Underwater Photo Location: Ari Atoll

by Daniel Petitmermet
I just love the colours of it

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by Daniel Strub
Rhincodon typus :-D

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by Hamid Rad
True colorZ - Anemone detail, Fesdu Maaha, Maldives.

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by Hamid Rad
Late afternoon light - Fesdu house reef, Maldives. Canon G9 / Ikelite housing & wide angle lens.

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by Daniel Petitmermet
Face to face with a platax

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by Vladimir Levantovsky
A rising star. This was an experiment trying to balance three different light sources - ambient light, a model with the torch and a single strobe illuminating a giant whip coral and the model's face. Canon T1i in Ikelite housing with DS-125 strobe.

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by Vladimir Levantovsky
One very hungry manta during night time feeding frenzy. Canon T1i with Tokina 10-17mm fisheye lens in Ikelite housing with DS-125 strobe.

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by Vladimir Levantovsky
Manta ray during night time feeding in plankton-reach water. Canon T1i with Tokina 10-17mm fisheye in Ikelite housing with DS-125 strobe.

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by Pieter Roos
we where diving and suddenly very unusual a group of around 50 spinners came and played in front of us for over 10 minutes

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by Pieter Roos
Giant Manta, passing by

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by Daniel Strub
Whale shark :-D

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by Bruno Van Saen
A little kiss on my sweet lips?

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
The flame

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by Daniel Wernli
Don't stare at me like that, I'm shy!

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
leopard murena enjoying the photo

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by Daniel Strub
Portrait of a Napoleon Wrasse :-D

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by Daniel Wernli
Profile in red

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
sunset at reef

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
brave clownfish

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
red and blue

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
batfishes at morning

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by Paul Ng
Dare Devil Cleaning wrasse!

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by Brian Naylor
just another nudie

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by Daniel Wernli
I'm angry

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by Daniel Wernli
Don't come too close to me, I'm watching you!

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by Hamid Rad
Icarus - Viligilee, Maldives

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by Brian Naylor
drifting into the lagoon on a clear day, looking up from 35m waiting for everyone to join me

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by Brian Naylor
Like the Stelth Bomber

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by Hamid Rad
Family business....

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
Watching you

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by Daniel Strub
feeding porcelain crab :-D

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
Fish faces

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
love frenzy at Ari atoll

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
snoot morey

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
HUNTING

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
curious anemone fish

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
snorkeling feeling

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
sunset aboard

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by Paul Ng
The Bornella!

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by Tom Brumback
Urchin ouch.

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by Fabio Strazzi
Ari South, Maldives 2011. Panasonic GF1, macro Leica 45mm, 10bar Housing S&S YS 90 and 120

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by Jonathan Sala
Bath Fish..

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by Jonathan Sala
leafe fish..

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by Fabrice Leroy
Damsel fish hiding in acropora

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by Fabrice Leroy
Divers around the table

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by Fabrice Leroy
tokina 10/17 160 f/10

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
deep dive with fierce current

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
starry night

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by Anthony Smith
What do u want from me?....

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by Erik Van Doesburg
Olympus Pen1 with Magic Filter. (Undulate) triggerfish swimming in about 12m (40ft) water on the reefs of the Maldives.

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by Erik Van Doesburg
Always wanted to capture a fish yawning and finally succeeded!

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by Erik Van Doesburg
Rather pleased with the result, but can anybody tell me what kind of fish this is? Thnx :)

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by Marchione Giacomo
The Flower Nikon D200, 12-24 zoom Nikon twin strobo Maldivian sea. Ari Atoll

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
THE SINGING CLOWN

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by Sergey Totsky
manta is coming

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by Sergey Totsky
Mooray

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by Cat Briggs
Bearded moray (& friends) Canon S95 in ilkelite housing, camera flash (no strobe)

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by Cat Briggs
smile for the camera (no strobe, camera flash)

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by Jonathan Sala
go go furia

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by Mariano Mañas
Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides (Labios dulces)

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by Hamid Rad
The Office. North Ari atoll

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by Fabio Strazzi
Anemone's cocktail

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by Yoav Lavi
Wire coral shrimp

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by Julio Sanjuan
Manta above the bubles of divers, Nikon D70, 10mm, 2 Inon Strobes

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by Julio Sanjuan
Blenidodei in the coral. Nikon D70, 105 macro

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by Yoav Lavi
Maldivian sunset

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by Julio Sanjuan
My son Julio, meeting with a whale shark in Maldives.

