"It's real, it's true and it's great....good music and wonderful pictures"

Scuba Diver Magazine, Nov. - Dec. 1999

Pawel Achtel filming (35 mm still photo by Gavin Lill)

Award winner at New York International Film Festival 1999. (premiere)

2 Awards for Photography in International Wildlife Film Festival (Montana 2000)

Now available on and VIDEO

The sea, a great and green wilderness, eerie and luminous, a sunken kingdom of caverns and castles, of weed and spikes and sponges, and of the most exotic, bizarre, and enchanting creatures.

Yet the sea does not reveal its treasures easily. Pawel Achtel spent two years filming this remarkable documentary at ocean reefs around the Australian coastline, using special lighting and camera techniques to illuminate the captivating beauty of the Aliens of the Sea.

The perfect planes of the gliding Manta Ray, the rare and playful Australian Sea Lion, the respectable steely shark, the unique Sea Dragon, the dazzling colours of living coral. And unlike most underwater films, all of these remarkable species were filmed in their natural habitat.

The result is a triumph of colour and spectacle - the ultimate in underwater footage combines with a rich, melodic soundtrack in a sensory assault that washes over in waves. This is the sea as you have never experienced it before.

Producer: Pawel Achtel

Director: Michael Wooller and Pawel Achtel

Editor: Michael Wooller and Pawel Achtel

Underwater Photography: Pawel Achtel

Soundtrack composed by Gordon Reid, Engineered and Produced by Nick Magnus, All instruments played by Gordon Reid, except Drums and Percussion: Nick Magnus and Gordon Reid, Guitar: Clive Osborn

Narration: Tim Eliott

Script Writer: Andrew Ford

Sound: Michael Gissing (Digital City Studios)

Trip Consultant: Kevin Deacon (Dive 2000)

Duration: approx. 50 min