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Anonymous Sea Creature Rising To The Surface Of Open (Baja California Sur, 2019)

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife Baja California Sur, Mexico 2019
No people visible. No identifiable people are visible in this clip. Commercial clearance still depends on the final use and any property shown.

About this clip

A mysterious sea creature rises to the surface of open waters at East Cape BCS, Mexico in 2019. The footage shows a dark shape breaking through the waves under natural daylight, creating a sense of wonder and discovery. The raw, unfiltered quality adds to its authenticity as a rare, amateur capture of marine life. Ideal for nature documentaries, oceanic storytelling, or abstract visual content exploring the unknown.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
A useful wildlife or ocean documentary insert for producers needing open water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with a small dark marine shape briefly visible at the surface.
Edit role
Use it as a short observational cutaway or mystery beat between wider ocean context and closer marine-life footage, since the clip holds on the horizon and surface activity for only a few seconds.
Visual details
The frames show open gray-blue ocean under hazy daylight, a level horizon, silver glare on the water, small white surface disturbances, a distant vessel-like speck, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The composition reads as aerial or elevated footage, with ocean filling the foreground and midground, a straight horizon across the upper frame, and the possible sea creature appearing as a small dark mark near the surface.

Tags

mysteriousoceananimalwaterwavesanonymousseacreaturerisingsurfaceopenwatersnatureeast cape BCS mexico DJIeastb-rollkindamateurintroduction

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
72 MB
Location
Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2019
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Open gray-blue water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with a level horizon, hazy sky, scattered sun glitter, a tiny distant speck near the horizon, and no visible people.
The opening frame gives editors a wide open-water context before the surface disturbance becomes clearer. (0:00)
A small dark shape breaks the gray-blue surface in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with bright water glare around it, a flat horizon behind it, and no visible people.
This frame contains the clearest small dark surface mark that suggests the anonymous sea creature described by the clip. (0:01)
The ocean surface in Baja California Sur, Mexico, fills the frame with a silver glare path, faint surface texture, a tiny distant vessel-like speck near the horizon, and no visible people.
The second moment keeps the scene wide, showing scale around the small surface activity in open water. (0:02)

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.