"
Reef Life of the
Andaman" is a documentary of the marine life of
Thailand and
Burma (
Myanmar). It is available on
DVD at
http://www.bubblevision.com/marine-life-DVD
.htm
Scuba diving more than
1000 times from the coral reefs and underwater pinnacles of Thailand's
Similan Islands,
Phuket,
Phi Phi Island and Hin Daeng, to Myanmar's
Mergui Archipelago and Burma
Banks, I encountered everything from manta rays to seahorses, whale sharks to shipwrecks. The 116-minute film features descriptions of
213 different marine species including more than
100 tropical fish, along with sharks, rays, moray eels, crabs, lobsters, shrimps, sea slugs, cuttlefish, squid, octopus, turtles, sea snakes, starfish, sea cucumbers, corals, worms etc
..
This marine biology documentary provides an overview of
Indian Ocean aquatic life.
Marine life & underwater subjects featured in the film:
0:00:00 -
Introduction
0:01:42 -
Underwater caves
0:02:18 - Corals and anemones
ELASMOBRANCHS - SHARKS
0:03:37 -
Carpet sharks (zebra sharks / leopard sharks and nurse sharks)
0:06:45 -
Whale sharks
0:11:26 -
Requiem sharks (grey reef sharks, silvertip sharks, whitetip reef sharks)
RAYS
0:13:44 - Stingrays
0:17:05 -
Eagle rays & devil rays / mobulas
0:18:48 -
Manta rays
REEF FISHES
0:21:24 -
Moray eels
0:25:50 - Seahorse
0:27:12 - Cornetfish & trumpetfish
0:28:50 - Batfish (spadefish)
0:30:09 -
Angelfish
0:31:34 - Butterflyfish
0:32:41 - Bannerfish
0:33:30 -
Moorish idol
0:33:56 - Surgeonfish (tang) & unicornfish
0:34:42 - Bigeye
0:35:10 -
Emperor Snapper
0:35:26 -
Sweetlips
0:36:05 -
Grouper (rockcod)
0:38:24 -
Humphead wrasse
0:38:52 -
Green humphead parrotfish
0:39:38 -
Barracuda
0:40:37 - Trevally (jacks)
0:41:21 - Pufferfish
0:42:32 - Boxfish
0:44:28 - Porcupinefish
0:46:10 -
Scrawled filefish
0:46:33 - Triggerfish
CRUSTACEANS
0:48:23 -
Spiny lobster
0:49:35 - Shrimps
0:50:39 - Red-legged swimming crab
MOLLUSCS - GASTROPODS
0:51:13 - Cowries
0:52:46 - Sea slugs / nudibranchs
BIVALVES
0:54:55 -
Fluted giant clam
0:55:38 -
Tuna Wreck - Similan Islands
0:56:00 -
Schooling fish - Cardinalfish
0:56:56 - Hardyhead silversides
0:57:15 - Fusilier
0:57:45 -
African pompano
0:57:49 -
Striped eel catfish
0:58:02 -
Schooling snapper
0:59:08 - Schooling barracuda
1:00:30 -
Dogtooth tuna
1:00:45 -
Bigeye trevally
HIDING
1:01:15 - Pastel Tilefish
1:01:49 - Stingrays in sand
1:02:43 -
Octopus ink
CAMOUFLAGE - MIMICRY
1:03:03 - Straightstick pipefish
1:03:28 -
Ornate ghost pipefish
1:04:19 -
Giant frogfish
1:05:14 - Scorpionfish
1:06:42 - Stonefish
1:07:17 -
King Cruiser shipwreck
VENOMOUS SPINES
1:07:29 - Lionfish
1:09:25 -
Crown-of-thorns starfish
1:10:00 -
Sea urchin
SYMBIOSIS
1:10:26 - Sea urchin cardinalfish
1:10:49 - Anemonefish / Clownfish /
Sea anemones
1:13:53 -
Porcelain anemone crab
1:14:39 -
Tube anemone
1:15:13 -
Rhizostome jellyfish
1:16:09 - Fishes feeding
1:16:16 -
Streaked spinefoot
1:16:31 - Parrotfish
1:17:02 - Goatfish
1:17:10 -
Bluefin trevally
1:17:29 -
Smalltooth emperor
1:17:51 - Fringelip mullet
REPTILES
1:20:26 -
Banded sea krait (sea snake)
1:21:46 -
Pacific Hawksbill turtle
1:23:26 -
Green turtle
SHRIMPS
1:25:05 -
Harlequin shrimp
1:26:09 -
Peacock mantis shrimp
CLEANING
1:27:08 -
Skunk cleaner shrimp
1:27:57 -
Cleaner wrasse
1:29:07 -
Rock cleaner shrimp
1:29:27 -
False cleanerfish
1:30:07 - Remora / live sharksucker
1:31:38 - Cobia
1:32:47 -
Rainbow runner
POLYCHAETE WORMS
1:38:18 -
Feather duster worm
1:33:43 -
Hard tube coco worm
1:33:53 -
Christmas tree worm
1:34:39 -
Sea cucumber
SEX
1:36:54 -
Broadcast spawning
1:37:42 -
Oyster
1:38:19 -
Pharaoh cuttlefish mating
1:40:15 -
Bigfin reef squid
1:40:36 - Day octopus fighting
1:43:25 -
Rough-toothed dolphin
1:43:48 -
Night diving
1:49:38 -
Crabs at night
1:52:56 -
Hermit crab
1:54:22 -
Basket stars
I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at:
http://www.bubblevision.com
I post updates about my videos, and interesting underwater videos from other filmmakers here:
http://www.facebook.com/bubblevision
http://www.twitter.com/nicholashope
MUSIC CREDITS:
Prickly
Shark,
Black Corals,
Jewel Squid by
Erik Verkoyen
Freefall Into The Blue, Buoyancy,
Tai Long Wan, Andaman
Resonance,
Hidden Depths, Similan
Sunrise,
The Cool Of
The Forest by
Mark Ellison
Blood Wine by
Condor e (
Velvet Night Album)
Dream And
You Will Fly by Menno Hoomans (http://twitter.com/mhoomans)
Just Walk Away by
Adam Fielding (http://adamfielding.com)
Deep Blue, Starbeam by Toao (SOILSOUND
Music Publishing LLC) (http://soilsound.com)
Space Frigate by
Smashed Toy (http://soundclick.com/smashedtoy)
Deliberate Thought,
Modern Vibes by
Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)
Pattern Errors by Coded
Bird's Song (
Edit) by Absorb
Fish (http://soundcloud.com/absorb-fish)
Thanks to Santana Diving of Phuket (http://www.santanaphuket.com), to Rob Royle for a few of the clips, to Elfi and Uli Erfort and
Daniel Bruehwiler for help with the
German translation, and to
Frank Nelissen for the
Dutch subtitles.
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 1866825