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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 (5 days ago)
5 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
2 votes

sepiola hiding and modulating chromatophores
By Michele Lazzari
posted 03:00 CST Today (14 hours ago)
2 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted Yesterday
1 votes

Octopus vulgaris
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted 02:01 CST Today (15 hours ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch ( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024 (Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days 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
Coral taken on a reef dahab by Robert St Pier
Coral taken on a reef dahab
2 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 9, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Sea Fan by Chris Miskavitch
Sea Fan
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Colombia
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school of Fish - Galapagos by Chris Miskavitch
school of Fish - Galapagos
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Grotto Elysia ~ Elysia crispate, Lettuce Sea Slug – Eden ... by Nina Baxa
Grotto Elysia ~ Elysia crispate, Lettuce Sea Slug – Eden Rock, Grand Cayman.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Nice to meet you by Marco Gargiulo
Nice to meet you
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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into the current by Marco Fierli
into the current
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Heart Coral, Veracruz Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Heart Coral, Veracruz Mexico
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 6, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Scorpaena died in an abandoned fishing net by Marco Gargiulo
Scorpaena died in an abandoned fishing net
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55 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 6, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Symphodus pavo by Marco Gargiulo
Symphodus pavo
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59 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 6, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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So close to me by Marco Gargiulo
So close to me
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56 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 6, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Red star & daisy wall by Marco Gargiulo
Red star & daisy wall
40 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 5, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Lone Ranger, always on the look out for intruders and foo... by Ledean Paden
Lone Ranger, always on the look out for intruders and food. One strobe, D800.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 5, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Satil wreck by Yoav Lavi
Satil wreck
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Stone Fish in the reef by Alejandro Topete
Stone Fish in the reef
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Red Star & Coloured Fish by Marco Gargiulo
Red Star & Coloured Fish
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Mooray by Marco Gargiulo
Mooray
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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pufferfish by Oscar Miralpeix
pufferfish
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Bat Fish Veracruz Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Bat Fish Veracruz Mexico
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Cow's box fish by Philippe Brunner
Cow's box fish
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 29, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Stretching Turtle by Taner Atilgan
Stretching Turtle
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 29, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Ecuador
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drifting through a school of grunts by Steven Miller
drifting through a school of grunts
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 28, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Coral grouper in the shadow of a soft coral by Olivier Notz
Coral grouper in the shadow of a soft coral
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 28, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Capture by Salvatore Ianniello
Capture
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 28, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Anemonia sulcata with a crab by Marco Gargiulo
Anemonia sulcata with a crab
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 28, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Curious hawksbill turtle by Marteyne Van Well
Curious hawksbill turtle
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 27, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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negative space by Steven Miller
negative space
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2014

Final RoundThrough to 2014 awards final round judging
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 27, 2014
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date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Guardian of the Wreck A barracuda hovers on the wreck of... by Tanya Houppermans
Guardian of the Wreck
A barracuda hovers on the wreck of the USS Schurz off the coast of North Carolina.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 27, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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