Hampton Roads, VA. Video Atlantic captured the dramatic footage that helped win an Emmy in the Special Reporting category. The video was shot inside a sinking car as WAVY TV reporter Andy Fox and Video Atlantic diver/cameraman David Mims rode the compact station wagon to the 25 foot bottom of Owl’s Creek. The news feature was to show how to escape a vehicle that had crashed into deep water.
  As the car begin to sink, Fox demonstrated that he could not open the door until the pressure inside equaled the outside pressure. That happened on the creek’s bottom when the car was full of water.
Fox, dressed in street clothes, had a small SCUBA tank on floor in case of emergency. Mims, in dive gear, sat on the passenger floor with his back to the car’s dashboard. The passenger seat had been removed.
 

   Inside video equipment included a wide angle lens on a Sony camera in an Amphibico housing with an external mic to get Fox’s dialogue. Two cameras also recorded the event from the shore. The station wagon was environmentally clean. The gas tank, radiator and all fluids had been removed and the motor flushed.
 Three Virginia Beach Rescue divers were in the water and police, fire and ambulance personnel waited on shore, if needed.
  A wrecker pushed the wagon with Fox and Mims inside down the ramp. The car hit the water at about 25 mph and... floated. Fox told his audience the best thing to do at this point was roll down the window and get out. "Even with power windows," Fox said, "you still have a couple of minutes before the system fails and the car goes under." However, Fox and Mims stayed with the car to show what would happen as the car went under.
  The wagon slowly tilted forward, the motor being the heaviest part, and water began to rush in through the vents. When the car passed through 45 degrees there was a loud thump as the pressure equalized and the wagon took a nose dive into the muck. Visibility went to zero. Fox opened

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