Dreams of Kelp - San clemente, Catalina and Anacapa scuba diving in Sept, 2009

Scuba diving magical gardens of kelp at southern California Channel islands around labour day 2009 (4-8.9.2009) featuring bliss of kelp with soft enchanted light filtering through to the depths of ocean. Schools of sardins and blues with magnificent hydrocoral and occasional batrays made this trip truly one for the books! California diving at its best. Actually - any diving at its best! We were onboard Vision liveaboard from Truthaquatics on this trip and visited beautiful kelp forests at divesites such as Farnsworth banks and Pyramid cove arch at Anacapa, San Celement and Catalina islands.

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• scuba
• diving
• california
• channel
• islands
• sardin
• fish
• bat
• ray
• kelp
• forest
• vision
• truthaquatics
• san
• clemente
• catalina
• anacapa
• pacific
• ocean

[cquickel23]

fucking amazing video its soo peaceful

it makes me want to go dive right now!

[midael75]

Thank You! :)

[funthea]

What video format did your camera record in. And what format did you convert it to, in order to upload to youtube, in this good of quality?

[midael75]

Thanks! It was recorded on Canon 5D2 which produces 1080p baseline@L5 H.264 stream (YUV 4:2:0). After post production the version here was downsampled/encoded to 720p high@L4.1 stream via x264 H.264 encoder (+ AAC encoding, muxing and the works) and then uploaded to Youtube (I recall the bitrate was 10Mbps, with 2pass encode, using insane quality on x264). I hope this was helpful!

[tro1000]

What kind of gear were you using to shoot this? The footage is pristine.

[midael75]

Thanks! Its shot with Canon 5D2, ambient light only. Lens was Canon 24mm 2.8 prime in Ikelite housing with a baby dome port.

[gun45shy]

I'll never forget my one dive in the Channel Islands in 1970. I saw all these things. So majestically beautiful...And what a beautiful sound track!

[varvorines]

Hi there! Can you e-mail me the info to go on this underwater see tour if it is a company. I'd love to go. Also, what camera did you use? I want to make sure I use the same!

[HDVideoGuy]

Nice!

[Iwalani177]

This is so amazing! I just recently got into diving myself. What is the name of the song that begins at 4:22? it is beautiful!

[pekunpele2]

Awesome video, these are visions of my favorite places on the planet.

Thanks for the trip

Bill