Nature - Reef Life of the Andaman
Description
Reef Life of the Andaman is a documentary of the marine life of Thailand and Burma (Myanmar).
Scuba diving more than 1000 times from the coral reefs and underwater pinnacles of Thailands Similan Islands, Phuket, Phi Phi Island and Hin Daeng, to Myanmars Mergui Archipelago and Burma Banks, I encountered everything from manta rays to seahorses, whale sharks to shipwrecks. The 116-minute film features descriptions of 213 different marine species including more than 100 tropical fish, along with sharks, rays, moray eels, crabs, lobsters, shrimps, sea slugs, cuttlefish, squid, octopus, turtles, sea snakes, starfish, sea cucumbers, corals, worms etc..
This marine biology documentary provides an overview of Indian Ocean aquatic life.
Marine life & underwater subjects featured in the film:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:42 - Underwater caves
0:02:18 - Corals and anemones
ELASMOBRANCHS - SHARKS
0:03:37 - Carpet sharks (zebra sharks / leopard sharks and nurse sharks)
0:06:45 - Whale sharks
0:11:26 - Requiem sharks (grey reef sharks, silvertip sharks, whitetip reef sharks)
RAYS
0:13:44 - Stingrays
0:17:05 - Eagle rays & devil rays / mobulas
0:18:48 - Manta rays
REEF FISHES
0:21:24 - Moray eels
0:25:50 - Seahorse
0:27:12 - Cornetfish & trumpetfish
0:28:50 - Batfish (spadefish)
0:30:09 - Angelfish
0:31:34 - Butterflyfish
0:32:41 - Bannerfish
0:33:30 - Moorish idol
0:33:56 - Surgeonfish (tang) & unicornfish
0:34:42 - Bigeye
0:35:10 - Emperor Snapper
0:35:26 - Sweetlips
0:36:05 - Grouper (rockcod)
0:38:24 - Humphead wrasse
0:38:52 - Green humphead parrotfish
0:39:38 - Barracuda
0:40:37 - Trevally (jacks)
0:41:21 - Pufferfish
0:42:32 - Boxfish
0:44:28 - Porcupinefish
0:46:10 - Scrawled filefish
0:46:33 - Triggerfish
CRUSTACEANS
0:48:23 - Spiny lobster
0:49:35 - Shrimps
0:50:39 - Red-legged swimming crab
MOLLUSCS - GASTROPODS
0:51:13 - Cowries
0:52:46 - Sea slugs / nudibranchs
BIVALVES
0:54:55 - Fluted giant clam
0:55:38 - Tuna Wreck - Similan Islands
0:56:00 - Schooling fish - Cardinalfish
0:56:56 - Hardyhead silversides
0:57:15 - Fusilier
0:57:45 - African pompano
0:57:49 - Striped eel catfish
0:58:02 - Schooling snapper
0:59:08 - Schooling barracuda
1:00:30 - Dogtooth tuna
1:00:45 - Bigeye trevally
HIDING
1:01:15 - Pastel Tilefish
1:01:49 - Stingrays in sand
1:02:43 - Octopus ink
CAMOUFLAGE - MIMICRY
1:03:03 - Straightstick pipefish
1:03:28 - Ornate ghost pipefish
1:04:19 - Giant frogfish
1:05:14 - Scorpionfish
1:06:42 - Stonefish
1:07:17 - King Cruiser shipwreck
VENOMOUS SPINES
1:07:29 - Lionfish
1:09:25 - Crown-of-thorns starfish
1:10:00 - Sea urchin
SYMBIOSIS
1:10:26 - Sea urchin cardinalfish
1:10:49 - Anemonefish / Clownfish / Sea anemones
1:13:53 - Porcelain anemone crab
1:14:39 - Tube anemone
1:15:13 - Rhizostome jellyfish
1:16:09 - Fishes feeding
1:16:16 - Streaked spinefoot
1:16:31 - Parrotfish
1:17:02 - Goatfish
1:17:10 - Bluefin trevally
1:17:29 - Smalltooth emperor
1:17:51 - Fringelip mullet
REPTILES
1:20:26 - Banded sea krait (sea snake)
1:21:46 - Pacific Hawksbill turtle
1:23:26 - Green turtle
SHRIMPS
1:25:05 - Harlequin shrimp
1:26:09 - Peacock mantis shrimp
CLEANING
1:27:08 - Skunk cleaner shrimp
1:27:57 - Cleaner wrasse
1:29:07 - Rock cleaner shrimp
1:29:27 - False cleanerfish
1:30:07 - Remora / live sharksucker
1:31:38 - Cobia
1:32:47 - Rainbow runner
POLYCHAETE WORMS
1:38:18 - Feather duster worm
1:33:43 - Hard tube coco worm
1:33:53 - Christmas tree worm
1:34:39 - Sea cucumber
SEX
1:36:54 - Broadcast spawning
1:37:42 - Oyster
1:38:19 - Pharaoh cuttlefish mating
1:40:15 - Bigfin reef squid
1:40:36 - Day octopus fighting
1:43:25 - Rough-toothed dolphin
1:43:48 - Night diving
1:49:38 - Crabs at night
1:52:56 - Hermit crab
1:54:22 - Basket stars