Grow with the flow with twenty minutes of subtidal seaweed scenery beneath some super synthwaves by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio and cruise the kelpy coast of the North East Pacific from Alaska to Baja. Featuring kelp forests filmed by yours truly underwaterpat from near Glacier Bay National Park; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Salish Sea, Washington, USA; Port Orford, Oregon; Mendocino, Albion, Monterey Bay, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Carmel by the Sea, Santa Rosa Isand, Channel Islands, California, USA; Isla San Martin, San Quintin, Baja California Norte, and Bahia Magdalena, San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. There will giant kelp, bull kelp, dragon kelp, sea palm kelp, red algae, green algae, brown algae, as well as Mola mola ocean sunfish, harbor seals, rockfishes and surfperch in the mix. Phew that's a lot of keywords. Music: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Locations outside of California filmed with National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions. Camera: Mixture of Panasonic GH5 and Sony A1, 4k60fps and 4k120fps, mostly rectilinear wide angle 16-35mm lenses. Hey more keywording! Relax, chill, work, study, vibe, bop, whatever it is that you do, do it with this in the background. Or whatever, watch the dang thing or not, that's up to you! ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Help me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video YouTube Chapters: 00:00 Intro + Alaska 02:35 Salish Sea (BC + WA, Canada + USA) 05:03 Oregon 06:49 Northern California 10:08 Monterey Bay 16:00 Channel Islands 16:30 Baja California Norte, Mexico 19:34 Baja California Sur, Mexico Cruising The Kelpy Coast: Alaska To Baja California Underwater | 20 minutes +4K + Synthwave | Relaxocean

Go with the flow and enjoy the mindfulness only the brainless can deliver: Here's one hour of wild Pacific Coast jellyfishes swimming, filmed from Monterey Bay to Alaska by ya buoy underwaterpat. This next paragraph is here for YouTube's keywording around relaxation videos, so bear with me. I made this one to help with election stress and provide a chill vibe similar to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Jellyfish Sea Nettle Cam, except with their wild counterparts swimming in the open ocean. Slap this sucker up as a video wallpaper to decorate your productivity life as we endlessly circle the drain of creative burnout while finding something to fill the void and help us relax the mind while we study, work, and try to sleep through the modern scyphozoan bellscape. Featured in this video are 00:00 Pacific moon jellyfish (Aurelia labiata) 09:39 Brown sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) 20:11 Purple-striped sea nettles (Chrysaora colorata) 33:58 Northern sea nettle (Chrysaora melanaster) 35:23 Egg-yolk jellyfish (Phacellophora camtschatica) 45:55 Pacific lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea ferruginea) (Note that it does not feature Aurelia aurita nor Cyanea capillata for tho they are included here for craven search optimizocean reasons, those are Atlantic species, and there is some taxonomic confusion over what species is what. These jellyfish were all filmed from Monterey Bay, California to South East Alaska via British Columbia.) These are all (save one at the end!) Scyphozoan medusae in the phylum Cnidaria. I call them jellyfish because that's what people know them as, though there are many different types of gelatinous zooplankton that are *not* jellyfish as these are. They're not fish, yes, but "sea jellies" then includes siphonophores, salps, pteropods, larvaceans... It's not more precise, and people know the bloop bloop as "jellyfish" so that's what I'm using. ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Help me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon One Hour Of Wild Pacific Jellyfish Swimming | Relax, Study, Chill, Vibe | 4K + Ambient Music Music: Open Water by Serius Music (premiumbeat.com) License: YXDGSANRHBJOK1SF

Dive into the anchovy mayhem that has been the Monterey Bay the last many months! A bajillion million sea lions, pelicans, gulls, seals (and off shore, the hordes of humpback whales) have all come in to feast on the infinite schools. In their wake, the anchovies have left a lot of poop that seems to be creating an anoxic zone, resulting in quite a few stressed out, passed out fishes-including a rare prickleback species that became a first on iNaturalist! Enjoy this dive filled with octopuses, starfish, crabs, shrimp, eel grass, nudibranchs and more-Del Monte Beach is an amazing dive site and the wharf is without pier for critter coolness! Thanks for watching! Best fishes, Pat ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Help me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your Nudibranch Calendar and DiveMola stickers here: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon YouTube Chapters: 00:00 Introdocean 08:53 Dive Starts! 10:00 Passed Out Fishes 11:34 1st Octopus 15:28 2nd Octopus 19:50 New Prickleback Just Dropped! 25:10 Miscellany and HUGE stars 29:44 3rd and 4th Octopuses 31:30: More Miscellany and Huge Stars 36:18 Eel Grass Bed 39:14 5th and 6th Octopuses 40:33 Skydiving Shrimp and Anchovy Graveyard 44:25 To The Bait Ball 51:37 Begin Journey Home 58:12 Conclusions and Plugs 59:30 Epilogue and Seastar Wasting

