It's been a busy period for the Storm Surfers team. Following the release of our second documentary 'Storm Surfers New Zealand' last July, the last ten months have been spent formulating ideas and building camera rigs for our next project - Storm Surfers 3D.

Filming in 3D is a tricky operation at the best of times, but venturing out into wild open ocean swells under stormy conditions throws a curveball of the highest order. We've had to build most of the camera rigs from the ground up - you can't just buy this stuff off the shelf - as well as engineer solutions to solve problems that wouldn't arise if we were filming a regular sport from the comfort of dry land.

Fortunately, our timing couldn't have been better. With the final screws on the camera rigs tightened last week the Southern Ocean came to life, allowing us to start shooting for the new project. Last weekend Ross Clarke-Jones, Tom Carroll and I - plus a fifteen-strong technical crew - headed south to Tasmania to capture Shipsterns in full flight. Surfing alongside local chargers Marti Paradisis, James Hollmer Cross, Mikey Brennan and Tyler Hollmer Cross, a dozen 3D cameras attached to boats, boards, skis and surfers filmed Shipsterns as it's never been recorded before.

The entire Storm Surfers team is now on standby to chase the biggest swells around the continent for the next four months. All of the footage will appear next year in four one-hour shows for the brand new American 3D channel 3Net (owned by Discovery, IMAX and Sony) and the UK's Sky3D, as well as a full length feature film for Australian and International release by Madman Entertainment. Until then, here's a bunch of weekend stills captured by perennial Tasmanian photog Andy Chisholm. //BEN MATSON