natgeo Photo by @laurentballesta| This « bullet time shot » allowed us to distinguish how the sharks hunt in pairs. If the first shark fails to catch the prey, the scared fish ends up in the the second jaw in ambush. This video technique, mostly known in action and Syfy movies, has been applied for the first time to UW wildlife during the GOMBESSA IV Expedition. My team and I imagined and built « The Arch of Image », a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized GoPro cameras. The goal of a « bullet time shot » is to freeze the image and turn around the frozen scene. This scene is visible among many others in our film « 700 sharks into the dark » -
Excerpt from 700 Sharks Into The Dark, a film directed by Luc Marescot. Produced by Arte, Le Cinquième Rêve, Andromède Océanologie, Les Gens Bien Production, Filmin Tahiti and CNRS Images.
Kryptopterus vitreolus, known in the aquarium trade traditionally as the glass catfish and also as the ghost catfish or phantom catfish, is a small species of Asian glass catfish. It is endemic to Thailand, where found in rivers south of the Isthmus of Kra that drain into the Gulf of Thailand and river basins in the Cardamom Mountains.