Tin Can Bay (Cooloola) Marine Biodiversity Assessment, 4k underwater footage & species shot list

We recently completed the first underwater marine biodiversity assessment for Tin Can Bay (Cooloola, Queensland, Australia). With great support from the local boating community, Cooloola Coastcare, and the Gympie Regional Council, we knocked over the 40 dives required and recorded around 230 species.
Tin Can Bay is an estuary system at the bottom of the bay created by Fraser Island-super popular with fisherfolk, it is a high use and high impact patch of water.
This film shows some of the highs and lows.
-Josh
Species shot list is on our website: undersea.link/2vtialb

[@unlessyougo]

Thank you so much for this! It's incredibly valuable to me when I teach kids about environments and I can show videos like this. Amazing species, 4K, great music. Kids are really motivated to learn more about different species after seeing something like this. Well done!

[@UnderseaProductions]

Thanks icepigeon. The kids are a great starting point, let's hope they show their parents too.

[@DivingWithMatt]

Amazing footage!

[@UnderseaProductions]

Cheers!

[@tingoorensis]

It amazes me how you find so much diversity in these populated inshore areas. And the water in the background looks murky whilst the subject in the foreground looks so clear.

[@joshjensen6842]

Thanks tingoorensis. In a healthy system, there should barely be a square meter on bottom without something living there.The trick is getting super close to the subjects - that turns the funk in the water into distinct particles rather than soupy murk.

[@tingoorensis]

Thanks right back to you! Keep up the great work Josh, whatever you decide that should be!

[@TuTAH_1]

Very beautyful video, thanks for making it!

[@Actual.1]

This is really cool and useful to get an idea of what the bottom of some of the deeper parts of the channel look like
Thanks for sharing

[@UnderseaProductions]

Thanks Nick, the coffee rock structure is definitely the most diverse. There is a whole lot of nothing much in between.

[@Actual.1]

@@UnderseaProductions yeah ay I have free dived on some of the shallower stuff near t-bar looking for fish and it’s just rock with a little growth on it but none of it looks as lively as that

[@UnderseaProductions]

@@Actual.1 The shallow rocks are probably too exposed to wave action to house much life - coffee rock is very brittle and not much sticks to it other than sponges and a few soft corals. Hard corals need something sturdier.

[@bkjeong4302]

That shot of the grouper eating the cuttlefish....any plans too release the full video of that?

[@UnderseaProductions]

That was pretty much all I got Bk, the edit is reversed - I found the grouper with the cuttlefish stuck in its mouth, he spat it out to get a better grab at it which was the first shot you saw and why the cuttlefish was dead when the grouper grabbed it.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@UnderseaProductions Oh.

[@zachwelman9202]

What camera did you use to film this?
P.s. great job!

[@UnderseaProductions]

Thanks! This was filmed with the Sony Z100.