A few days ago I was out filming a new promotional video for Koh Tao Easy Divers. I took Stuart- who's finishing up his professional underwater videographer internship- along with me to try out Oceans Below's newest toys, the Aquatica HD Wave video housings and Sony HDR-XR500 cameras. We had a nice dive at Japanese Gardens and then moved round to Twins.

After shooting a bunch of underwater shots for the video, we headed off into the sand just north of the dive site itself. We were in search of the sea horses that live out there, as they would be great subjects for a bit of close up HD macro work.

We found the sea horses and spent about 15 minutes filming them. We then swam off north to see what else we could find. After about 10 min of swimming over sand I spotted something moving quite strangely. On closer inspection it turned out to be a fish that I have never seen before. It was moving like a juv sweetlip- dancing around aimlessly- but the long fin on top of its head rules that out. It also did not stay in one spot like a sweetlips would instead flickering all about the place.


Have you seen this fish?

I always love to see something new out there and this is definitely new to me. But I could use some help identifying this little guy. He was only about 10-12 cm or so and it was tough to catch a good close-up shot of him because he just wouldn't sit still! These photos were also from the video camera we had out for a road test rather than the Canon G10's that we use for photography, so the images are a bit grainy, but I'd love to hear from anyone who may have an idea.