“Check out our latest short film of Blackwater diving in Anilao. A big thank you to Mike Bartick at Crystal Blue Resort, Anilao, Batangas, Philippines for the Blackwater Diving Logistics!
Shot with the Canon 1DX MKII in a Nauticam Housing.
4K Stock Footage is available.”
From: Newmediasoup
Rough list of animals in the above:
* Plankton generally (opening scene)
* a ctenophore (comb jelly)
* jellyfish
* another comb jelly
* ring of colonial salps
* another jellyfish
* a juvenile anemone
* a salp with a juvenile fish using it as cover
* another salp with a juvenile fish using it as cover
* another jellyfish w a juvenile fish using it as cover (banded driftfish?)
* same jellyfish w a juvenile fish using it as cover
* juvenile stomatopod (mantis shrimp)
* juvenile flounder
* juvenile flounder
* juvenile fish (snake blenny)
* another jellyfish w a juvenile fish using it as cover
* pyrosome w juvenile fish escort
* a ctenophore (comb jelly)
* chain salp colony
* same chain salp colony showing baby octopuses along for the ride
* juvenile octopus
* Venus girdle (a comb jelly)
* larval winged mollusc
* juvenile fish (goatfish?)
* juvenile pipefish
* salp with juv. polychaete worm (bristleworm?)
* salp chain colony
* larval shrimp
* argonaut aka paper nautilus (female, a pelagic octopus)
* juv. squid (reef?)
* jellyfish with larval fish (banded driftfishes?)
* same
* Agalma sp. (a siphonophore)
* winged mollusc?
* ctenophore/comb jelly (Bolinopsis infundibulum?)
* same
* crab larva (called a megalops) wrestling with a jelly
* juv. squid (reef?) – having just inked
* pelagic salp swimming through the squid ink
* larval/juvenile octopus
* juvenile pufferfish
* Venus girdle (a comb jelly)
* banded driftfish with a scrawled filefish feeding on its host jellyfish
* Plankton generally (closing scene)
