Memories of last October have changed Notre Dame’s video recording practices. Due to a collapsing hydraulic lift former Notre Dame student Declan Sullivan was killed while filming the football team’s practice. Since then talks about alternatives of creating footage of practice sessions have been amongst the top priorities. Finally the school has decided to end the use of hydraulic lifts and to use remote-controlled cameras instead. The Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, was thankful that the decision was made and that Sullivan’s death would be remembered forever in the future. “I said in the days after Declan’s death that we would do everything in our power to make changes to ensure that such an accident does not happen again — here or elsewhere,” Jenkins explained in a statement.
Instead of a human being filming four cameras on 50-foot poles at the practice fields are going to record every move and transmit them using fiber optics. XOS Digital created and implemented the design of the remote video system in the wake of Sullivan’s death. From now on video footage will be sent across the street to the football offices in the Guglielmino Athletics Complex.