When seaside curiosity begs for a deeper dive, beware the Seasyphian itch that comes with scratching beneath the surface: ? - ! - ? ? Please enjoy my silly little skit filmed and edited in 36 hours during the 2024 Backscatter Monterey Shootout photo video contest. This underwater photography contest is the highlight of my year every time that it has run, and after a five year hiatus, I'm thrilled that it's back bay-be!! I'm stoked that this submission was given an honorable mention in the video montage category-as long as the video gets played in the auditorium to all the contestants, I feel like I've won the whole shaboodle. Congrats to the ever-inspiring Kate Vylet for her winning showcase: https://www.katevylet.com/A-Tale-of-Two-Timescapes/n-frz4j8 Congrats to my good buddy Phil for his 2nd place podium spot of a video we've talked about for years, so glad it's finally out there: https://youtu.be/oztu4iwUzpQ?si=osS2NmxWMRHm1ayQ Congrats to all the other submissions, and until next year! Music: New Travels by Allegory Music (premiumbeat.com) ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Kelp support the channel: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Bamboo Reef Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon

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GPOmg! On a deeper SCUBA dive into the canyon at Monastery Beach to sealebrate my 35th lap of the sunfish, sweet momma Ocean gifted me with my first Monterey Bay giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)! Also featuring canary rockfish, rosy rockfish, crowned sea urchins, nudibranchs, giant kelp, comb jellies, egg-yolk jellyfishes, and other keywords! All species from the dive here: https://rb.gy/xgv8b5 ___ Help me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Prints! Stickers! Merch! https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Leslie D Jared Pagett Katrina Britt Brandon Huelga George Tall Michael Civiello Ariel Towber Connor Vance Michael Esgro Anne-Marie Alden Kim Conway Mike Chamberlain Pike Spector Jon McCormack Ali Hough Emily Simpson Shervin Hess Jesse Junni Thitichai Kangwal Andy G. Tricia Chambers Brandon Zink (@BZunderwater) Zeta Clairikine Leah Hanley YouTube Chapters: 00:00 Squeaky Clean Introdocean 00:40 Dive One 01:00 Fishy Friends and Deeper Rockfishes 02:45 Echinodermatology 03:54 My Giant Pacific Octopus Creeper 06:09 Dive Two 06:39 Eggscitement 07:33 Comb Over Here And Check This Out 08:05 Return Of The King #octopus #scubadiving #underwaterphotography

It's been six years since Monterey Bay last had a *documented* sunflower starfish sighting, but recently, rumors have spread of a few Pycnopodia helianthoides bb's recruiting to Oregonian reefs and even here in my California backyard. So last week we went for a midnight dive at the Breakwater to see about finding us a Seasquatch.... Spoiler: None were found, but we did have a bioluminescent plankton bloom, sailfin sculpins, bocaccio rockfish, heart crabs, umbrella crabs, a teeeeeeeny tiny octopus, and a thornback ray! Always a good time divingThanks to everyone who showed up! More Pycno patrols to come!! Thanks for watching. ___ Kelp me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: jon, anthony, brandon, gary, katrina, kim, meredith, mike c, shervin, tomas, ali, anne-marie, ariel, brent, connor, emily, george, liza, mike e, mike ch, pike, col + tris, warren, ashley, james, andy, brandon, clr, greg, leah, thitichai, tricia, zeta, carra, kam YouTube Chapters: 00:00 Introdocean 01:28 Pycno Patrol Background 04:36 Dive Start 13:19 Dive End

