Andy Casagrande featured on the RED Collective
Wetpixel member Sean Ruggeri and the team from the RED Collective have produced a short film about underwater filmmaker Andy Casagrande and his addiction to filming sharks.
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Video: Wild Oceans from the Phi Phi Islands
The latest edition of Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel was shot in the Phi Phi Islands Marine Reserve in the Andaman Sea, Thailand. It features footage of a pair of mating leopard sharks and a cuttlefish laying her eggs. There’s also a rare glimpse of a tiger-tail seahorse and some bizarre pufferfish behaviour.
Video: Dolphin Army by Simon Buxton
Wetpixel member Simon Buxton has posted some amazing footage of a huge pod of common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) as it makes it’s way up the East African coast each year in the search of sardines. He invites us to “follow them for a short part of this journey to see what they find.”
Video: Howard Hall’s Baskers
Filmmaker Howard Hall has posted a short film about his recent Scottish trip in search of basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) entitled “Baskers”. The footage was shot in the Isle of Mull.
Video: The Edge by Steer Films
Steer Films has published a short film entitled “The Edge” on Vimeo profiling Wetpixel members Joe Romeiro and Bill Fisher. It describes their fascination with sharks and how they teamed up to form 333 Productions and produce films that help aid in the conservation of sharks and the marine environment.
Video: Hammerhead fin cam by Andy Casagrande
Wetpixel member and filmmaker Andy Casagrande has had his shark can footage featured on GoPro’s channel. Andy temporarily attached a HERO camera to a hammerhead’s (Sphyrna mokarran) dorsal fin.
Video: Phi-Phi Marine Reserve in 4K
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features 4K footage from the Phi-Phi National Marine Reserve, Andaman Sea, Thailand. The episode features scribbled filefish feeding on animals that are living within the tentacles of a large jellyfish, large schools of bigeye snappers and an interesting symbiotic relationship between a wrasse and a blackspotted pufferfish.
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.
Video: Tiger shark mouths hydrophone
The team at the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, based at the University of Miami, have been placing hydrophones around Tiger Beach, Grand Bahama. These allow them to track tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), once these have had a transmitter implanted within their abdomens. The video shows a shark gently investigating a hydrophone
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.