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Tu prenais du plaisir A faire des ronds dans l'eau... ;=)
By Bonduel Tanguy
posted Friday, December 02, 2011
137 votes

Spanish Shawl Nudibranch at Point Dume, Malibu.
By Sevag Mehterian
posted Tuesday, December 20, 2011
114 votes

Nautilus pompilius. Taken at LIFOU island, New Caledonia, in night dive. Very rare prehistorycal animal who lives very deep, so i had a chance to meet it
By Antonio Pastorelli
posted Monday, March 17, 2008
93 votes

Inspired by nearby competition, this male humpback put some serious power into this series of forward lunges. In 7 years of whale watching, I had never seen a lunge like this from this angle. Taken with a canon 350d and 70-300 lens.
By Tyania Diffin
posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006
92 votes

SHARKS
By Pedro L Burguera
posted Friday, January 25, 2008
91 votes

Overwater Bungalows-Moorea
By Frank Greco
posted Thursday, June 07, 2007
88 votes

This image was taken in Guadalupe Islanda in October 2008 using a Nikonos RS with a 20-35mm lens. THs film I used was Fuji Velvia 100 speed, f8 at approximately 125. Color corrected in photoshop CS.
By Steven Kl Smith
posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008
84 votes

Green Sea Turtle, South Kohala Coast, Hawaii - 2007 AUG 06
By Gus Saldana
posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007
82 votes

Red Eye Frog Costa Rica
By Doris Vierkoetter
posted Friday, October 28, 2011
82 votes

Ship wreck off Orchid Island, Taiwan.
By Steve Kuo
posted Thursday, December 28, 2006
81 votes
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Wonderful dive in Fakarava lagoon, south pass in the Tuam... by Adam Kerner
Wonderful dive in Fakarava lagoon, south pass in the Tuamotus. White tips, black tips and gray sharks everywhere, literally 100's, all around. We did 2 dives and 9 snorkel runs on incoming tides over a 10 day period, and never got tired of it!
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Hope by Matthew Fischbach
Hope
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Aircraft parts in one of the Fujikawa Marus cargo holds. by Wolfgang Zwicknagl
Aircraft parts in one of the Fujikawa Marus cargo holds.
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Slipper Lobster at night in Hawaii by Marc Wiseman
Slipper Lobster at night in Hawaii
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Guerrero, México. Swimming Ray under the waves at Ixtapa. by Christian Vizl
Guerrero, México. Swimming Ray under the waves at Ixtapa.
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Hawaiian Monk seal and Sandbar Shark swimming through a g... by Michael Matzinger
Hawaiian Monk seal and Sandbar Shark swimming through a gap at Lehua rock
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Blenny in the dark, Acapulco Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Blenny in the dark, Acapulco Mexico
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I took this image off Catalina Island, California. It's ... by Janice Carter
I took this image off Catalina Island, California. It's a spanish shawl nudibranch that just decided to pose cute for me.
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Tiny tiny worm. by Pat Gunderson
Tiny tiny worm.
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A rare day of amazing visability and clarity in the emera... by Marc Damant
A rare day of amazing visability and clarity in the emerald waters of British Columbia Canada
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it's my fish-lunch, please!!! by Jonathan Sala
it's my fish-lunch, please!!!
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A face only a mother could love, although one of the worl... by Beat J Korner
A face only a mother could love, although one of the world's fastest prey catching creatures - Commerson's Frogfish!
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The Hawaiian squid turns into flamboyant art after darkne... by Beat J Korner
The Hawaiian squid turns into flamboyant art after darkness and change their skin color by every move.
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A beautiful sponge in a very silty harbour by Daniel Poloha
A beautiful sponge in a very silty harbour
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Arrow Crab, Acapulco Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Arrow Crab, Acapulco Mexico
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The Arch of Darwin, Galapagos Ecuador by Alejandro Topete
The Arch of Darwin, Galapagos Ecuador
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Anemones in a lava cave by Bill Arle
Anemones in a lava cave
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hard coral abstract by Leena Roy
hard coral abstract
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Those Thornback Cowfish are often hard to spot but once y... by Beat J Korner
Those Thornback Cowfish are often hard to spot but once you get close to them they amuse me with their 'frozen' face expression.
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One single jelly shot several times, croped and assembled... by Wolfgang Zwicknagl
One single jelly shot several times, croped and assembled into one Jellyfish Panorama.
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Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Great White Shark swimming among ... by Christian Vizl
Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Great White Shark swimming among fishes.
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Fan coral by Leena Roy
Fan coral
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Limber Violet gilled nudibranch negotiating rough terrain by Ralph Turre
Limber Violet gilled nudibranch negotiating rough terrain
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Porcelain Crab by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Porcelain Crab
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A little lunch perhaps. Dendronotus subramosus by Pat Gunderson
A little lunch perhaps. Dendronotus subramosus
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Female Blue Shark, taken freediving in San Pedro channel ... by Eric Addicott
Female Blue Shark, taken freediving in San Pedro channel near Catalina Island, Sony RX100 with single strobe.
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Simply a Pacific Sand Lance by Pat Gunderson
Simply a Pacific Sand Lance
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