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Underwater Photo Contest | Topside (above water but marine related)

4484 Entries Found: Page 86  of  167
shots above the surface. Can be on land but with relevance to the marine environment
THE WRECK AND THE DIVER SNORKELING
osprey eating parrot fish
Fisherman
water chalets, Maldives
This exhausted shrimp was trying to climb up one of the mooring ropes of our liveaboard one evening to get out of the current and away from predators... I'm sure it would have made a tasty meal for something if it lost its grip...
Iguana, dive boats, a morning full of promise... Bonaire
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2009

Final RoundThrough to 2009 awards final round judging

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There's always a topside shot to be had between, or before, dives!
time for a sunset dive in Similan!
shortlistedShortlisted!
some more hermits at Pavones, Costa Rica
Twin twisters
Birds
MY SON WAKEBORDING " BACKROLL"
Young future-diver with canoe in tow. The image was taken during a visit to the Russell Island group aboard Bilikiki.
An apnea diver contemplates what he is about to do. Morrison's Quarry, Quebec, Canada. Minolta x700 camera with 19mm Vivitar lens and Fuji 200 ASA film.

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a nicely composed shot that tells a story. You don't need to live by a coral reef to be an u/w photographer, but it helps!
Colombia - Cartagena
Baby Dock at Captain Don's Habitat, Bonaire. Footprints telling a tale...
Sullivan bay. Santiago. Galapagos. S5PRO, 18-200mm.
fiddler crab in mangrove swamp
"Big Blue Blues" On that day and the next 3, because of a cold front, the diving boats stayed beached...One of the DMs had just the right instrument to express everybody's feelings...
clear......clean.....water
Mexico - Playa del Carmen
Grand Bahamas West End.
crousing the sepic river in a doughout...
Incredible Maldives
Cape Verde - Isla do Sal - Boy fishing
Bixby bridge and Highway 1 coast, Big Sur, California.
Bahamas - Eluthera
Baby Humpback Whale called Houdini breaching at Johnstone Strait, Canada.
4484 Entries Found: Page 86  of  167