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Gotchaaa: Pygmy squid and it's prey. by Joerg Blessing
Gotchaaa: Pygmy squid and it's prey.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Mantas that twirl to convey the plankton into their mouth... by Marchione Giacomo
Mantas that twirl to convey the plankton into their mouth. Almost like a dance. Nikon D800E , 17/35mm , no strobo
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Hanifaru bay and the mantas ray by Marchione Giacomo
Hanifaru bay and the mantas ray
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date posted posted: Friday, October 11, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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"Snapper Fall" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of w... 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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date posted posted: Thursday, October 10, 2019
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Behind a fish curtain Dharavandhoo island Maldive by Marchione Giacomo
Behind a fish curtain
Dharavandhoo island Maldive
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 3, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Manta biristris. Hanifaru Bay , Maldives. Nikon D800E ,... by Marchione Giacomo
Manta biristris.
Hanifaru Bay , Maldives.
Nikon D800E , 17-35mm ,No strobo
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 21, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Manta biristris. Hanifaru Bay , Maldives. Nikon D800E ,... by Marchione Giacomo
Manta biristris.
Hanifaru Bay , Maldives.
Nikon D800E , 17-35mm ,No strobo
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 21, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Turtle eating its lunch. Tulamben Bali. by Athanassios Lazarides
Turtle eating its lunch. Tulamben Bali.
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date posted posted: Friday, September 20, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Dharavandhoo. Manta vision Atollo di Baa Nikon D800e , ... by Marchione Giacomo
Dharavandhoo. Manta vision
Atollo di Baa
Nikon D800e , 17-35mm Nikon
Strobo subtronic 160 pro.
ISO 200 ; f9 ; 1/500
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 19, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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File fish. Night dive Dharavandhoo divers ISO200 , F20... by Marchione Giacomo
File fish. Night dive Dharavandhoo divers
ISO200 , F20 , 1/125
Nikon D800E, 10,5mm fisheye lens in wide macro port .
Two strobo subtronic 160 pro
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Post dive manta session outside of Hanifaru Bay. by Joerg Blessing
Post dive manta session outside of Hanifaru Bay.
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 12, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Fused teeth plates of a parrotfish, taken on a night dive... by Joerg Blessing
Fused teeth plates of a parrotfish, taken on a night dive with red focus light.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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"Bat Fish Night" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of... 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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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2019
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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"Maldivian Orange Tree" part of my Underwater Surrealism ... by Conor Culver
"Maldivian Orange Tree" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. Image is playing off the bright orange color of the Maldivian Clownfish. Like most plants and trees, these fish are endemic, they are only found in the Maldives
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2019
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Hanifaru Bay Mantas by Joerg Blessing
Hanifaru Bay Mantas
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date posted posted: Monday, September 9, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Freediving with this little eagle ray was pretty fun! by Joerg Blessing
Freediving with this little eagle ray was pretty fun!
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Juvenile form of surgeon fishes,Juvenile Bristletooth sur... by Marchione Giacomo
Juvenile form of surgeon fishes,Juvenile Bristletooth surgeonfish. Baa atoll . Dharavandhoo
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Laguna di Hanufaru , manta feeding frenzly by Marchione Giacomo
Laguna di Hanufaru , manta feeding frenzly
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Juvenile Bristletooth surgeonfish were swarming Maldivian... by Joerg Blessing
Juvenile Bristletooth surgeonfish were swarming Maldivian reefs in the last weeks.
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 7, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Eagle ray hunting over sandy bottom by Joerg Blessing
Eagle ray hunting over sandy bottom
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 7, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Feeding frenzly, the mantas of the Hanifaru lagoon Baa at... by Marchione Giacomo
Feeding frenzly, the mantas of the Hanifaru lagoon Baa atoll, for a unique show . Pictures take during snorkelling witu housing Seacam , photocamera Nikon D800E , lens 17/35mm Nikon
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date posted posted: Friday, September 6, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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This was a nice postdive manta session. A dense patch of ... by Joerg Blessing
This was a nice postdive manta session. A dense patch of plankton outside of Hanifaru Bay attracted about 20 -30 mantas. Luckily I had a few bar left in my tank ;-)
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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I took this image with a Canon Powershot whilst freedivin... by Marcus De La Haye
I took this image with a Canon Powershot whilst freediving in the Maldives in February 2018. The waters surrounding this small island now host a huge population of stingrays and moray eels, because a tuna factory on the island discards tuna waste.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 2, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Posted this before as BW. Better in colour? by Joerg Blessing
Posted this before as BW. Better in colour?
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 24, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Field of flowers and spikes - flower urchin - Toxopneuste... by David Pleuvret
Field of flowers and spikes - flower urchin - Toxopneustes pileolus
Reunion Island TG3
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Leaf fish by David Pleuvret
Leaf fish
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 4, 2019
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Smile....Lizard fish waiting for his prey by David Pleuvret
Smile....Lizard fish waiting for his prey
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date posted posted: Friday, August 2, 2019
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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