Ain't nothing better for the Kelp Kultists than a perfect viz SCUBA dive at good ol' Monterey Breakwater. The subtidal playing field just offshore of San Carlos Beach at the end of Cannery Row is the perhaps THE most-dove site in all of California-countless dive careers have been launched through the Coastguard Jetty's kelp forests and magical reefs. And though some may poopoo the Breakwater for its ease of access, when conditions are good, it has some of the best diving in all of Monterey Bay, from the menagerie of nudibranchs, diversity of fish assemblages, charismatic megafauna in seals, sea lions and sea otters-and of course, the kelp kathedrals themselves. Today was just such a day, and with glorious gelatinous goober beings to boot! Jellyfish fans, drift this way! Thanks all for your patience with the upload schedule here you all-been working through lots of technical and creative difficulties. The audio in this episode couldn't be healed like the other two, so hopefully it's not too harsh and abrasive. We've got a fix for future eps! Much love to you all fronds and anemones, I hope to be seaing you again very soon here on the feed! Best starfishes, Pat ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Kelp me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your calendars, DiveMola stickers and UWP merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: jon, anthony, brandon, gary, katrina, kim, meredith, mike c, shervin, tomas, ali, anne-marie, ariel, brent, connor, emily, george, liza, mike e, mike ch, pike, col + tris, warren, ashley, james, andy, brandon, clr, greg, leah, thitichai, tricia, zeta, carra, kam YouTube Chapters: 0:00 Introdocean 8:50 Dive Begins! 11:28 Chilling with the Lingcod 14:31 Into the Understory Glory 20:40 Anemone Photoshoot 25:42 God Rays 30:00 Misc Ramblings 38:52 Anemone + Starfish 41:16 Appreseaoceans 42:10 Clownin' Around 45:00 Art Deco Crabs + Sidegills 48:00 Shallow Blows 51:00 Potential Wasting Starfish 52:31 Moon Jelly! 54:45 Sea Nettle! 1:00:35 Shouts Out 1:03:47 More Spice 1:05:50 Dive Done! #vlog #scubadiving #underwaterphotography

Swim with me through a Monterey Bay kelp forest for seven and a half minutes, filmed yesterday at Monastery Beach around 3PM. My other relaxocean video seems to have gotten equal parts horror and awe in the reactions so, may this video either soothe or spook :P Filmed with: Sony A1, Nauticam NA-A1 Housing Sony 16-35mm F4.0 power zoom lens @ F9.0 Ambient light, ISO 1600 4k 120fps down to 60fps for YouTube Dive Site: North Monastery Beach: https://goo.gl/maps/tUFQs91fKXG9TpFp7 ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Sea store by the sea shore: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon Help me kelp you: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Word stuff for the shell of it: Relax, chill, ocean therapy, ambient, underwater, screensaver, ocean, wild

Whale hey there fronds and anemones! T'was an eggstraordinary dive that day last September at Monastery Beach-join ya buoy underwaterpat for a shellebrocean of a dive with egg yolk jellies in Monterey Bay! Monastery Beach has some of the best shore diving in all of California, thanks to a finger of the Carmel Canyon (an offshoot of the Monterey Submarine Canyon further offshore) that funnels ocean swell and deep water directly to this infamous stretch of coast. 100 yards from shore, a SCUBA diver finds themselves just beyond a wash rock surrounded by an algal amphitheater that I like to call "The Kelp Kathedral". Nestled in its pews are schools of blue rockfish, awesome anemones, colorful critters-and sometimes, glorious gelatinous drifters like these egg yolk jellyfishes (Phacellophora camtschatica) caught up in the current events of that year. This was one of my favroite dives of last year, and I'm so thrilled to be sharing it with you all now! Heads up-Monastery has a reputation, and for good reason. It's a powerful beach, and not to be taken lightly. I can't tell you what's right for you but, I live 15 minutes away, so I can pick my days and I don't ever feel a need to commit to anything sketchy with that beach. I can always come back. Be careful, seek training, be honest with yourself, practice your skills, don't test your luck, and respect the ocean, always-and when the time is right, may Monastery be as giving to you as it has been to me for the last 15 years. Thanks y'all, I hope you enjoy the ep! Best sunfishes, Pat ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Kelp yourself to an extended cut here: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Stan the man for the audio sweetening Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon YouTube Chapters: 0:00 Introdocean 1:30 Dive Start + Shallow Kelp Forest 7:35 The Eggscitement Begins! 13:00 Reef Critts To The Drop 19:28 The Eggstravaganza Continues 23:00 The Journey Home 25:14 The Magic Of The Mundane 28:00 Shallow Seanery 28:41 Conclocean 30:08 Plugs Monastery Beach Eggstravaganza! | THE DIVE VLOG - EP 02 | Monterey Bay Underwater Vlogging

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Whale hey there fronds and anemones, it's ya buoy @underwaterpat. Be shore to like and sub-scribe to this here feed to dive into the Inner Space of Planet Ocean. Tanks for stopping by, and be seaing you around! Best sunfishes, Pat. More Pat: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat ___ Oh and here are some keywords, like vlogging underwater scuba diving monterey bay kelp forests A Channel Introdocean From Ya Buoy @underwaterpat

