Okinawa had its hottest September at 1.6C above the average. I filmed this mass coral bleaching last year, but didn't have the heart to share. Total annihilation of the first few meters of depth. This stuff happens before our eyes, and yet people who think it isn't real keep gaining power.

The footage quality is poor, but this is a rare Rhina ancylostoma, bowmouth guitarfish, seen in Oura Bay (Okinawa), where they are building a new US marine corps base. It's a type of ray. I've never seen one in the wild before!

Rain and rainbow

I was looking at the many orange sponges in area thinking 'it would be cool if one of these was a frogfish'. And one of them was.

An Octopus cyanea - when you are at your most beautiful when you are barely visible at all

A marbled stingray foraging at dusk, having come up from the deep as soon as the sun started to set

A sea elephant (heteropod) flapping its lazy way through the night. Something about the motion of its fin is weird and hypnotic.

A polychaete worm jives with a solitary dance number in the darkness

Among a dreamlike seascape of copepods and jellies, a rare heteropod (sea elephant)! Despite looking like the ghost a of a vengeful banana, with beady eyes and a long proboscis, they are a type of pelagic snail. Fin on its belly is its 'foot'.

A hypnotic flatworm flowing through the night

Bobtail squid (Eumandya parva) in the darkness, looking like it's ready to start a tiny, tiny fight with someone