Liquidguru was created and is maintained by Kaj Maney.
I was lucky enough to have owned and operated my own Dive Centre in Ambon, Indonesia, together with my partner Barb Makohin. Unfortunately, due to COVID, we had to make the sad decision to close it down. The old Dive Into Ambon website is still there. Ambon is a world class destination for macro videography and photography.
Since working in Lembeh I have become fascinated with the underwater macro world. The incredible variety of species that live in high nutritional tropical areas is mind blowing. I have had the chance to film many rare creatures and this is where I share my work. I hope I will introduce the viewer to a completely unknown world and share my amazement for the truly bizarre and weird creatures that have hardly been seen before.
I was previously the Dive Operations Manager at Kungkungan Bay Resort (KBR) in Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
I spent eight and a half years working in the Caribbean, living in Roatan (Honduras), Dominica (Eastern Caribbean) and Belize (western Caribbean). I also spent two years in Tioman (Malaysia) and six months in Fiji.
Since getting the video bug in 2002, I have been working of archiving as much of the underwater world as possible.
Equipment used for filming:
Most of the critters I’ve filmed are with a Sony XR500 Camcorder. This is small enough to ge tinto places where bigger cameras can’t.
Housing: Light and Motion Stingray G2+ – bullet proof housing, giving me access to all video controls.
Lights: Light and Motion Sola 4000s
Lens: Light and Motion Super Macro Dry-Mount lens