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Whale hey there fronds and anemones, it's ya buoy @underwaterpat! Good to sea you here. This here is the first episode of The Dive Vlog, a thorough overcomplication of my favorite thing in the world: Diving and underwater photographing in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay, California. Having just quit my job at the Monterey Bay Aquarium earlier in the year to pursue my underwater photography career in earnest, I ventured out at San Carlos Beach in Monterey with a few GoPros, hefty credit card bills and a dream. It's taken me some time to get the emotional bandwidth necessary to get to the editing, but I'm planning to have these episodes come out every couple weeks here. Let me know what you think! ___ Make shore to like and sub-scribe and comment for the algal rhythm! Kelp yourself to an extended cut here: https://patreon.com/underwaterpat Get your DiveMola stickers and merch: https://divemola.com Want to license some video or order photo prints? underwaterpat at gmail dot com Pat's peripheral posting places: https://linktr.ee/underwaterpat Special thanks to: SCUBAPRO Light And Motion Dive Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video Stan the man for the audio sweetening Shoutout to my underwaterPatrons: Emily, Anne-Marie, Ariel, Ali, Michael, Mike Civ, Shervin, Pike, Leah, Connor, Kim, Mike, and Jon YouTube Chapters: 0:00 - Introdocean 2:37 - Dive Start 6:16 - Becoming a Melibelieber 11:52 - Metridium Pipe Dreams 14:38 - RIP Mola buddy 17:34 - Safety Stop 19:50 - Outrodocean Metridiummy Melibe Mine | THE DIVE VLOG - EP 01 | Underwater Vlogging in Monterey Bay

Winter in Monterey Bay brings some of its best conditions-well, at least in terms of visibility! With 2021's nonstop mega-swells and the early evening darkness, the underwater photographer must jump at any window in the forecast to get their gills wet. Check out the cool critters I saw on a calm night dive between the storms at the Monterey Breakwater this weekend! Of Note: Red octopuses have been common this year, especially at night. Whiskers the famous harbor seal is back after a long hiatus! Tritonia exulans nudibranch sea slugs are around and cruising the sea pen beds. Market squid are inshore and breeding! Moon jellies and salps represented the planktonic community very well. Many kelp holdfasts have been ripped out by the sell and are lumbering around the breakwater eddie. What a great night! Music: LoFi Piano Background - cleanmindsounds Audiojungle.com Subscribe! (if you want to no worries): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM5q1XHkIgVm0rG5biqbGMQ?sub_confirmation=1 Thanks to all of you underwaterPatrons that support my work: Carra O'Neal Michael Esgro Anne-Marie Alden Tomas Grim Kim Conway Mike Chamberlain Pike Spector Jon McCormack Kam Ali Hough Emily Simpson Shervin Hess Tristin and Colin McHugh Gary Gardner Connor Vance Ariel Towber https://www.patreon.com/underwaterpat My Social Links: https://instagram.com/underwaterpat https://twitter.com/underwaterpat https://twitch.tv/underwaterpat https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJKS7yEW/ Licensing: underwaterpat@gmail.com Filmed with: Panasonic GH5 + Nauticam NA-GH5 housing Panasonic 12-35mm lens @12mm Light and Motion Sola Video Pro 15k x2 4k 60fps, f.5 iso 400 Dive Site: San Carlos Beach, Brekwater Wall #10: https://goo.gl/maps/tUFQs91fKXG9TpFp7 48ft max depth 60min 12-22-21, 8PM a breakwater night | Night Dive In Monterey Bay

This past weekend was as good as it gets in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay-ocean sunfish (Mola mola) patrolling the dropoffs, rockfish schools lazily hiding among the columns of the kelp cathedral, millions of pyrosomes washing up with the currents among the other jellies; and all of it bathed in the clear jade-blue waters of coastal California at its best. With everything going on in the world, I figured I'd throw together a long-form video of the highlights. There's no music, just me breathing-though, as a photographer, I'm using my breathing as buoyancy, so it may or may not be very relaxing. If it is, great! If not, mute this video and play some more fitting music alongside. Enjoy! Subscribe! (if you want to no worries): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM5q1XHkIgVm0rG5biqbGMQ?sub_confirmation=1 Support: https://www.patreon.com/underwaterpat Thanks to all of you underwaterPatrons that support my work: Model Warren Carra O'Neal Michael Esgro Anne-Marie Alden Tomas Grim Kim Conway Mike Chamberlain Pike Spector Jon McCormack Kam Ali Hough Emily Simpson Shervin Hess Tristin and Colin McHugh My Social Links: https://instagram.com/underwaterpat https://twitter.com/underwaterpat Licensing: underwaterpat@gmail.com Filmed with: Panasonic GH5 + Nauticam NA-GH5 housing Panasonic 7-14mm lens Light and Motion Sola Video Pro 15k x2 4k 60fps Dive Site: North Monastery Beach: https://goo.gl/maps/tUFQs91fKXG9TpFp7

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