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by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Pregnant Nurse Shark

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by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Dancing Shrimp

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by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Eyes

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by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Lyretail Anthia

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by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Grey Reef Shark

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by Julio Sanjuan
Angelfish

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by Julio Sanjuan
Clam's colors

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by Robin Nagy
Grey Reef Shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos "wheeleri". I was trying to change the contrast of the original photo and stumbled across contour lines which gave it a 'grainy' effect. I liked the confronting/ironic effect of a soft pink shark.

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by Julio Sanjuan
Lionfish in a Wreck

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by Petteri Viljakainen
House reef split

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by Julio Sanjuan
Glasseye fish and divers

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by Iñaki Alcalde
Nurse shark at maldives

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by Dmitry Starostenkov
Snorkelers are chasing the whale shark at the waters of Ari Atoll, Maldives.

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by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
maldives clown

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by Francis Lau
I love Manta ...

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by Sean Chinn
Reflection. Taken at night from a snorkelling position at the back of my live aboard boat. We had a light to attract plankton which then would attract Manta Rays. Manta Rays turned up but not long enough to dive but I got in the water with one

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by Adam Hew
Night dive at Alimatha Maldives, a lot of huge nurse sharks, marble rays.

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by Anthony Smith
Her Majsety

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by Bradley Kerslake
Young hope

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by Rasmus Raahauge
Casa Mia from another perspective

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by David Rapley
An opportunity to take a second to see the buddy system in action along the reef!!!

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by David Rapley
Gold spotted flat worm

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by Goran Butajla
playing with the sunset

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by Rasmus Raahauge
In the north Ari Atoll small stingrays came close to shore, an excellent opportunity for practicing over-under shots

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by Miguel Pereira
Anemone fish

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by Kerri Keet
I found the trumpet fish posing under an overhang. I have yet to find one that isn't posing!

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by William Van Ruiten
Anemonefish

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by Tracey Jennings
Nemo

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by Tracey Jennings
Does poo count as a behaviour shot ?

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by Tracey Jennings
jacks

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by Tracey Jennings
manta

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by Tracey Jennings
Star Wars ..

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by Tracey Jennings
Manta with fusiliers

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by Deniz Muzaffer Gökmen
ı am passing on

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by Deniz Muzaffer Gökmen
When the documantary shooting

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by Tom Burd
This photo was taken on a house reef in the Maldives, in an attempt contrast the beauty at the surface and the devastation of the coral bleaching below. It's hopefully an alarming, appealing and educational photo at the same time.

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by Tim Steenssens
Divers use a boat. The light of the boat attracts plankton. The plankton attracts manta rays. Manta rays attract divers. So things have come full circle.

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by Deniz Muzaffer Gökmen
Manta Ray in Maldives

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by Conor Culver
All In a Line

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by Conor Culver
Massive school of snapper up close

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by Conor Culver
Two Mantas

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by Conor Culver
"Bat Fish Night" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. This image is referencing their common name: the Bat Fish.

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by Conor Culver
"Snapper Fall" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. The massive school of these blue stripped snapper resembled the changing leaves of fall.

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by Lars Oliver Michaelis
grey reefsharks @ maldives

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by Margriet Tilstra
Flying Carpet. Giant Manta Ray, Ari Atoll, Maldives. Nikon D80 with Ikelite housing and two Ikelite strobes. Tamron 17-50mm (focal lenght 22 mm), ISO 100, f/6.3, 1/80.

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by Marloes Otten
What does a manta ray eat? Well...this... Krill. A manta ray is feasting on the krill gathering in the lightbeams of divelights during a nightdive.

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by Owen Palmer
While drift diving a shallow reef, this 2 meter Honeycomb Moray Eel came out of a crevasse near South Ari Atoll, Maldives.

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by Alexis Smith
“Midnight snack” Two whale sharks feeding at night at the back of a boat in the maldives

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by Jeffrey Lim
Manta cruising over a school of blue striped snappers

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