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VIDEO or IMAGE. Go through a TSA (or your country’s equivalent) checkpoint dressed for snorkeling. Explain to the TSA what you're doing, prior to doing it. If they don't allow it, don't do it.

I wasn't holding my breath, and I didn't have a boarding pass, but I dressed up in my snorkelling outfit and went to the airport. I couldn't enter the security area without a boarding pass, but I asked to talk to a catsa manager and was re-directed a couple of times before being told that I would need to call Ottawa and get permission. *sigh* I called the number that they gave me, but only got a machine, so I did't bother leaving a message.

I have found that permission is much more easily granted for this kind of stuff in person. It's a very hard sell over the phone, and practically impossible in something as easy to ignore as email.

I went to a smaller airline that I deal with for my company for shipping, but they couldn't help me, since they were just the cargo area, and their passengers left through the regular airport, but they suggested I try a different small airline who DOES fly out passengers, so off I went!

I found a security guard, and she said … probably not, but we talked to her supervisor and he was all … *shrug* I guess so! :D yay!

Sam, my team member actually had to fly that same week, so she did the task also, so we mushed them together in the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt8t45wGZIw&feature=youtu.be

Date: 2014-08-12 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akemi42.livejournal.com
I nearly peed my pants recording her do this.

Date: 2014-08-12 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tripperfunster.livejournal.com
Was she getting a lot of looks? Nobody seems terribly interested. What did the actual agents say?

Date: 2014-08-12 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akemi42.livejournal.com
It was surprising to me how few odd looks she got...although the person who checks your ID did make her take off her face mask.

At the end, someone asked her if she lost a bet. She explained the hunt and he asked how she was going to prove that she did it. When she explained that I was covertly videoing it, apparently the dude told us that filming is totally permitted because it is a public place!

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