Nick Hope

Nudibranchs are common at Tiwoho, including Chromodoris tinctoria and Nembrotha cristata. Other fascintating critters featured are orange anemonefish (Amphiprion sandaracinos), a school of rigid shrimpfish (Centriscus scutatus) and an ornate ghost pipefish (Solenostomus paradoxus).

This footage was shot in a single dive in June 2006 with http://www.TwoFishDivers.com

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In between we meet various nudibranchs including the distinctive Melibe viridis, an orange devil scorpionfish, a moray eel hosting a clear cleaner shrimp, a strapweed filefish, a peacock mantis shrimp, an urchin crab taking cover under a blue-spotted urchin, and a juvenile emperor snapper and red lionfish in the midst of a group of blue-spotted urchins.

Shot in June 2006 at http://www.TwoFishDivers.com

The music is Starbeam by Toao of http://www.soilsound.com

More Lembeh Strait muck diving videos on http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Lembeh/

The video also features nudibranchs, a demon stinger, a cockatoo waspfish, a snake eel and saddleback anemonefish.

Shot in June 2006 at http://www.TwoFishDivers.com

The music is Afterglow by Toao of http://www.soilsound.com

More Lembeh Strait muck diving videos on http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Lembeh/

Scuba diving in Bali in 2006 with AquaMarine Diving. This 54-minute film features the USAT Liberty Wreck, Coral Garden and the Drop-off from Tulamben, macro from Seraya Secrets, Blue Lagoon and Pura Jepun from Padangbai, and the manta rays of Manta Point from Nusa Penida.

This is available as a DVD from http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Bali/

Muck diving in the Lembeh Strait. Weird and wonderful critters from north Sulawesi. This is the best footage from my 2006 trip with Two Fish Divers, featuring video from classic Lembeh Strait sites including Hairball, Aer Perang, TK (Teluk Kembahu), Aw Shucks, Police Pier, Angels' Window, Nudi Falls, Nudi Retreat and Jahid.

More Lembeh Strait muck diving videos on http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Lembeh/

Scuba diving at Bunaken Island near Manado in Indonesia. This is the best of the footage from my 2006 trip, including a baby whale shark at Lekuan. This whale shark was only 4 or 5 feet long and had two big remoras attached to it.

More Bunaken Island and Manado diving videos at http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Bunaken-Manado/

This classic muck dive is also on the Sulawesi bank of the Lembeh Strait and is so named because of the clumps of weed lying on the black volcanic sand. The video opens with a striated anglerfish (hairy frogfish - Antennarius striatus) "running" across the seabed then squaring up to the camera, and closes with an Ambon scorpionfish (Pteroidichthys amboinensis) lunging at a small bypasser.

In between we meet various nudibranchs including the distinctive Melibe viridis, an orange devil scorpionfish, a moray

Tiwoho is a village on the Sulawesi mainland, just north of Manado and pleasant boat ride from Bunaken Island. The diving here is different from the sites on Bunaken Island, and has a more "muck diving" feel.

The video open with a school of striped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus). We then meet a chocolate chip starfish (Protoreaster nodosus), a black juvenile ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) and a juvenile harlequin sweetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides).

Nudibranchs are common at Tiwoho, including C

Aer Perang lies on the Sulawesi bank of the Lembeh Strait. The name means "war water" originated because just after WWI a passing warship blasted a hole in the rocks to get at the fresh water. The video stars the weedy scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa), for many the 'holy grail' of underwater critters.

The video opens with Banggai cardinalfish which originate from Indonesia's Banggai island. Legend has it that a bag of these fish intended for an aquarium was accidentally dropped into the Lembeh Strait, wh

Bunaken Timur lies on the east coast of Bunaken Island. Sachiko's Point is nearby at the north-east corner. Both are typical Bunaken wall dives featuring a wealth of marine life. The video features crinoids (feather stars), a napoleon wrasse, a spotted eagle ray, nudibranchs, a school of striped bonito, banded boxer shrimps, redtooth triggerfish and a beautiful Hypselodoris apolegma nudibranch.

Also featuring a school of juvenile striped eel catfish, Indo-Pacific sergeants, a whitemouth moray eel, a banded

A montage of footage of critters from Police Pier, Nudi Falls, Nudi Retreat, Angel's Window, Aw Shucks and Pantai Parigi in the Lembeh Strait. The video features amazing critters from these classic muck dives including moorish idols, a pinnate batfish, Clark's anemonefish, a school of coral shrimpfish (razor-fish), ribbon eels and Banggai cardinalfish.

