by Roger Roth
This 1 minute video was made as a promo video for Walindi Plantation in Papua New Guinea and has been seen all over the world. It tells an interesting story of two different species depending on each other — 2 inch long gobies and near-blind alpheid shrimp who share a burrow with them.
Roger Roth is a former science teacher and has been diving and filming underwater since 1988. He’s earned nine international gold medals for underwater video production and has authored dozens of educational videos for schools and educational outreach programs around the world. A partial client list for Roger includes the Discovery Channel, the U.S. Navy, the Nature Conservancy, Save the Manatee Club, Aggressor Fleet, Ltd., MV FeBrina and Walindi Plantation in PNG, Loloata and Tufi Dive Resorts in PNG, Peter Hughes’ Star Dancer, Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Futures Foundatio