Caribbean Reef Life
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Juvenile Trumpetfish gets a snack.
Such a sneaky fish! Juvenile Trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) like to hide on wire corals and sneak up on their prey.
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Відео

Transparent Lamellaria
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The Transparent Lamellaria (Marsenia perspicua) is a Velutinid snail perfectly camouflaged on it's food source, tunicates. Until it moves you'd never notice it!
Sea Spider with Eggs
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The male Sea Spider (Family: Pycnogonidae) can carry around the eggs of multiple females after fertilizing them. This one seems to be struggling with a lot of them!
Striped Polycera
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The Striped Polycera (Kankelibranchus alhenae), a nudibranch described by Ortea in 2009 and named after his daughter. Filmed inside the wheelhouse of the Mr. Bud Wreck, Roatan, Honduras.
West End Wall Roatan
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Early morning drift dive along West End Wall, Roatan, Honduras.
Hundreds of Baby Octopus Hatching
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The female Common Octopus (Octopus americanus) guards her eggs for over a month and stops feeding. As hundreds of babies hatch, she jets them out into the water. Only around 1% will survive and the female will die soon after. Roatan, Honduras.
Purple-crowned Sea Goddess
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A Purple-crowned Sea Goddess (Felimare kempfi), moving across a piece of dead sponge. Roatan, Honduras.
Striated Frogfish Fishing
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A juvenile Striated Frogfish (Antennarius scaber) goes fishing, catches a goby.
Yellow Jawfish
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The Yellow Jawfish (Opistognathus gilberti) lives in burrows on deeper reefs, often at the base of walls or under overhangs. Only males have the large black spot on the dorsal fin.
Eyespot Costasiella
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An Eyespot Costasiella (Costasiella ocellifera) moving around on his Paddle Blade Alga. You can see his little heart beating (just behind the blue spot). Costasiellas are sap-sucking slugs that feed by kleptoplasy, stealing the chloroplasts from their host algae and keeping them alive and photosynthesizing inside their bodies for energy.
Schooling Permit
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We ran into this school of Permit (Trachinotus falcatus) as we drifted off the wall. Permits are in the jack family and can be found foraging in the shallows or in larger schools like this, in areas of stronger current. Dive site: Texas, Roatan, Honduras.
Odd Roommates
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The Orangespotted Goby (Nes Longus) and the Sand Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus floridanus) live together in a small burrow. The goby stands guard while the shrimp cleans house and prevents cave-ins. He always tries to keep at least one antenna on his buddy while he pushes the sand out.
Juvenile Striated Frogfish
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A tiny juvenile Striated Frogfish (Antennarius scaber) in the sand near the Prince Albert wreck. CocoView Resort, Roatan.
Nude Sole in CocoView Channel
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The Nude Sole (Gymnachirus nudus) is typically solid black when smaller and develops solid bars as it grows. The pointed spines around the eyes distinguishes it from the similar Lined Sole.
Spinyhead Blenny
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A little Spinyhead Blenny (Acanthemblemaria spinosa) in his hole on the bow of the Prince Albert wreck, Coco View, Roatan.
Caribbean Spanish Dancer on Sand
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Caribbean Spanish Dancer on Sand
Mating Indigo Hamlets
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Mating Indigo Hamlets
Filament Blenny
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Filament Blenny
Common Octopus
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Common Octopus
Harlequin Sea Goddess
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Harlequin Sea Goddess
Atlantic Longarm Octopus
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Atlantic Longarm Octopus
Pinstreak Flatworm
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Pinstreak Flatworm
Two Minutes Swimming with an Eagle Ray
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Two Minutes Swimming with an Eagle Ray
Sea Spider with Eggs
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Sea Spider with Eggs
Sponge Crab
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Sponge Crab
Batfish Walking
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Batfish Walking
Turtle Eating Turtle Grass
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Turtle Eating Turtle Grass
Lionfish Feeding
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Lionfish Feeding
Sharptail Eel
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Sharptail Eel
Fringeback Dondice Mating Behavior
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Fringeback Dondice Mating Behavior

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @JodyLSumrall
    @JodyLSumrall 6 днів тому

    Thank you for showing me this graceful creature! I never knew rays could be spotted. I would love to see one in the wild one day.

  • @bolynn9668
    @bolynn9668 9 днів тому

    Perfect video….calmly alongside, then a little closer and it goes on its own way❤❤❤

  • @TawwabKhan-hz6bf
    @TawwabKhan-hz6bf 18 днів тому

    " اڑتی پھروں" !!!

  • @jrosealmendras88
    @jrosealmendras88 20 днів тому

    Amazing

  • @frostbitedragon9
    @frostbitedragon9 21 день тому

    Cute lil guy

  • @NoahsNaturalWorld97
    @NoahsNaturalWorld97 26 днів тому

    I absolutely love your book! I am a divemaster on Utila and have studied your book so much that I've needed to duct tape the front cove due to using it so much. I would love to talk with you some day. Love the videos as well!

