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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 (3 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (5 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

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

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (3 days ago)
0 votes

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

Pterois miles Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Tuesday, December 24, 2024
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted 05:47 CST Today (2 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
Protecting the female by Eduard Bello
Protecting the female
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 23, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Belgium
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Wobbegong...awesome word. by Joerg Blessing
Wobbegong...awesome word.
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11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 21, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Maldives
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The colourful Lily Pads of Cenote Carwash, Mexico by Nick Polanszky
The colourful Lily Pads of Cenote Carwash, Mexico
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 20, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Mexico
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Fish Portrait by Iyad Suleyman
Fish Portrait
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18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Barracuda ! by Claude Lespagne
Barracuda !
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24 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Porcupinefish in Cozumel by Norm Vexler
Porcupinefish in Cozumel
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Scrawled Filefish in Cozumel by Norm Vexler
Scrawled Filefish in Cozumel
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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dancing in the storm by Claudia Weber-Gebert
dancing in the storm
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Minos wreck from 1939 in the Baltic sea, The picture is t... by Rene B. Andersen
Minos wreck from 1939 in the Baltic sea, The picture is taken inside the wreck where some of the crew went down with the ship.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Baltic Sea Denmark
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In the eye of a manta by Pieter Firlefyn
In the eye of a manta
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 9, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Not a sea, but a hudge dive tank. Todi by Eduard Bello
Not a sea, but a hudge dive tank. Todi
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 8, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Belgium
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Feather star by Athanassios Lazarides
Feather star
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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A beautiful Queen Angelfish in Cozumel. by Norm Vexler
A beautiful Queen Angelfish in Cozumel.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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A Whitespotted Filefish in the Orange Phase photographed ... by Norm Vexler
A Whitespotted Filefish in the Orange Phase photographed in Cozumel, Mexico.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Jungle meets Reef- The Passage by Joerg Blessing
Jungle meets Reef- The Passage
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 1, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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The Cleaning Station by Peet J Van Eeden
The Cleaning Station
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 30, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Octopus posing on a night dive under the jetty, Baa Atoll by Joerg Blessing
Octopus posing on a night dive under the jetty, Baa Atoll
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13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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coral composition by Claudia Nicolow
coral composition
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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In a sandy water the live is quet. Temperature 4C. So the... by Eduard Bello
In a sandy water the live is quet. Temperature 4C. So the lonely plants struckle to stay alive.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Netherlands
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Just hanging out with a Grouper at the Oreo verde wreck! by Sayde Miura
Just hanging out with a Grouper at the Oreo verde wreck!
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 25, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Remora takes a ride on the manta by Pieter Firlefyn
Remora takes a ride on the manta
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Reef meets Jungle at "The Passage", Raja Ampat by Joerg Blessing
Reef meets Jungle at "The Passage", Raja Ampat
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 15, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Sint-Annaland, Zeeland. Colourful Seeweed by Eduard Bello
Sint-Annaland, Zeeland. Colourful Seeweed
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Netherlands
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Lessepsian immigrant - Lion fish by Athanassios Lazarides
Lessepsian immigrant - Lion fish
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10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Scuba Diver Natalia looking up at the tall standing tube ... by Nick Polanszky
Scuba Diver Natalia looking up at the tall standing tube corals of Bonaire
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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snake cross sea fan by Ag Hu
by: Ag Hu
snake cross sea fan
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 8, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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Majestic fish from Tulamben, Bali. by Athanassios Lazarides
Majestic fish from Tulamben, Bali.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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