boat in the channel bringing us live updates and interviews with the riders which was wirelessly RF linked back to our OB position.  

Check out some of the highlights from the day – it was a wild ride!