Last week I was working with Seashell Divers filming a PADI Open Water course at Chumphon Pinnacle, about a 45 minute boat ride from Koh Tao. The visibility was just perfect and we had a beautiful dive. Towards the end of the dive we decided to head up to 5 metres to do out safety stop.


Oceans Below Videographer Gill filmed this odd couple at Chumpon Pinnacle

While the students were hanging on the buoyline, I noticed a big jellyfish swimming along about 3 metres below the surface. I quickly swam over with the camera and began to film it. Then I noticed that inside the jellyfish (on the underside where the tentacles are) was a big crab! At first I thought that the crab was dead and had been killed by the jellyfish. But then the crab crawled out and began walking around on the top on the jellyfish! It was an amazing thing to see, especially so near the surface. There were also many other tiny fish swimming in very close to the jellyfish so I guess its quite a social place to be!

Seeing such cool stuff on a daily basis is just another reason that I think that working as an underwater videographer has got to be the best job in the world!