Mucky Secrets (full) - The Marine Creatures of the Lembeh Strait

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Published 2014-09-01

"Mucky Secrets" is a documentary about the marine life of the Lembeh Strait at the heart of the Coral Triangle off north Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The Lembeh Strait is a popular scuba diving destination, famed for its excellent "muck diving". A huge diversity of exotic marine creatures can be found on the mucky seabed, including everything from tropical fish to benthic sharks to nudibranchs. Critters compete for survival with an armoury including camouflage, mimicry, toxicity, and dazzling coloration.

"Mucky Secrets" is an excellent resource for scuba divers, aquarists, and marine biology students. The documentary features underwater macro footage from many of Lembeh's famous dive sites including Critter Hunt, Police Pier, Tanjung Kusu-Kusu, Nudi Falls, Aer Perang, Jahir, Makawide, Nudi Retreat, Retak Larry, TK (Teluk Kembahu), Hairball and Aw Shucks.

There are subtitles/CC tracks for the narration and for the scientific and common names of the marine species, and dive site names.

Watch the 4-minute prologue video at • Mucky Secrets - Prologue - The Marine...

Marine life featured:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:11 Corals
0:05:57 Tunicates - sea squirts - ascidians
0:06:37 Symbiosis - sea anemones - anemonefish (clownfish)

CRUSTACEANS
0:07:29 Commensal shrimps (partner shrimps)
0:09:12 Emperor shrimp
0:11:07 Mantis shrimps
0:12:34 Squat lobsters
0:13:27 Hermit crabs
0:14:26 True crabs
0:15:55 Sea Urchins

ELASMOBRANCHS
0:17:11 Blue spotted stingrays
0:18:15 Brownbanded bamboo shark

EELS
0:18:59 Snake eels
0:20:27 Moray eels
0:21:34 Ribbon eels

REEF FISHES
0:22:33 Cardinalfishes
0:24:43 Trumpetfish
0:25:58 Seahorses
0:27:06 Pygmy seahorse
0:28:30 Pipefishes
0:30:38 Ghost pipefishes
0:33:22 Shrimpfishes - razorfishes
0:33:58 Seamoths - short dragonfish
0:35:03 Oriental flying gurnard
0:35:58 Blennies
0:36:49 Gobies
0:37:46 Sea pen
0:38:17 Dragonets
0:40:49 Mandarinfish
0:42:08 Frogfishes
0:46:39 Juvenile fishes
0:47:12 Spotted parrotfish
0:48:20 Sweetlips
0:49:05 Yellowblotch razorfish
0:49:37 Filefishes
0:50:24 Boxfishes - cowfishes
0:50:57 Puffers (pufferfish)
0:52:21 Sharpnose puffers (tobies)
0:52:50 Porcupinefishes
0:53:45 Panther grouper
0:54:10 Whitemargin stargazer
0:54:54 Leopard flounder
0:55:25 Flatheads
0:56:36 Scorpionfishes
0:57:27 Ambon Scorpionfish
0:58:04 Rhinopias
0:59:50 Lionfishes
1:02:29 Demon stinger (spiny devilfish, bearded ghoul)
1:03:17 Fireworm
1:03:45 Waspfishes

MOLLUSCS
CEPHALOPODS
1:05:48 Cuttlefishes
1:08:38 Octopuses
1:11:34 Flame scallop
GASTROPODS
1:12:03 Sea snails
1:14:37 Sea slugs - nudibranchs
1:21:49 Sea slugs feeding
1:23:57 Nudibranchs mating
1:26:11 Sap-sucking slug
1:26:59 Headshield slugs
1:27:49 Sea hares
1:30:21 Polyclad flatworm
1:31:18 End credits

I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at:
www.bubblevision.com/

I post updates about my videos here:
www.facebook.com/bubblevision
google.com/+bubblevision
www.twitter.com/nicholashope
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MUSIC CREDITS:
Arrival of the Broken Kings by Klangachse (klangachse.de/)
The Unknown by Jaycieh (soundcloud.com/jaycieh)

All the following tracks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Covert Affair, Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Snake Lady, Hitman, Sneak 'n Get Caught, Water Prelude, The Other Side of the Door, Sneaky Adventure, Umbrella Pants, Comfortable Mystery, Babylon, Mysterioso March, Sneaky Snitch, Hidden Agenda, Lightless Dawn, Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Mermaid, Scheming Weasel (slower version), Brittle Rille, Perspectives by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com/)
Mystery 2, Joy 2 by Tom Cusack (Leafy Lane Productions)(freemusicforvideos.com/)
Divider, Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/)
Mountain Breeze (pad), Biosphere by Purple Planet (purple-planet.com/)
Second Thoughts by James Kirsch a.k.a. generalfuzz (generalfuzz.net/, soundcloud.com/generalfuzz)
Blade Walker by Lahniz (soundcloud.com/lahniz)
Untitled Ambient Tune by TekMerc (soundcloud.com/tekmerc)
Melody of the Lost Ark by Ojini Project (soundcloud.com/ojiniproject)

Thanks to:
- Two Fish Divers (twofishdivers.com/) who I stayed and dived with on Lembeh Island, and especially to their keen-eyed dive guides for their critter spotting
- Phiangpis Phanchana for diving and production assistance
- Gerry Allen and Teresa Zubi (starfish.ch/) for assistance with marine species identification
- Bill Rudman for creating the now-idle sea slug forum (seaslugforum.net/), still an invaluable source of knowledge.

