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2024 has been the year of the bait ball in Bonaire. This tired turtle is looking for a place to rest, oblivious of the cyclone of big eye scan just meters away. Shot with a Nikon Z8/Nauticam housing/INON z330 strobes.
By Leslie Howell
posted (2 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (4 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch ( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024 (Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Monday, December 23, 2024
0 votes

Pterois miles Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted 09:21 CST Today (10 hours ago)
0 votes

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shots taken with a WIDE ANGLE (or fisheye) lens having 1) a well defined close subject (usually strobe-lit) AND 2) a wide angle BACKGROUND with a second subject, usually a diver
Weightless in Wonderland by Peet J Van Eeden
Weightless in Wonderland
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Potato bass and friends by Peet J Van Eeden
Potato bass and friends
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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American comb jelly fish(Mnemiopsis leidy, lake Greveling... by Filip Staes
American comb jelly fish(Mnemiopsis leidy, lake Grevelingen, Zeeland, the Netherlands.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 27, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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El Hierro , under the sun ! by Claude Lespagne
El Hierro , under the sun !
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 26, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Epinephelus marginatus , El Hierro . by Claude Lespagne
Epinephelus marginatus , El Hierro .
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 25, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Nurse Shark close up in the Maldives. by Norm Vexler
Nurse Shark close up in the Maldives.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 17, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Maldives
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Jardines reef dive, Playa del Carmen, Mexico by Antonio Venturelli
Jardines reef dive, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Lionfish Sunburst by Joerg Blessing
Lionfish Sunburst
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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A coconut (veined) Octopus stilt walking surreptitiously ... by Helen Sampson
A coconut (veined) Octopus stilt walking surreptitiously past the onlooking mullet, with its most important shell home possessions.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 13, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Motion blur technique with schooling Bannerfish in the Ma... by Norm Vexler
Motion blur technique with schooling Bannerfish in the Maldives.
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 12, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Maldives
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Early morning dive. Two small creatures appeared on fron ... by Svetoslav Dimitrov
Early morning dive. Two small creatures appeared on fron of me as aliens. This is how I felt - first meeting with UFO :-)
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 6, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Cuttlefish Quadruplets/Photograph of four cuttlefish in L... by Laurie Slawson
Cuttlefish Quadruplets/Photograph of four cuttlefish in Lembeh, Indonesia.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 3, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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Napoleon by Sigitas Sirvydas
Napoleon
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Motion blur in the Maldives. by Norm Vexler
Motion blur in the Maldives.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 26, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Red sea soft corals by Sigitas Sirvydas
Red sea soft corals
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 26, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Aeoliscus strigatus razorfish, jointed razorfish or coral... by Hansruedi Wuersten
Aeoliscus strigatus razorfish, jointed razorfish or coral shrimpfish
3 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Light in the mangroves by Leena Roy
Light in the mangroves
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 20, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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moray eel,Playa del Carmen by Antonio Venturelli
moray eel,Playa del Carmen
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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While the hardcore in the shallows got hit badly by the 2... by Joerg Blessing
While the hardcore in the shallows got hit badly by the 2016 bleaching, the soft corals are as beautiful as ever on the deeper reefs
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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u/w caribbean reef, Playa del Carmen by Antonio Venturelli
u/w caribbean reef, Playa del Carmen
3 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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fish n wreck by Ilker Acar
fish n wreck
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 14, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Honeycomb moray eel by Joerg Blessing
Honeycomb moray eel
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 13, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Most shallow hard corals have unfortunately suffered blea... by Joerg Blessing
Most shallow hard corals have unfortunately suffered bleaching in Maldives. But once you descend a few meters the soft corals are super nice and coral cover gets much better.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 12, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) - Isla Isabela by Viktor Vrbovský
Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) - Isla Isabela
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7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 11, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Flying sea turtle by Julian Hsu
Flying sea turtle
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 11, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Taiwan
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Big Turtle with Divers, Half Moon Caye Belize by Alejandro Topete
Big Turtle with Divers, Half Moon Caye Belize
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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As usually, this curious bat fish come to see what we do.... by Svetoslav Dimitrov
As usually, this curious bat fish come to see what we do. We just waited to see the hammerhead shark, whick finally come almost at the end of the dive.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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