Filmed while diving with Deep Blue Divers in Laamu / Maldives on a Canon C200 with Canon 18-55 IS STM / Sigma 18-35 1.8 and the Nauticam Wide Angle Conversion Port WACP.
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Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 08 – 2015 | Things that go bump in the night Part 1
Have you ever done a UV night dive? In part one of our series, “Things That Go Bump in the Night”, you can see bizarre and unexpected things glowing, and no one knows yet why they do it but the one thing we do know is it is amazing to watch.
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 20/2014
It’s an underwater party and all your favorite critters of the Lembeh Strait are there – anemone fish, blue-ringed octopus, ornate ghost pipefish with eggs (yes, children are welcome at this party!), various frogfishes and a graceful free-swimming ribbon eel. Also keep your eyes peeled for a very special, seldom seen little goby, the Priolepis vexilla, whose blue-and-red striped face, dotty body and spiky dorsal fin will surely charm you. Sit back and enjoy!
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 19/2014
We have been unusually fortunate these past few weeks in Lembeh with many sightings of mating blue rings, a beautiful red weedy rhinopias, and baby flamboyant cuttlefishes hatching, all of which are beautifully captured in this week’s episode. As an extra cute factor bonus, there’s also footage of a baby clown frogfish waving its lure around as a tiny sponge isopod flirts with death! Enjoy the Critters of the Lembeh Strait.
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | The Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)
Check out why the Coconut octopus is one of our favorite cephalopods in the Lembeh Strait.
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 18/2014
Have you ever seen a frogfish do the splits? Harlequin shrimps, ghost pipefish and an extremely cute baby coconut octopus in a shell round out this latest, greatest Critters of the Lembeh Strait episode!
The Cannibal nudibranch – Gymnodoris vs. Hypselodoris
Watch this comic-like movie of the Gymnodoris rubropapulosa trying to eat a Hypselodoris whitei.
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 17/2014
The last weeks were pretty “HAIRY” – watch our latest episode to find out what else happened in the Strait.
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 16/2014
Some of the highlights of the latest episode of “Critters of the Lembeh Strait” include hairy frogfish, some of them come in pairs, another mototi octopus and the tiny Doto ussi Ortea (nudibranch). Also keep your eyes open for the scary teeth of a snake eel. Enjoy!
Critters of the Lembeh Strait | Episode 15/2014
Finally, after almost 2 years of diving the Lembeh Strait and not seeing this critter with my own eyes, I got to see it and got some footage: THE POISON OCELLATE OCTOPUS (Octopus mototi). As if that wasn’t enough, a day later an always welcome little fella showed up: THE HAIRY OCTOPUS (Octopus sp.). Of course there are lots more critters to see in the latest episode, check it out!