Video: Lionfish footage on Wild Oceans
The latest video on Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage of a lionfish (Pterois volitans) filmed by Stewart Whitehead in Thailand’s Sogod Bay.
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Video: Diver surrounded by hammerhead sharks
This week, Wild Oceans features footage shot in Mozambique. The Earth Touch cameraman keeps the camera rolling when he finds himself in a large school of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini).
Video: Turtle chases divers
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage shot on Kwazulu Natal’s Aliwal Shoal, South Africa. Amongst the animals featured in the film are a pair of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) embroiled in a territorial dispute.
Earth Touch: Shark Week encounters
Earth Touch has posted their “Top 10 Extraordinary Shark Encounters for Shark Week”. It features close encounters and behaviors captured by the Earth Touch cameramen, from swarms of hammerhead to rare sightings and camera head butts.
Wild Oceans: Sogod Bay in 4K
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans episode comes from Sogod Bay in the Philippines and has been uploaded to YouTube in 4K resolution. It features lionfish, nudibranchs, anemone shrimps anemonefish and a mystery fish! Earth Touch are asking that if anyone can identify it, to add a comment below the video on YouTube.
Video: Sogod Bay in 4K
This weeks Earth Touch Wild Oceans episode is from Sogod Bay, southern Philippines. Filmed in 4K, cameraman Stewart Whitfield shows the beauty of this dive and the incredible quality of the reef. Look out for damselfish, masked porcupinefish, a magnificently camouflaged spiny devilfish and soft corals.
Video: Corals, clear waters and cruising fish
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage from Andiamo in Indonesia shot by Wetpixel Moderator Mike Veitch. It features large schools of fish, from hundreds of yellow-spotted fusiliers (Caesio teres) to cruising batfish and a school of convict blennies (Pholidichthys leucotaenia) hovering close to the reef. Beautifully coloured soft corals, sponges and amazing sea fans decorate the sea floor.
Video: Circling sharks, colourful nudibranchs and a cruising turtle
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel offers a guided tour to diving at The Cathedral, Aliwal Shoal, off KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The strong surge and swell proves a challenge for both the animals inhabiting the shoal and the cameraman.
Video: Diving Manta Alley by Earth Touch
Earth Touch has posted a video from Indonesia’s Manta Alley on its Wild Oceans Channel. Wetpixel Moderator Mike Veitch filmed the mantas feeding in the plankton rich water and also spotted a banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) and a curious black tip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).
Video: Lionfish stalks and kills prey
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage of red lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunting and capturing prey fish in the shallow waters of a tidal lagoon in Mozambique.