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“Reef Life of the Andaman” is a documentary of the marine life of Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). It is available on DVD at http://www.bubblevision.com/marine-life-DVD.htm

Scuba diving more than 1000 times from the coral reefs and underwater pinnacles of Thailand’s Similan Islands, Phuket, Phi Phi Island and Hin Daeng, to Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago and Burma Banks, I encountered everything from manta rays to seahorses, whale sharks to shipwrecks. The 116-minute film 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..

Marine life & underwater subjects featured in the film:

0:00:00 – Introduction
0:01:42 – Underwater caves
0:02:18 – Corals and anemones
ELASMOBRANCHS – SHARKS
0:03:37 – Carpet sharks (zebra sharks / leopard sharks and nurse sharks)
0:06:45 – Whale sharks
0:11:26 – Requiem sharks (grey reef sharks, silvertip sharks, whitetip reef sharks)
RAYS
0:13:44 – Stingrays
0:17:05 – Eagle rays & devil rays / mobulas
0:18:48 – Manta rays
REEF FISHES
0:21:24 – Moray eels
0:25:50 – Seahorse
0:27:12 – Cornetfish & trumpetfish
0:28:50 – Batfish (spadefish)
0:30:09 – Angelfish
0:31:34 – Butterflyfish
0:32:41 – Bannerfish
0:33:30 – Moorish idol
0:33:56 – Surgeonfish (tang) & unicornfish
0:34:42 – Bigeye
0:35:10 – Emperor Snapper
0:35:26 – Sweetlips
0:36:05 – Grouper (rockcod)
0:38:24 – Humphead wrasse
0:38:52 – Green humphead parrotfish
0:39:38 – Barracuda
0:40:37 – Trevally (jacks)
0:41:21 – Pufferfish
0:42:32 – Boxfish
0:44:28 – Porcupinefish
0:46:10 – Scrawled filefish
0:46:33 – Triggerfish
CRUSTACEANS
0:48:23 – Spiny lobster
0:49:35 – Shrimps
0:50:39 – Red-legged swimming crab
MOLLUSCS – GASTROPODS
0:51:13 – Cowries
0:52:46 – Sea slugs / nudibranchs
BIVALVES
0:54:55 – Fluted giant clam
0:55:38 – Tuna Wreck – Similan Islands
0:56:00 – Schooling fish – Cardinalfish
0:56:56 – Hardyhead silversides
0:57:15 – Fusilier
0:57:45 – African pompano
0:57:49 – Striped eel catfish
0:58:02 – Schooling snapper
0:59:08 – Schooling barracuda
1:00:30 – Dogtooth tuna
1:00:45 – Bigeye trevally
HIDING
1:01:15 – Pastel Tilefish
1:01:49 – Stingrays in sand
1:02:43 – Octopus ink
CAMOUFLAGE – MIMICRY
1:03:03 – Straightstick pipefish
1:03:28 – Ornate ghost pipefish
1:04:19 – Giant frogfish
1:05:14 – Scorpionfish
1:06:42 – Stonefish
1:07:17 – King Cruiser shipwreck
VENOMOUS SPINES
1:07:29 – Lionfish
1:09:25 – Crown-of-thorns starfish
1:10:00 – Sea urchin
SYMBIOSIS
1:10:26 – Sea urchin cardinalfish
1:10:49 – Anemonefish / Clownfish / Sea anemones
1:13:53 – Porcelain anemone crab
1:14:39 – Tube anemone
1:15:13 – Rhizostome jellyfish
1:16:09 – Fishes feeding
1:16:16 – Streaked spinefoot
1:16:31 – Parrotfish
1:17:02 – Goatfish
1:17:10 – Bluefin trevally
1:17:29 – Smalltooth emperor
1:17:51 – Fringelip mullet
REPTILES
1:20:26 – Banded sea krait (sea snake)
1:21:46 – Pacific Hawksbill turtle
1:23:26 – Green turtle
SHRIMPS
1:25:05 – Harlequin shrimp
1:26:09 – Peacock mantis shrimp
CLEANING
1:27:08 – Skunk cleaner shrimp
1:27:57 – Cleaner wrasse
1:29:07 – Rock cleaner shrimp
1:29:27 – False cleanerfish
1:30:07 – Remora / live sharksucker
1:31:38 – Cobia
1:32:47 – Rainbow runner
POLYCHAETE WORMS
1:38:18 – Feather duster worm
1:33:43 – Hard tube coco worm
1:33:53 – Christmas tree worm
1:34:39 – Sea cucumber
SEX
1:36:54 – Broadcast spawning
1:37:42 – Oyster
1:38:19 – Pharaoh cuttlefish mating
1:40:15 – Bigfin reef squid
1:40:36 – Day octopus fighting
1:43:25 – Rough-toothed dolphin
1:43:48 – Night diving
1:49:38 – Crabs at night
1:52:56 – Hermit crab
1:54:22 – Basket stars

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

MUSIC CREDITS:
Prickly Shark, Black Corals, Jewel Squid by Erik Verkoyen
Freefall Into The Blue, Buoyancy, Tai Long Wan, Andaman Resonance, Hidden Depths, Similan Sunrise, The Cool Of The Forest by Mark Ellison
Blood Wine by Condor e (Velvet Night Album)
Dream And You Will Fly by Menno Hoomans (http://twitter.com/mhoomans)
Just Walk Away by Adam Fielding (http://adamfielding.com)
Deep Blue, Starbeam by Toao (SOILSOUND Music Publishing LLC) (http://soilsound.com)
Space Frigate by Smashed Toy (http://soundclick.com/smashedtoy)
Deliberate Thought, Modern Vibes by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)
Pattern Errors by Coded
Bird’s Song (Edit) by Absorb Fish (http://soundcloud.com/absorb-fish)

Thanks to Santana Diving of Phuket (http://www.santanaphuket.com), to Rob Royle for a few of the clips, to Elfi and Uli Erfort and Daniel Bruehwiler for help with the German translation, and to Frank Nelissen for the Dutch subtitles.

Duration : 1:56:24

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theres a girl in a class i really like and want to get to know weve only gone as far as exchanging names. but theres another guy who always talks to her first and asks basically the same questions i want to ask. at that point i feel helpless since i dont want to ask her the same things. what should i do? should i just be more proactive? Hes almost persistant to the point that its making me feel useless.

Dang man, you’re playing the game every guy absolutely hates to play.

Talk to her, pull a line, but not a lame one. For example, and I’ll leave when to say this up to you, "You know, you have a really pretty name." Or something like, "Pretty name for a pretty girl." You know, be versatile.

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Adjusting your attire isn’t a bad idea either. I don’t know your sense of style, but guys that know how to dress themselves always seem more attractive. You can never go wrong with black, wear clothes that fit, nice blue jeans. Don’t forget a belt, brown is more on the casual side, while black is a little dressier and sleeker. Again, black t-shirts, you can never go wrong with them. Black v-necks especially. Also, a nice button up, collard shirt with your sleeves rolled up looks nice too. Leave the first button unbuttoned. If you wear a collard shirt, iron it.

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The only piece of advice I have left to give you is to know that this will not be a one day game, you will have to be persistent.

Good luck! Be confident!

Check me out at www.ScubaSteveAquatics.com

Here is a brief overview of my fishroom. I will be getting into more details of how exactly everything is set up in future videos. If you have any specific questions of something you see or would like more details just let me know. I might just shoot a video of it for you. I will be expanding my fishroom in the near future and will be posting step by step along the way. Thanks for looking!

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