Reef Life of the Andaman (full marine biology documentary)
14,534,449
Published 2012-10-31
Scuba diving more than 1000 times from the coral reefs and underwater pinnacles of Thailand's Similan Islands, Phuket, Phi Phi Island and Hin Daeng, to Myanmar's 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
1:33:38 - 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
MUSIC CREDITS:
Prickly Shark, Black Corals, Jewel Squid by Erik Verkoyen
Freefall Into The Blue, Buoyancy, Tai Long Wan, Andaman Resonance, Hidden Depths, Similan Sunrise, The Cool Of The Forest by Mark Ellison
Blood Wine by Condor e (Velvet Night Album)
Dream And You Will Fly by Menno Hoomans (twitter.com/mhoomans - Remastered version: www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=29884…)
Just Walk Away by Adam Fielding (adamfielding.com/)
Deep Blue, Starbeam by Toao (SOILSOUND Music Publishing LLC) (soilsound.com/)
Space Frigate by Smashed Toy (soundclick.com/smashedtoy)
Deliberate Thought, Modern Vibes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com/)
Pattern Errors by Coded
Bird's Song (Edit) by Absorb Fish (soundcloud.com/absorb-fish)
Thanks to Santana Diving of Phuket (www.santanaphuket.com/), to Rob Royle for a few of the clips, to Elfi and Uli Erfort and Daniel Bruehwiler for help with the German translation, and to Frank Nelissen for the Dutch subtitles.
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All Comments (21)
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The videographers are the unsung heroes of every documentary. Their part is the most dangerous. Thank you Jacque Cousteau for "WORLD WITHOUT A SUN" in the early 1970's.
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Eye Candy for the Soul... Thank you Nick & all the beautiful gang!
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my baby son and i love watching this documentary together. i always wanted to be a marine biologist as a child, and watching this with my own little baby makes me happy to pass down my love of nature and animals unto him <3 thank you for the beautiful footage and experiences you have shared with us. truly special.
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I love how you keep the scene on the fish for more than a second, sometimes even 10 seconds, so we can start to get a feel for the creature and not just a super fast glance.
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When you bring to viewers such beauty, those who complain about the soft and gentle music need to realize one man's trash is another man's treasure. This video is the most beautiful I have ever seen.
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Outstanding old-school documentary. No dramatizations, no faking, no humans doing dumb stuff, no action-movie soundtrack. Just the animals being shown in their habitat, a narrator and a soothing background music... Awesome.
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I'm a marine biologist for U.S. coast guard and I have to say you do an excellent job with covering the marine diversity and generalized information about them. Awesome work!
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This is my boyfriends channel, but I have literally watched this video every weekday for at least a month, while working from home sometimes more than once a day...and I am still not bored of it!!!
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Bubble Vision documentaries are some of my absolute favorite nature documentaries. As someone with severe anxiety, it's very calming to watch and listen to them, and I always end up learning a lot.
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I have a degree in Marine Biology but you do not need that to pick this out as an outstanding documentary. Thank you.
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I've watched this video at least 10 times and it never gets old. It's utterly fascinating how much color and variety exists in the ocean. Equally amazing is the unlimited types of disguise used. Definitely on my bucket list to dive here.
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Many documentaries are around 50 minutes long and they can often feel like they're too long. This one is nearly 2 hours long, yet it's so good that it doesn't feel long enough!
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bubble vision has the most amazing documentaries there is hands down! god the music, the narration, the correct scientific information, the unique animals that don’t get in the spotlight much... i’m just in love with every single documentary i’ve seen by them!! thank you so much bubble vision! really shows the actual beauty of the reef that I love so much!
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Wish I could see this in person but a video is a good replacement. Thanks.
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The fact you time capped each section with the corresponding animal made this video even more enjoyable since I've never seen that done before. This documentary was, yet again, absolutely amazing. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
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It is hard to understand that 1.3K people dislike this program. No matter why, I appreciate someone spent so much time and money made this wonderful film.
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I think this is and will remain THE most amazing marine biology film ever made. You just can't top this in ny aspect. Well done Nick!! Make more videos please..
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This is the best YouTube channel for documentary and the best documentary YouTube channel I have ever seen, PLEASE continue to make more
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The seahorse is so adorable. I love that it’s monogamous. The narrative is great. He has a very nice accent. The cameramen are so brave and brilliant.💖
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Thank you SO MUCH for "Reef Life of the Andaman", "Diving in Bali", and "Mucky Secrets"!!!!!! We watch them almost every night, and our 4 parakeets LOVE THEM!!! Personally, you have awoken a deep interest in biology in me that i never knew i had!!!! GREAT WORK NICK AND BUBBLE VISION!!!!!! Love your videos!!!
