From Nudibranchs to Whale Sharks | Diving in Mafia Island | Chole Bay Tanzania 2021 | 4K-Video

Spectacular diving in the Mafia Island Marine Park in Tanzania. Mafia island is located in the Western Indian Ocean, south of Zanzibar and Pemba. Together with our excellent guide from Mafia Island Diving we had many exciting sightings, from the smallest critters to biggest fish in the ocean. We encountered over 50 different species of nudibranchs, marine flattworms and sap-sucking seaslugs.

Welcome to our dive trip safari to Tanzania to the Mafia Island National Marine Park in December 2021. We stayed two weeks at the beautiful Pole Pole Bungalows. We would like to thank our amazing dive guide and all the wonderful people from Mafia Island Diving for this outstanding diving experience.

For animal identification please refer to the video subtitle or to the species list below.

With best regards,
Sandra and Markus
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List of species in order of appearance:
01:10 Golden sweeper
01:18 Goldbelly cardinalfish
01:23 Blue green damselfish
01:27 Scalefin anthias
01:35 Cloudy dascyllus and palette surgeonfish
02:59 Skunk anemonefish
03:07 Longfin bannerfish and black-spotted sweetlips
03:15 Blotcheye soldierfish
03:23 Fusilier damselfish and scalefin anthias
03:32 Double-spotted queenfish
03:52 Coconut octopus
04:01 Juvenile peacock razorfish
04:10 Oxynoe viridis
04:19 Costasiella sp.
04:27 Tiny Costasiella kuroshimae
04:36 Ardeadoris avernii
04:45 Cycloporus venetus
04:56 Painted frogfish
05:13 Elysia sp.
05:22 Elysia pusilla
05:33 Goniobranchus geminus
05:51 Noumeaella rehderi
06:10 Réunion seahorse
06:47 Bludger trevally
06:56 Oriental flying gurnard
07:04 Elysia sp.
07:13 Elysia marginata
07:24 Sagaminopteron psychedelicum
07:32 Dermatobranchus sp.
07:42 Hypselodoris maridadilus
07:50 Dermatobranchus sp. with mysid shrimp
08:01 Glossodoris pallida
08:14 Juvenile zebra lionfish
08:20 Aplysia parvula
08:38 Tiny painted frogfish
08:43 Doriprismatica plumbea
08:56 Elysia marginata
09:04 Placida cf. kevinleei
09:11 Pteraeolidia semperi
09:32 Bluestripe snapper and bengal snapper
10:18 Longfin bannerfish
10:35 Crown squirrelfish below
10:44 Giant grouper with juvenile golden trevally
10:56 Hawksbill turtle
11:04 Blotcheye soldierfish
11:12 Golden sweeper
11:17 Black-spotted sweetlips
11:25 Blotcheye soldierfish
11:34 African sweeper
11:50 Striped large-eye bream
11:59 Silver sweetlips
13:03 Halgerda toliara
13:10 Taringa caudata
13:17 Halgerda tessellata
13:24 Trapania sp.
13:32 Taringa caudata
13:39 Sagaminopteron psychedelicum
13:46 Maritigrella markranica
13:53 Goniobranchus conchyliatus
14:00 Trapania sp.
14:16 Euryleptid sp.
14:30 Hypselodoris maculosa
14:36 Paradoris sp.
14:44 Pseudobiceros sp.
14:58 Halgerda formosa
15:05 Halgerda wasiniensis
15:13 Robust ghost pipefish
15:27 Pipefish (Corythoichthys insularis)
15:42 Thuridilla gracilis
15:48 Pseudoceros lindae
15:57 Juvenile peacock razorfish
16:11 Robust ghost pipefish
16:25 Thuridilla gracilis
16:32 Pseudoceros ferrugineus
16:40 Pseudoceros bifurcus
16:46 Nymphozoon orsaki
16:54 Thuridilla virgata
17:01 Colpodaspis thompsoni
17:38 Whale shark
19:22 Nembrotha lineolata
19:30 Tambja olivaria
19:37 Nembrotha aurea
19:46 Tambja affinis
19:52 Gymnodoris sp.
20:10 Nembrotha mullineri
20:16 Cuthona sp.
20:21 Flabellina exoptata
20:34 Nembrotha milleri
20:46 Chromodoris boucheti
20:58 Chromodoris elisabethina
21:10 Chelidonura punctata
21:33 Ornate spiny lobster
21:44 Bearded scorpionfish
21:52 Juvenile starry dragonet
21:58 Indian lionfish
22:02 Blackcheek moray
22:07 Yellow-edged moray
22:12 Laced moray
22:23 Pink whipray
22:31 Blue-spotted stingray
22:36 Black-spotted torpedo
22:43 Juvenile emperor angelfish
22:53 Pink whipray
23:05 White-spotted hermit crab
23:12 Red claw cuapetes shrimp
23:16 Dancing shrimp
23:21 White-banded cleaner shrimp
23:27 Banded coral shrimp
23:33 Peacock-tail anemone shrimp
23:43 Longnose hawkfish
23:50 Tentacled flathead
24:02 Juvenile radiant wrasse
24:07 Juvenile exquisite wrasse
24:12 Juvenile queen cordis
24:17 Whitespotted boxfish
24:23 Spotted Sharpnose
24:35 Giant clam
24:43 Allard's Anemonenfish and juvenile three-spott Dascyllus
24:54 Leaf scorpionfish
25:14 Leopard flounder

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Chapters in this video:
00:00 Arriving at Mafia Island and first Dives
03:43 Sandy Bottom Critters
09:15 Schooling Fishs and outer Reef
12:19 Small, smaller, smallest
17:11 Snorkeling with Whale Sharks
18:55 Amazing Nudibranchs to discover
21:22 Fish Life in the Coral Reef

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🎵 Music used in this video:

Beach Breeze by JayJen & HHMR
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https://soundcloud.com/hhmr-music

Commercial Ambient by Hooksounds

Obsessed by Markvard https://soundcloud.com/markvard

Moments by Ikson https://soundcloud.com/ikson

Snowfall by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley

Heading Home by Nekzlo https://soundcloud.com/nekzlo

Colorful Dreams by Hooksounds

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Видео From Nudibranchs to Whale Sharks | Diving in Mafia Island | Chole Bay Tanzania 2021 | 4K-Video канала Sandra & Markus Trachsel