Wonders of UV Diving - A Look at Fluorescence Underwater

Our thanks to Barry and Ruth Guimbellot for sharing this footage.
While enjoying some liveaboard diving in the British Virgin Islands this May, Barry and Ruth decided to check out the reef after dinner with the new UK Aqualite UV heads.
"Wow, the experience was immediately noticeable and incredible.
The 395 nm lights do not require a mask or camera filter, so we could see corals fluorescing in every direction and from quite a distance away", Barry described the experience.
He continued, "It was so much fun to explore and to see what would fluoresce and what would not. We saw several different hard corals, encrusting sponges, a Caribbean spiny lobster and 3/16” diameter bright red crab that was standing on a fluorescing hard coral.
For fun, we would occasionally turn on our Aqualite with the visible LED head to see what the coral really looked like."
Learn more about UV at www.uwkinetics....
Music : "Modulation of the Spirit" by Little Glass Men

[@hannah8502]

Hi, which aqualite model is being used to film?

[@UnderwaterKineticsPR]

This is the Aqualite-S UV-395

[@MrUncleTeck]

Hi, would like to know if using an UV light, do i still need yellow filters? will yellow filters affect much when using UV light instead of blue light? Tq

[@phyvo]

Shouldn't need any filters for a UV light, the advantage of UV is that you cannot see the light from the light source so no filter is necessary. All you see will be the light the sea life is emitting as it absorbs energy from UV light.