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The fire urchin, Asthenosoma varium, is a dangerous sea urchin. It is characterized by a fiery coloration and by globular swellings beneath the tips of it's thousands of venomous spines. It can infict a very painful sting. Various crustaceans form commensal relationships with the fire urchin to protect themselves from predators. Coleman shrimps, Periclimenes colemani, usual live in pairs on top of the fire urchin. The female is larger than the male. Zebra crabs, Zebrida adamsii, and urchin shrimps, Allopontonia brockii, are often found near the bottom of fire urchin. They feed on organic matter on the substrate as the sea urchin moves. This type of symbiotic relationship benefits the shrimps and crabs but not the host urchin. Allopontonia iaini is a synonym of Allopontonia brockii. I shot this footage at Anilao in the Philippines while diving with anilao PHOTO hotel (https://www.facebook.com/anilaophotohotel) and with Crystal Blue Resort (http://www.divecbr.com) on their annual Critterfest workshop. Thanks to dive guides and critter spotters Ivan, Obet and Jomel. Thanks to zero-project (http://zero-project.gr) for the music track, "Gothic", from the album "Darkness falls", which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) The video was shot by Nick Hope with a Panasonic GH4 in a Nauticam NA-GH4 housing. I used an Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-50mm f3.5-6.3 EZ lens and 60mm f2.8 macro lens. I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at: http://www.bubblevision.com I post updates about my videos here: http://www.facebook.com/bubblevision http://google.com/+bubblevision http://www.twitter.com/nicholashope http://bubblevision.tumblr.com 03:51

Arthur's Rock
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Lionfish, Sea Urchins, Crown of Thorns - Reef Life of the Andaman - Part 17 Lionfishes, sea urchins and the crown of thorns starfish. Part 17 of my DVD, "Reef Life of the Andaman", available at http://www.bubblevision.com/marine-life-DVD.htm In this video we take a look at marine life from Thailand and Burma that uses venomous spines as a form of defence. Of the lionfish family, the red lionfish, Pterois volitans, is most common across the Andaman Sea, but it is possible that some or all of these are actually the similar Devil Firefish, Pterois miles. Both species are very similar and possess venomous spines along their fins. We meet specimens across various dive sites near Phuket, at Richelieu Rock, and at Black Rock in the Mergui Archipelago. Other species that are included are the zebra lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, the rare frillfin turkeyfish, Pterois mombasae, and the spotfin lionfish, Pteroid antennata. We then look at the crown-of-thorns starfish, or crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster planci, which also has stinging, venomous spines on its body that contain a neuro-toxin intended to cause paralysis. This starfish feeds on hard corals and human intervention has been required in some parts of the world where these starfish threatened to destroy enitre reef systems. Finally we examine sea urchins, specifically the black longspine urchin, Diadema setosum, which is prevalent across the Andaman Sea. We see a large colony of them at Racha Yai Island, near Phuket in Thailand. The full narration is available as English, German or Spanish subtitles by turning on the closed captions (CC). There are also closed captions available showing scientific and common names of the marine life in English, German or Dutch, along with dive site names. Thanks to Erik Verkoyen for the music track, "Black Corals". "Reef Life of the Andaman" is being serialised weekly on YouTube. Please subscribe to my channel to receive notifications of new episodes as I release them. The series 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.. I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at: http://www.bubblevision.com I post updates about my videos, and interesting underwater videos from other filmmakers here: http://www.facebook.com/bubblevision http://www.twitter.com/nicholashope The video was shot by Nick Hope with a Sony VX2000 DV camera in a Gates housing. It was edited in Sony Vegas Pro then deinterlaced with QTGMC and upscaled to 720p HD in AviSynth. Thanks to Santana Diving of Phuket (http://www.santanaphuket.com), to Elfi and Uli Erfort for help with the German translation, and to Frank Nelissen for the Dutch subtitles. Full list of venomous marine life and dive sites featured in this video: 00:00 Stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa, Boonsung Wreck 00:05 King Cruiser Wreck 00:17 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, King Cruiser 00:28 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, Koh Bida Nok 00:36 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, Koh Tachai 00:42 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, Anemone Reef 00:50 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, Black Rock 00:58 Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, or Devil Firefish, Pterois miles, Richelieu Rock 01:14 Zebra Lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, Shark Cave 01:21 Zebra Lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, Lucy's Reef, Racha Yai 01:25 Zebra Lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, Fan Forest Pinnacle 01:42 Frillfin turkeyfish, Pterois mombasae, Richelieu Rock 01:56 Spotfin Lionfish, Pterois antennata, Staghorn Reef, Racha Yai 02:09 Spotfin Lionfish, Pterois antennata, Koh Tachai 02:13 Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci, Koh Tachai 02:19 Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci, Lucy's Reef, Racha Yai 02:23 Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci, Bungalow Bay, Racha Yai 02:48 Black Longspine Urchin, Diadema setosum, Richelieu Rock 03:00 Black Longspine Urchin, Diadema setosum, Shark Point 03:06 Black Longspine Urchin, Diadema setosum, Koh Doc Mai 03:14 Sea Urchin Cardinalfish, Siphamia versicolor, Koh Bon 03:47

Ko Tachai
Thailand
The MV Alma Jane Express, scuttled in Puerto Galera in March 2003, is a 60-ton 115-foot Japanese cargo ship built in 1966. Depth on the sea floor/cargo hold is 30m and 22m on the upper deck. I usually take pictures with my underwater point and click but instead tried taking video with my new GoPro Hero 3 Silver. This is my second ever attempt at video editing. I enjoyed this excellent dive with Action Divers http://www.actiondivers.com Music is "Hannibal" by Caribou. No copyright infringement is intended. I am not making money off this video. 03:58

M-V Alma Jane Wreck
Philippines

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