A beautiful open to a small cave... with tech divers
Shortlisted!

Portrait goby .. with pastel background

Green Turtle. DG Leica Summilux 9mm F1.7

Mountaineer of a nudibranch, ascending a submerged pinnacle.

Nudibranch, jewels of the sea and an ensemble of fishes passing in the background.

Swim through

White Spotted Jellyfish with refugees

Squid
2nd place Monthly HotShots Shortlisted!

Most divers will swim by Dendronephthya without taking a second look, but these soft corals show truly vibrant colours when lit by a strobe.

This is a pygmy seahorse taken in Selakan Island, Semporna, Malaysia. Shot at around 15 meters depth. The pygymy seahorse is a difficult subject to shoot due to its size and entanglement with its host. Shot with Sony A7Riii with Marelux housing

Chromodoris dianae, Cleaning Station, Kapalai (Malaysia)

A Cute Whaleshark

Purple Nudibranch (Hypselodoris apolegma), Mabul (Malaysia)
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Through to 2021 awards final round judging

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas), Sipadan (Malaysia)

Four separate groups of divers bumped into each other at a corner of a reef when a whale shark suddenly dropped in for a surprise visit. Chaos ensued.

Shrimp

Eye of a green turtle with barnacles attached

A simple freedive training during our surface interval, shot with a TG5.

The Harlequin Shrimp sits on a stone.

Hanging gardens, Sipadan.

School of jacks

Fallen tree on Sipadan beach.

Sponge, butterfly fish, diver, whitetip shark......the last two I just found on the screen during post

Healthy coral reefs like this one are becoming less common. Coral bleaching events are increasingly frequent, and ocean acidification and pollutants are other problems that corals are facing. But coral reefs support 25% of marine species.

This cutie goes by the name of "Chromodoris dianae"

Barracudas and diver

Maroon clown.
Shortlisted!