  • @blairhunterable
    @blairhunterable 28 днів тому

    Im hearing that through the hull of my boat last two nights. Been driving me mad trying to work out what it was 😂

  • @eyes5877
    @eyes5877 2 місяці тому

    10 yrs

  • @pallen49
    @pallen49 2 місяці тому

    Should be called ' Growling Stomach Fish ' lol

  • @FLSharkdiver
    @FLSharkdiver 2 місяці тому

    Awesome footage... I just got some footage of one in Key Largo 2 weeks ago..... Nice work

  • @gordisbella719
    @gordisbella719 2 місяці тому

    Beautiful I agree 100% However Lionfish now inhabit reefs, wrecks, and other habitat types in the warm marine waters of the greater Atlantic. These Lionfish continue to expand at astonishing speeds and are harming native coral reef ecosystems in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. These reefs are already struggling from the effects of climate change, pollution, disease, overfishing, sedimentation, and other stressors. Really wish people thought first before freeing themselves of unwanted pets . Instead of assuming it’s only your lion-fish, what harm is one going to cause. Yea it’s never just you no matter how special and unique your parents told you you were . Btw Florida pays $5-$6 a pound . dive equipment, tank fills, ownership of a boat. These weigh anywhere from 2 - 3 lbs I walk away with a thousand for 3 hours of work . Or you could wait for the lionfish derby . We should be handing our world over to the kids the same as we received it. It’s only right!!!!!

  • @claudiarizzo571
    @claudiarizzo571 2 місяці тому

    It's the same mating call that humans have. The sound of a message at 1 AM.

  • @herbertescolastiquetraore791
    @herbertescolastiquetraore791 3 місяці тому

    Eh?

  • @watrgrl2
    @watrgrl2 3 місяці тому

    That’s a face and sound only a female bearded toadfish would love. And his mother of course.

  • @camerondreemurr8642
    @camerondreemurr8642 3 місяці тому

    Hey look, it's Squidward.

  • @eva7094
    @eva7094 4 місяці тому

    Wow

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 5 місяців тому

    Diving today, one followed us and circled us for more than 10 minutes. It kept trying to dock on my dive buddy and me. I got to check and upload my video. At one point, I gave up after I had 7 minutes of it but made a few more clips.

  • @hwb-zalpach
    @hwb-zalpach 5 місяців тому

    i want to be reincarnated in this.

  • @wickedslug883
    @wickedslug883 6 місяців тому

    :)

  • @EddieSantoDomingo
    @EddieSantoDomingo 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing this beautiful video.....

  • @drink.more.water.
    @drink.more.water. 6 місяців тому

    this video does not have enough likes, such a beautiful moment and incredible shot

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    Caught the photobomb-was wondering what wandered on by.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    Wow, it was cruising! There is so much wild macro life if you slow down and look.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    Never seen one like that! But, I do have a video of a sharptail eel retracting into its hole.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    Looks like a 'throuple' in the works.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    I've yet to see a batfish. I really want to get some video of them.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    YOU were swimming, it was FLYING! I love these, they are one of my top target species I look for while diving. I have videos of them in Bonaire on my channel and even one looking for food that I saw from the sidewalk while I was on my bike in Key West.

  • @Pete_R63
    @Pete_R63 6 місяців тому

    Excellent! I have to get over to Roatan and dive.

  • @anandjacob7737
    @anandjacob7737 6 місяців тому

    Surreal.

  • @elijahglasser1421
    @elijahglasser1421 8 місяців тому

    Awesome octopus

  • @crowdfundcrew
    @crowdfundcrew 8 місяців тому

    These are great shots. How did you get so up close?

  • @kennydonahue2781
    @kennydonahue2781 8 місяців тому

    Wow! Small stuff. Great capture.

  • @gabetarquinn1909
    @gabetarquinn1909 8 місяців тому

    105 views 3 years ago. Yt decides to throw it on the home page...

  • @zevc3591
    @zevc3591 8 місяців тому

    Beautiful!🙄👍

  • @user-ded2
    @user-ded2 9 місяців тому

    👍👍👍

  • @user-ded2
    @user-ded2 9 місяців тому

    👍

  • @thecantsleepcaravan3118
    @thecantsleepcaravan3118 9 місяців тому

    these fish are invasive menaces

  • @billyb4790
    @billyb4790 9 місяців тому

    It's like he's hunting rocks just to show off and impress you.

  • @burningcell
    @burningcell 9 місяців тому

    The way it keeps contact through the antenna is just so cool!!

  • @Teshake
    @Teshake 10 місяців тому

    Funky dancer!

  • @JacquesTreehorn
    @JacquesTreehorn 11 місяців тому

    I caught one of these once. It's head looks the the soul of a shoe. We wondered what it had been sucking onto. Perhaps we missed something really big.

  • @muqtasidaliawan
    @muqtasidaliawan Рік тому

    SubhanAllah.... It's like Flying in the ocean.!!!!

  • @BIOSHOCKFOXX
    @BIOSHOCKFOXX Рік тому

    How?

  • @joeannsantana5679
    @joeannsantana5679 Рік тому

    *my phone on silent on my nightstand*

  • @moonpleco5083
    @moonpleco5083 Рік тому

    Handsome gentleman toadfish sings his lovesong. " Come, oh come to me, lay your eggs, I will be good daddy ! "

  • @mikefears9020
    @mikefears9020 Рік тому

    Swan with one this afternoon in Puerto Morelos - was quite curious, circling me once

  • @benehermann1525
    @benehermann1525 Рік тому

    Just saw one yesterday, came out of nowhere and circled me ~ 5 times. Never in my life have I seen a creature that was so obviously curious, just amazing!

  • @deathmaskr1200
    @deathmaskr1200 Рік тому

    Question: Despite the fact that octopuses are short-lived, is it possible that they can live longer, that is, if their life can be extended? Even if they avoid mating?

  • @ashmintyrina
    @ashmintyrina Рік тому

    i need a blanket that looks like this

  • @brian6508
    @brian6508 Рік тому

    He is my friend❤