Dar Scuba Diving Highlights

Renee Blundon May 26, 2014 1 min read0 214

Highlights from dar scuba diving in Dar es Salaam from from January – May 2014. A total of 51 video clips with color changing squid encounters, a snuggling puffer fish, a variety of tropical fish, diverse reefs, coral caves, wreck and night dive footage, dar crustacean interactions and more. Press the “Play” button above and watch in HD for optimum viewing.

Filming Locations

Bongoyo Patches
Shark North
Remora
Big T-Wall
Schlemmerstad Wreck
Pipe Fish City (night dive)

Dar Clips

(Marine life identified as best as possible)

dar — Clip 1: Coral Cave. Dive Site: Bongoyo Patches

dar — Clip 2: Scroll Coral. Dive site: Remora

dar 2 — Clip 3: Field of coral with Chocolate Dip fish. Dive site: Shark North

dar 3 — Clip 4: Radianthus anemone. Dive site: Remora

Clip 5: Parrotfish, Silver Damsels, Axilspot Hogfish (Bodianus axillaris), and various tropical fish. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

dar 4 — Clip 6: Spotted Wrasse, Yellow-Tail Blue Damselfish, Speckled Butterflyfish, Band Dot Goatfish, and Parrotfish. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

dar 5 — Clip 7: Squids from a distance. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

dar 6 — Clip 8: Shipwreck covered in coral. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

dar 7 — Clip 9: A school of squids. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

dar 8 — Clip 10: Two Stripe Damselfish (Dascyllus reticulatus) and a solo Surgeonfish (Paracanthurus hepatus) at a Acropora Valida Coral. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 11: Porcupinefish or Burrfish. Dive site: Big T-Wall

dar 8 — Clip 12: Forktail Blenny (Meiacanthus atrodorsalis), Chocolate Dip, Bluestriped Fangblenny and Checkerboard Wrass. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

dar 9 — Clip 13: Honeycomb Moray Eel with Bluestriped Fangblenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos). Dive site: Nearby Big T-Wall

dar 10 — Clip 14: School of juvenile game fish, Domino Damsels and Moorish Idols. Dive site: Big T-Wall

dar 11 — Clip 15: Sculptured Slipper Lobster on night dive. Dive site: Pipe Fish City

dar 12 — Clip 16: Yellowstriped Fusileer. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

dar 13 — Clip 17: Ornate Spiny Lobster residing with Honeycomb Moray Eel and Sea Goldies, among others. Dive site: Nearby Big T-Wall

dar 14 — Clip 18: Coral cave with Parrot Fish, Chocolate Dips, among others. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 19: Coral cave and diver, Sylvia, with Parrot Fish, Chocolate Dip fish Sea Goldies, Axilspot Hogfish and Silver Damsels. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 20: Banded Coral Shrimp with Chocolate Dip and Silver Damsel beyond. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 21: Coral field with patch of Radianthus Anemone. Dive site: Shark North

Clip 22: White Peppered Moray Eel and Chocolate Dip beyond. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 23: Veriegated lizardfish. Dive site: Konigsberg Wreck

Clip 24: Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) and Starfish (Linkckia Guildingi). Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 25: Freckled Hawkfish and Chocolate Dips in abundant reef. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 26: Color-changing squids approaching torch light on night dive. Dive site: Pipe Fish City

Clip 27: 3 Scissortail Sergeant fish. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 28: Two Stripe Damselfish and solo Surgeonfish (paracanthurus Hepatus) in a maze of Acropora Valida coral. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 29: A snuggly Porcupinefish or Burrfish. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 30: Band Dot Goatfish, Parrot Fish, Two-Striped Damesel, Black Surgeons, Yellow-Tail Blue Damselfish, Two Stripe Damselfish, among others. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 31: Honeycomb Moray Eel opening mouth. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 32: Parrot Fish and Model Toby among Table Coral, Finger Coral and others. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 33: Renee Blundon, scuba diving alongside top of shipwreck. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 34: Giant Barrel Sponges. Dive site: Nearby Big T-Wall

Clip 35: Silver Damsels and Parrot Fish among corals with a Scissortail Sergeants and Forktail Blenny beyond. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 36: Ornate Spiny Lobster fondling GoPro, Tube Worms and Honeycomb Moray Eel. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 37: Arc-eye Hawkfish. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 38: School of squids. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 39: Shipwreck. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 40: School of Squids and with Silverside fish at the surface. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 41: Close-up of White Peppered Moray Eel. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 42: Moorish Idol during a night dive. Dive site: Pipe Fish City

Clip 43: Coral formation with hard and soft corals. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 44: Bicolored Toby (Canthigaster Smithae) Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 45: Wreck covered in coral with drifting divers including Alex from Sea Breeze Marine. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 46: Reef with Model Toby, Band Dot Goatfish, Chocolate Dips among others. Dive site: Big T-Wall

Clip 47: Bluespotted Ribbontail. Dive site: Pipe Fish City

Clip 48: Coral field with Hannes Potgieter from Sea Breeze Marine. Dive site: Shark North

Clip 49: Wreck covered in corals with Band Dot Goatfish and Surgeon fish. Dive site: Schlemmerstad Wreck

Clip 50: Red fish unable to ID, Silver Damsels. Dive site: Bongoyo Patches

Clip 51: Squids up close during night dive. Dive site: Pipe Fish City

Footage shot with a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder in an Ikelite Housing and two Bigblue VL2500P LED Video Lights.