Hot Cuppa TV: Sean Casey of ‘Storm Chasers’ Captured a Twister (on Film, That Is)
December 7, 2009 – 4:41 pmKate O’Hare’s Hot Cuppa TV profiles filmmaker Sean Casey on his most work in Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers.”
This past Sunday, Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers” closed out its third season with a bang — and a little blood.
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IMAX filmmaker Sean Casey put it all on the line to get the tornado-core footage he’s been chasing for years.
As you can see in this clip, the turret of his 16,000-pound armored TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle), and the IMAX camera it protects, nearly got away from him.
In a scene reminiscent of the 1996 storm-chasing action classic “Twister,” Casey pulled with all he had, howling into the maelstrom, to prevent himself and the massively expensive camera from being sucked up into the funnel.
June 5, 2009, is a day that Sean Casey will never forget.
“We had a pretty exciting spring, didn’t we?” he says.
Asked what it was like to be clinging to his camera with all his might, Casey (a Southern California resident whose hobby, interestingly enough, is gardening), “We were extremely focused on getting that footage that we’ve been desperately trying to get for the last seven years. So you’re really trying to maintain your focus on getting that job done and not trying to focus on the tornado and getting lost in the excitement of the moment.
“The minute you get lost in the sheer terror of a tornado coming at you, you’re likely to make mistakes, like not turning the camera on.”
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