The video was shot by Nick Hope with a Sony HVR-Z1P HDV camera in a Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing with Light & Motion Elite lights, a flat port, and a Century +3.5 diopter.

All Comments (21)

@vickytoria9893 1 year ago

When I watch underwater documentaries, I feel like I have had some sort of hallucinogenic drug 😂 I just get mesmerized and submerged into the diver’s and narrator’s experience. This particular doc has a even more soothing and trippy effect due to spectacular videography and narrator’s tone and voice pitch. Loved it. ❤
@WobblesandBean 3 years ago

This is, hands down, the best privately made documentary I've ever seen, and one of the best documentaries on the Sulawesi reefs/Lembeh strait, period. One of my dreams is to get my diving cert and go here to see the adorable tiny frogfish and if I'm lucky, a flamboyant cuttlefish! Thank you so much for sharing this for all of us to see. It's absolutely beautiful. I wish I could contact you and ask you all about how you were able to do all of this and what equipment is necessary to get into macro marine photography like you do!
@ogfrostbyte 1 year ago

As informative as Wikipedia and as relaxing as ASMR. This video is the perfect combination that I keep returning to. I'm not sick of it even after over three years since I found it.
@gabrieldonzelli1075 4 years ago

I have been to Lembeh twice. I attest to the amazing creatures that have evolved so that they can thrive in this inhospitable environment. This high-quality documentary makes me both learn the science that studies these species and, mainly, go back to do a lot more muck diving.
@christinestill5002 5 years ago

I've watched dive videos for 50 years and I've never seen one that even approached this for variety, explanation or sheer amazement that doesn't stop.The narration is excellent. Thanks
@poisonouspython1410 6 years ago

This has to be one of the most high quality bits of self-produced HD marine videography I've ever seen. The detail and crispness of the rendering in 720p is simply mind blowing.
@963ag 7 months ago

This is one of the most incredible undersea documentaries that I have seen... And I have seen many, starting with Jaques Cousteau, when I was a child! This documentary features creatures I haven't seen, or was even aware of. The diversity shown and photography are awesome.
@alexisjefferson4519 3 years ago

Live action finding Nemo? Beautiful. But seriously this documentary must have received several awards it’s so well shot and the narrators voice is so soothing 🙂
@stevesolo16 5 years ago

This is a MUST WATCH video for those of us who keep reef tanks and dive the Indio-pacific. The photography is amazing and the description of each creature is Top Notch! The area where each creature is found is well documented and shows just how much phytoplankton saturation abounds there. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did. I couldn't stop watching, front to back! Booyeah!
@amberm8574 2 years ago

I cannot believe this was made almost 8 years ago! This was one of the best documentaries I've watched about the ocean, and the fact you got most, if not all of the footage yourself?! I am extremely impressed! Thank you so much for this!
@user-qh5nm7di2r 4 months ago

BEST SCUBA UNDERSEA LIFE VIDEO EVER!!!! SHOW THIS TO EVERYONE, IT'S MESMERISING!
@cynthiafreespirit2817 2 years ago

Excellent underwater photos Nick Hope! Thank you so much!!!
@NickLiang 7 years ago

I can't believe there is such exceptional free content on Youtube! Bravo!!!
@TheUndert0ker 5 years ago

This is amazing. The level of diversity in the ocean is mind boggling.
@squishiergnat377 3 years ago

I cannot fathom why someone would dislike this video
@alisonkrein4139 2 years ago

I watch 100s of nature documentaries (work with university natural sciences dept.) and Mucky Secrets is my favorite—all the more amazing for seemingly being an independent project, not a studio release. The videography is top tier, it showcases a fascinating part of the undersea world, and it features 100s of species with brief, interesting commentary on each one. I return to it again and again.
@tonylangham911 5 years ago

As a member of edasset and a plastic bag fighter for 20 years this is amazing and should be on every school curriculum to show them WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SAVE - Tony Langham in SALISBURY,UK
@allsmiles3281 7 years ago

THIS is how documentaries should be done! No annoying music, people talking about irrelevant info etc. ! bravo
@lygoozman125 2 years ago

Man I wish we got more of these. i get they’re hard to make, and the man hasn’t uploaded in 4 years. This and the Andaman video are the best documentaries I’ve ever seen
@terrioestreich4007 1 year ago

This is one of the best underwater films that I've ever seen- thank you!!