How is the quality of the pictures. I know it says 11mp but I have had cameras with lower mp and they seem to take better pics than my higher quality ones.

It does a solid job with still pics if you understand it's limits. It's a fish eye lens, so it will take wide angle shots, and obviously won't compete with DSLRs, but produces a quality image. It's terrible in low light situations compared to most point and shoots, but that's not really what it's designed for.

It was made to shoot HD video / pics in rough environments, take a beating and let you still extract your files from the camera.

One bit of advice it to let it "acclimate" to the outside temp before you take it out for the day on the water. If you have it open in your truck's AC and seal it in there, it will fog up like a champ inside the housing once the sun hits it (and vice versa in cold weather). I usually wrap it in a small towel (or even a sock....some guys use plastic bags, but I think that's overkill) to keep as much moisture out of the case as possible, let it sit on the deck for a few minutes at the ramp, and then close it up. It's really helped with the fog (this is for the waterproof housing only, as the vented housing obviously lets air temp equalize).

Nothing will bring you down like thinking you got an awesome action sequence on film and then trying to rewatch it through a grey haze....