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Deep Blue Divers | 2019 May Highlights

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This video, all filmed in May 2019, features footage of some of the coolest, weirdest, and most graceful marine creatures ever. Super-cute nudibranchs, eagle rays, a pipehorse with camouflaged branches on its face and a surprise visitor on the Six Senses Laamu house reef in the Maldives (filmed with a macro lens) – be sure to watch until the end to find out who it was! Music by Nacho Sotomayor – www.nachosotomayor.com #Maldives #underwatervideography #outoftheordinary #scubadiving

Filmed on a Canon C200 in a Nauticam housing with Canon 100mm macro, Sigma 50mm 1.4, Sigma 18-35 & Nauticam WACP. Super-macro scenes filmed with additional Nauticam SMC-2 or INON UCL 67 M67.

Stars of the show include:

Spotted shrimp, Phycocaris sp.?

Green Hairy Shrimps (Phycocaris simulans),

Shaun the sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae),

Manta Rays (Mobula alfredi),

Guitarfish (Rynchobatus Djiddensis),

Mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda)

and many more.

Critters of the Lembeh Strait | SEA WARS – The Flamboyant Cuttlefish Strikes Back (Part II)

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In part I of this series, we saw a newly hatched flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) getting snatched up by a small mantis shrimp, a surprising choice of meals since they are widely (but perhaps wrongly) believed to be toxic. In this latest episode II, we see a reversal of roles when an adult flamboyant cuttlefish snatches a mantis shrimp to feed on, so it’s not always predictable who is the hunter and who is the prey between these 2 species! The slow-motion part of this underwater video shows in amazing detail how the flamboyant carefully extends its two feeding arms, then at lightning speed grabs its prey and grips the mantis with its suckers, waiting until the mantis tires before consuming her crispy crustacean meal.