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.
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.
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 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.
A new film, commissioned by retailer Klättermusen, documents a team’s exploration of the Dolinsjö Cave in Sweden. Called “Underground Movement: Cave Diving in Jämtland”, it documents the team exploring 1.7 km of new cave in what can at best be described as “challenging” conditions.
The recent BBC series, “Shark” features an amazing sequence of mobula rays (Mobula munkiana) jumping and breaching. Filmed in the Gulf of California, Mexico, the rays jump some 6ft (2m) into the air and then seem to land awkwardly, creating a big splash.
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.
Extreme surfer and photographer Chris Burkard’s imagery is featured on 500ISO. He recently gave a talk at TED where he explains his “personal crusade against the mundane”. (Image by Chris Burkard)
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.
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.