Recent Underwater Video Highlights

About 2 weeks ago, my Olympus TG6 croaked. The camera is now with its ancestors (the TG5, and the TG4 and so on) and embarked on the eternal nap. It is no more. While this is sad and unfortunate, it gives me the opportunity to step back and look what I have produced with this camera. The results are, without false modesty, quite spectacular, and this is not mainly due to my videographic skills but due to the fact that I live and dive in one of the prime muck diving locations of the planet. Let’s take a look at some of the videos I shot just in the last two months:

Being hairy underwater does not serve the purpose to keep you warm, but to camouflage you by making you look like a ball of algae. I put footage of several such hairy, algae-looking critters together in this video:

Here my friend Laura found a couple of mating pleurobranch sea slugs, though she didn’t even realize what she was looking at. I did, and spent most of that dive filming this reproductive encounter between two rare mollusks:

After the TG6 ceased to be, I focused on using my GoPro Hero7 more, which fortunately still works. The whole process of approaching, framing, lighting and following a moving subject is quite different with a wide-angle camera. Here I caught a marine turtle and a sea snake, and managed to follow them around for quite some time, observing and filming their foraging behaviors: