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Thank you very much! Glad you liked it. Thank you Maria! Yes, you are more than welcome to share and play it anywhere you like!

Thank you! Yes, that's the full video, the teaser is on reddit, I just copied my post from there.

Filmed over hundreds of dives around Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea, this is a 1-minute teaser for my full 2-hour film featuring wild Pacific octopus and Ruby octopus. From babies the size of a pea to full-grown giants. No narration, no captions—just octopuses doing octopus things in the cold, emerald waters of British Columbia. You’ll see them hunt, change color, fight, crawl, vanish, and interact with their environment in ways that might leave you with a new appreciation for these incredible creatures. Great to play in the background—or just zone out and watch them move.

This video is a collection of footage from hundreds of dives over the past 3 years around Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Dive sites include Nanaimo, Nanoose, Gabriola Island, Campbell River, Barkley Sound, Port Hardy, and Browning Passage. It’s set to relaxing music—no narration, no captions, no divers—just marine life and cold water scenery. Perfect for background viewing or whenever you need a moment of calm. Hope you enjoy it!

This footage was captured over four dives at Orlebar Point, Gabriola Island, British Columbia—two in August and two in January. Orlebar Point is a spectacular cold-water dive featuring a deep wall covered in fields of plumose anemones, colorful crimson anemones, boot sponges, cloud sponges, and plenty of rockfish. If you're lucky, you might even get a visit from curious sea lions, which make the experience even more unforgettable! This dive is definitely for advanced divers, as the area can experience strong currents if the tides aren’t perfectly timed. However, with proper planning, it's a short swim out to the wall, where it dramatically drops into the depths, creating an awe-inspiring underwater landscape. The diversity of marine life here is incredible, making it a must-dive location for anyone exploring British Columbia’s coast.

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the diving here is world-class!

This is a highlight reel from over 230 dives off Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 2024. Locations include Nanaimo/Nanoose, Barkley Sound, and Browning Passage (Port Hardy).

Thanks! I am running my Sony in an Aquatica housing and using their Super Macro port. I do have an extension with a manual focus knob for a different lens but think it would push the end of the port out too far from the lens. I want to buy the lens, but might have to settle for just fixing the magnification and the aperture and using my existing focus ring to work the focus. I currently run the Sony 90mm but it's too much macro for a lot of the critters we have around here. I do have a 3D printer and will be able to print a focus ring. Thank you for the reply!

I am looking for a new macro lens that offers a bit more field of view than my Sony 90mm. I've been looking at this https://www.laowalenses.ca/product/laowa-60mm-f2-8-21-ultra-macro-lens/ has anyone used this underwater? It's a fully manual lens, meaning the focus, the aperture, and the zoom are all manual. I am shooting an Aquatica housing with the Aquatica macro port setup. I can 3D print a focus ring no problem but will not be able to adjust aperture or zoom once in the housing. I am assuming, I can just fix these to whatever I want and then control exposure using ISO and my lights. Has anyone used this lens?

I just got back from a trip to Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island with Rendezvous Dive Adventures and used the Laowa 10mm again. Blake at Aquatica was kind enough to ship me their prototype dome port for this specific lens, so I gave it a try too. This is a very challenging lens to use without excellent ambient lighting. With very poor viz in the first 30 feet it made for some really dark diving, which makes the ultra-wide angle even more challenging. I am using two Kraken 18,000 lumen lights, it's tough to avoid backscatter, even with the lights angled way out because of the ultrawide angle of the lens. With good ambient lighting though, this lens is pretty cool to use!

I went for a dive this evening using the Laowa 10mm. I was using my 8" Aquatica Acrylic dome port and a 29mm extension (#48453) from the mini-macro port. I left the dome shades ON. I definitely need to put some black tape over the letters as they were reflecting into the footage. I am pretty impressed with this lens! There are certainly some soft corners and a slight bit of distortion on the outer edges, but I love the wide angle! The autofocus works quite well but it needs a lot of light, when we got deeper I really had to crank the ISO. I pretty much shot F8 to F11 the entire time and the ISO ranged from as low as 640 to as high as 64,000 for some shots. I try and stay 3200 or 12800 if possible as it seems to be the cleanest. The A7Siii does handle high ISO pretty well.

I have the Sony auto focus version but I can still toggle manual focus through the camera and then use the focus wheel when I want to manually focus.