"Mucky
Secrets" is a documentary about the marine life of the Lembeh Strait at the heart of the
Coral Triangle off north Sulawesi in
Indonesia.
The DVD is available at
http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Lembeh/Mucky-Secrets
.htm.
The Lembeh Strait is a popular scuba diving destination, famed for its excellent "muck diving". A huge diversity of exotic marine creatures can be found on the mucky seabed, including everything from tropical fish to benthic sharks to nudibranchs.
Critters compete for survival with an armoury including camouflage, mimicry, toxicity, and dazzling coloration.
"Mucky Secrets" is an excellent resource for scuba divers, aquarists, and marine biology students. The documentary features underwater macro footage from many of Lembeh's famous dive sites including Critter Hunt,
Police Pier,
Tanjung Kusu-Kusu, Nudi Falls, Aer Perang, Jahir, Makawide, Nudi
Retreat, Retak
Larry, TK (
Teluk Kembahu), Hairball and Aw Shucks.
There are subtitles/CC tracks for the narration and for the scientific and common names of the marine species, and dive site names.
Watch the 4-minute prologue video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcgT_eZuN5o
Marine life featured:
0:00:00
Introduction
0:05:11 Corals
0:05:57 Tunicates - sea squirts - ascidians
0:06:37
Symbiosis - sea anemones - anemonefish (clownfish)
CRUSTACEANS
0:07:29 Commensal shrimps (partner shrimps)
0:09:12
Emperor shrimp
0:11:07
Mantis shrimps
0:12:34
Squat lobsters
0:13:27
Hermit crabs
0:14:26
True crabs
0:15:55
Sea Urchins
ELASMOBRANCHS
0:17:11
Blue spotted stingrays
0:18:15
Brownbanded bamboo shark
EELS
0:18:59
Snake eels
0:20:27
Moray eels
0:21:34
Ribbon eels
REEF FISHES
0:22:33 Cardinalfishes
0:24:43 Trumpetfish
0:25:58 Seahorses
0:27:06
Pygmy seahorse
0:28:30 Pipefishes
0:30:38
Ghost pipefishes
0:33:22 Shrimpfishes - razorfishes
0:33:58 Seamoths - short dragonfish
0:35:03
Oriental flying gurnard
0:35:58 Blennies
0:36:49 Gobies
0:37:46 Sea pen
0:38:17 Dragonets
0:40:49 Mandarinfish
0:42:08 Frogfishes
0:46:39
Juvenile fishes
0:47:12 Spotted parrotfish
0:48:20
Sweetlips
0:49:05 Yellowblotch razorfish
0:49:37 Filefishes
0:50:24 Boxfishes - cowfishes
0:50:57 Puffers (pufferfish)
0:52:21 Sharpnose puffers (tobies)
0:52:50 Porcupinefishes
0:53:45
Panther grouper
0:54:10
Whitemargin stargazer
0:54:54
Leopard flounder
0:55:25 Flatheads
0:56:36 Scorpionfishes
0:57:27
Ambon Scorpionfish
0:58:04 Rhinopias
0:59:50 Lionfishes
1:02:29
Demon stinger (spiny devilfish, bearded ghoul)
1:03:17 Fireworm
1:03:45 Waspfishes
MOLLUSCS
CEPHALOPODS
1:05:48 Cuttlefishes
1:08:38 Octopuses
1:11:34
Flame scallop
GASTROPODS
1:12:03
Sea snails
1:14:37 Sea slugs - nudibranchs
1:21:49 Sea slugs feeding
1:23:57 Nudibranchs mating
1:
26:11 Sap-sucking slug
1:26:59 Headshield slugs
1:27:49 Sea hares
1:30:21 Polyclad flatworm
1:31:18
End credits
I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at:
http://www.bubblevision.com
I post updates about my videos here:
http://www.facebook.com/bubblevision
http://google.com/+bubblevision
http://www.twitter.com/nicholashope
http://bubblevision.tumblr.com
MUSIC CREDITS:
Arrival of the
Broken Kings by Klangachse (http://klangachse.de)
The Unknown by Jaycieh (http://soundcloud.com/jaycieh)
All the following tracks are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Covert Affair, Tenebrous
Brothers Carnival -
Snake Lady,
Hitman, Sneak 'n Get
Caught,
Water Prelude,
The Other Side of the
Door,
Sneaky Adventure,
Umbrella Pants,
Comfortable Mystery, Babylon, Mysterioso March, Sneaky
Snitch,
Hidden Agenda, Lightless
Dawn, Tenebrous Brothers Carnival -
Mermaid, Scheming
Weasel (slower version),
Brittle Rille,
Perspectives by
Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)
Mystery 2, Joy 2 by
Tom Cusack (Leafy
Lane Productions)(http://freemusicforvideos.com)
Divider, Vendaface by
Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com)
Mountain Breeze (pad),
Biosphere by
Purple Planet (http://purple-planet.com)
Second Thoughts by
James Kirsch a.k.a. generalfuzz (http://generalfuzz.net, http://soundcloud.com/generalfuzz)
Blade Walker by Lahniz (http://soundcloud.com/lahniz)
Untitled Ambient Tune by TekMerc (http://soundcloud.com/tekmerc)
Melody of the
Lost Ark by Ojini
Project (http://soundcloud.com/ojiniproject)
Thanks to:
- Two
Fish Divers (http://twofishdivers.com) who I stayed and dived with on Lembeh
Island, and especially to their keen-eyed dive guides for their critter spotting
- Phiangpis Phanchana for diving and production assistance
-
Gerry Allen and
Teresa Zubi (http://starfish.ch) for assistance with marine species identification
-
Bill Rudman for creating the now-idle sea slug forum (http://seaslugforum.net), still an invaluable source of knowledge.
The video was shot by
Nick Hope with a Sony HVR-Z1P
HDV camera in a
Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing with Light & Motion
Elite lights, a flat port, and a
Century +
3.5 diopter.
- published: 01 Sep 2014
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