"Komodo Beneath the Waves"

This video earned 1st Place, underwater video category in the 3rd
Annual International Underwater Photography & Video
Competition, organized by DivePhotoGuide.com and Wetpixel.com in
association with Our World Underwater. Mike Boom says of "Komodo
Beneath the Waves": In the summer of 2007, my wife and I went to
Indonesia for a couple of weeks of diving from the Seven Seas
live-aboard dive boat in Komodo National Park. We were very lucky
to be there with Howard and Michele Hall, who were scouting
locations with Peter Kragh for the Halls' upcoming 3D IMAX movie, a
sequel to their very successful Deep Sea 3D. It's always a thorough
education to watch Howard shoot, and the Halls are a lot of fun to
hang out with. Komodo surprised us completely: it wasn't the
dripping green rain-forested islands crawling with Komodo dragons
that I had in my mind's eye, but dry islands that remind me a lot
of the Channel Islands off southern California. (Although there
were Komodo dragons crawling around.) The sea life was amazing:
Lynn and I were completely overwhelmed with the sheer number and
variety of fish, the rich invertebrate life, and the overwhelming
beauty of the coral. This video is an attempt to shoehorn at least
some of that into a three-minute video. For more information on
Mike and his wonderful video work, please visit his website,
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