Also featuring a humpback grouper, striped eel catfish, snowflake moray, painted frogfish (anglerfish), striated frogfish ("hairy" frogfish), nudibranchs (s

The video opens with a coconut (veined) octopus (Octopus marginatus) at Pantai Parigi in the Lembeh Strait, sheltering inside a broken glass.

We then encounder an amazing mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) at "Aw Shuks" impersonating a flounder and banded sea snakes while fleeing from observers. This species was not officially identified and described by scientists until 1998.

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On the north-east side of Nusa Penida in Bali lies a cleaning station for giant manta rays (Manta birostris) known as "Manta Point".

On 23rd May 2006 I had the pleasure of diving with these graceful giants while diving with www.AquaMarineDiving.com

More Bali diving videos at www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Bali/

A montage of night-dive video footage from "Muka", right in front of Two Fish Divers' resort on Bunaken Island.

The video features a snowflake moray, a blackspotted puffer, a stareye parrotfish (Carolines parrotfish), a Chromodoris dianae nudibranch, a Pleurobranchus grandis sidegill slug, a twinspot lionfish (Fu Manchu lionfish), tassled scorpionfish, and many crustaceans including a decorator crab, a sponge crab, a splendid round crab, a blue-spotted hermit crab, a pronghorn spiny lobster and a marble sh

The Molas shipwreck was a Dutch cargo vessel sunk during WWII near Molas beach, just outside the town of Manado in North Sulawesi. The deepest part of the wreck lies in 40m water. A school of longfin batfish (Platax teira) circles the top of the wreck.

At nearby Tanjung Pisok, also on the Sulawesi mainland, we meet orang-utan crabs (Achaeus japonicus) in their familiar habitat on a bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) and a delightful tiny clown frogfish (Antennarius maculatus).

Shot in June 2006 with http://

Seraya Secrets, nearby to Tulamben in North East Bali, is an exellent muck dive known for weird and wonderful critters. A small school of batfish hang around the artificial reef project in the shallows. A little deeper we find two thorny seahorses, a school of juvenile striped eel catfish, a porcelain anemone crab and two different nudibranchs.

Also featuring a scrawled filefish on a branching tube sponge, a white-spotted puffer, a yellowmargin triggerfish, a snowflake moray eel swimming in search for food

By night the Drop-off and The River at Tulamben provides plenty of treats for the visiting diver. This video includes a crinoid squat lobster, a deadly textile cone, a dwarf cuttlefish, a scrawled filefish and an anemone hermit crab.

Also featuring a bluespotted stingray, a red lionfish, a mean-looking banded moray, a sleeping palenose parrotfish, a pyramid butterflyfish, raccoon butterflyfish, lemon damsel, a juvenile bigeye emperor, a black-saddled toby, a blackspotted puffer and a white-spotted puffer.

Video from the Drop-off at Tulamben, Bali, featuring a spectacular purple giant fan coral, Chromodoris nudibranchs, an ornate ghost pipefish and a spotted seahorse.

Before and after exploring the drop-off we spend time in the bay at The River where we meet Tulamben's famous schools of bigeye trevallies and a school of yellowstripe scad.

Also featuring a narrow-lined puffer, red lionfish, yellowsaddle goatfish, blue-spotted puffer, giant barrel sponge, blue face angelfish, clown triggerfish, Philippine but

Tiwoho is a village on the Sulawesi mainland, just north of Manado and pleasant boat ride from Bunaken Island. The diving here is different from the sites on Bunaken Island, and has a more "muck diving" feel.

The video open with a school of striped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus). We then meet a chocolate chip starfish (Protoreaster nodosus), a black juvenile ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) and a juvenile harlequin sweetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides).

Nudibranchs are common at Tiwoho, including C

The USAT Liberty was torpedoed by the Japanese off Lombok and beached at Tulamben in Bali. In 1963 the last eruption of Mount Agung caused the wreck to slide deeper into the sea where she lies today.

The USAT Liberty shipwreck makes an excellent dive site. This video features the towering stern, the coral-encrusted gun on the bow, and the wreck's atmospheric interior.

Today the wreck is teeming with marine life. The video includes the famous green humphead parrotfish, a hawksbill turtle, garden eels, swee