Dakuwaqa's Garden - Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga

Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific.

Please "like", favorite, share, or leave a comment here or on my channel at http://www.youtube.com/bubblevision. My Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/bubblevision and I have more scuba diving videos and underwater footage on my website at http://www.bubblevision.com, where you can also license rights managed and royalty free stock footage.

The coral reefs of the south Pacific are alive with a huge variety of tropical fish and marine critters. A great way to explore them is to scuba dive with the Nai'a liveaboard based in Fiji. I was working as the Nai'a's video pro when I shot this footage. See http://www.naia.com.fj/

The underwater footage was shot in high definition HDV 1080i 60i with my Sony HVR-Z1P HDV camera in a Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing. The footage was converted to 720p for YouTube using my high quality method:
http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-video/Vegas-YouTube-Vimeo.htm

The music is "In the Meadows" by Stephen Richard Thomas Brown, whose wonderful work you can find here:
http://www.myspace.com/stephenrichardthomasbrown
http://stephenrichardthomasbrown.bandcamp.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=276599

View the names of all the dive sites and names of all the tropical fish and other marine life by turning on closed captions with the CC button. Here is the full shot list of species and dive sites. You can find more complete information at http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Fiji-and-Tonga/scuba-diving.htm :

0:04 - "E6", Bligh Water, Fiji
0:06 - Reticulated Dascyllus at "Maytag"
0:09 - "Mushrooms", Namena Marine Reserve
0:11 - "Coral Corner"
0:13 - "Maytag"
0:15 - "Coral Corner"
0:17 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:20 - "E6"
0:22 - Chironephthya corals at "Mount Mutiny"
0:24 - Cave at "Lion's Den" near Wakaya Island
0:28 - Chironephthya corals at "The Whole Shebang"
0:31 - "The Whole Shebang"
0:33 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:35 - "E6"
0:37 - "Kansas" at North Save-a-Tack
0:39 - Lyretail anthias at "Howard's Diner"
0:43 - "Maytag"
0:45 - Banded sea krait at "Jim's Alley" near Gau Island
0:52 - Pacific sailfin tang
0:54 - Button polyps at "Humann Nature"
0:56 - Urn ascidians at "Becky's" near Makogai Island
0:59 - Pom pom Xenia
1:03 - Barberi clownfish
1:05 - Barberi clownfish at "Cat's Meow"
1:07 - Barberi clownfish
1:11 - Pink anemonefish
1:13 - Blueband gobies
1:16 - Firefish at Lua Lafalafa Reef, Tonga
1:18 - Orbicular batfish
1:20 - Teira batfish over the "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
1:22 - Elongate surgeonfish
1:24 - Blackfin barracuda
1:27 - Bigeye trevallies at "Grand Central Station"
1:29 - Schooling bannerfish at "School House"
1:31 - Pacific double-saddle butterflyfish
1:33 - Blue and gold fusiliers over yellow scroll coral at Nigali Passage
1:35 - Barcheek trevally at "Tetons"
1:37 - Golden damsel & bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:40 - Blue and gold fusilier and bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:42 - Sunburst anthias at "Palako's Patch"
1:44 - Speckled damsel spawning at Uoleva Point
1:46 - Arc-eye hawkfish at "Anthias Avenue"
1:38 - Longsnout flathead at Luangahu Reef
1:51 - Ribbon eel at "Tetons"
1:53 - Giant moray
1:55 - Juvenile rockmover wrasse at "Two Thumbs Up"
1:57 - Firefish
2:00 - Red lionfish
2:02 - Whitetip reef shark under "Kansas"
2:04 - Grey reef shark
2:10 - Sinularia corals
2:12 - Blue-spotted puffer
2:15 - Blackspotted puffer at Ha'afeva Island, Tonga
2:17 - Blue-green Chromis
2:21 - Red lionfish
2:23 - Zebra lionfish at Luangahu Reef
2:28 - Coral grouper at "Becky's"
2:30 - Dwarf hawkfish
2:32 - Scorpionfish
2:34 - Randall's prawn-goby
2:36 - Signalfin goby
2:39 - Gorgeous prawn goby & snapping shrimp
2:41 - Weedy pygmy seahorse
2:43 - Ornate ghost pipefish
2:47 - Ornate ghost pipefish eggs in brooding pouch
2:50 - Christmas tree worm
2:53 - Manta ray at Vatu Vai
2:58 - Hawksbill turtle
3:03 - Humpback whale mother and calf at Ha'apai, Tonga
3:10 - Malabar grouper
3:15 - Honeycomb coral
3:19 - "Lion's Den"
3:21 - "Mushrooms"
3:23 - "Coral Corner"
3:25 - "Mushrooms"
3:28 - Whitemargin unicornfish
3:30 - Dendronephthya soft coral
3:32 - Bigeye barracuda
3:35 - "Gomo"
3:39 - "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
3:41 - "E6"
3:43 - Lance blenny
3:45 - Triplespot blenny
3:48 - Valentini puffer
3:50 - Parrotfish at Nukupule
3:52 - Bluespotted ribbontail ray
3:54 - Blotched fantail ray at Ha'afeva Island
3:56 - Orange mantis shrimp
3:59 - Sexy shrimp
4:01 - Day octopus
4:04 - Fuchsia flatworms mating
4:07 - Bullock's Hypselodoris
4:09 - Spanish dancer
4:14 - Spanish dancer at Ha'afeva Island
4:18 - Brown booby at Vatu-i-ra

Dakuwaqa is a shark-god from Fijian mythology. Learn about him at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHydvbCeVg

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[MrFunnyvids2000]

Wtf? I typed in "How to find 33% of 140"...

[bubblevision]

@MrFunnyvids2000 You came to the right place. 462.

[HOWZYD]

@bubblevision Sarcasm at its best. Save the planet! :)



[bubblevision]

@HOWZYD You wrote the opposite of what you meant?

[bbenrud69]

The video is beautiful. The colors are amazing. What video editing/processing software do you use? How much work do you have to do on the footage in the processor to make the colors look so true? Do you use video lights? How about a color correction filter? The close up shots are especially impressive. Is that something you do during processing, or does your camera focus that close?

[bubblevision]

@bbenrud69 Thanks. Most of the wide shots are with sunlight, UR-Pro blue-water filter and manual white balance on my palm. Most of the macro shots are with halogen lights, automatic white balance and no filter. I use Sony Vegas Pro for editing. Every clip has a color curves FX applied to it to adjust colour and luminance. None of the shots are cropped. I deinterlace with QTGMC in AviSynth.

[bubblevision]

@bobx2x2 We're working on it

[bobx2x2]

I'm surprised the human race hasn't destroyed these coral reefs yet.

[c7i6abc]

@MrFunnyvids2000 .33 x 140 = 46.2 : -) was the wrong place, not 462. : -) Just joking

[c7i6abc]

@bubblevision .33 x 140 = 46.2 : -)

[c7i6abc]

@bobx2x2 Right! I kept thinking... There's still fish left? Growing up in Nova Scotia, I use to go to the wharf and watch the fish swim, a lot of species, perch, scallopins, flounder, flat fish, cat fish, eels, pollock, tommy cod and probably a few others, not there's absolutely nothing. That was in the 1960's, they may have still been there in the 70's.

[TheAlonso85]

Que Planeta hermoso q tenemos,làstima q hay gente estùpida q no lo sabe apreciar.

[cwcline7]

The "EYES" have it!!!!

[hirosamii]

Thank you so much for posting this, its absolutely fabulous and really soothing. WIll probably watch it every day now.

[ankaparnahajova]

Wonderful. Wish I was there.