The ragged tooth (Carcharias taurus) aka sand tiger sharks are frequently encountered inhabitants on the reefs of Aliwal Shoal, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans pays the area a visit in this week’s episode, and the cameraman finds that despite appearances, the sharks are docile and happy to share the water with him.
Sea Legacy has posted a video entitled “The Thin Blue Line” that features the photography and commentary of photographers Paul Nicklen, David Doubilet, Brian Skerry and Cristina Mittermeier.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.