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Amazon River Dolphin Wins Underwater Photographer of the Year—Beside Sea Jungles and Shipwrecks

We humans may fancy our dry-land abode a pretty fine place, yet nature has created a whole universe full of jaw-dropping scenes underwater. And it’s just waiting for landbound photographers to embrace its marine majesty. Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) specifically focuses on this milieu of aquatic, camera-wielding visual artists in its yearly competition, displaying some of…


The Incredible Petrified World (1959)

Four adventurers descend to the depths of the ocean when the cable on their underwater diving bell snaps. The rest of their expedition, believing them to be lost, abandons hope of finding them. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button…


The Planet’s Top Underwater — Yes, Underwater — Hotels

By Jackie Burrell From Bay Area News Group Tropical $10,000 per night underwater villas are a bit above our pay grade — daytripping to Bodega Bay is more our speed these days. But the LuxuryTravelExpert.com‘s recent top 10 resort list offers plenty of fodder for vicarious, virtual travel. It’s a jaw-dropping collection of 10 underwater…


Underwater Photographer Snaps Strange Transparent Octopuses in Dark Waters Where the Sun Never Shines

Surrounded by obsidian waters in all directions, dive photographer Wu Yung-sen is momentarily cast in limbo, with neither earth nor sky to place him anywhere. Yet, that dark, scary void engulfing him is thick with life. Yung-sen calls these black waters the “ultimate diver’s frontier,” his chosen artistic domain. Yung-sen’s exotic photographs of wildly strange deep-sea…


Winner of Underwater Photographer of the Year 2022 Unveiled—Showcasing Sharks, Shipwrecks, Starfish, and More

As all manner of mandates and travel restrictions have impeded would-be underwater photographers from diving with their cameras into seas, tropical lagoons, and other submerged spots around the world, it hasn’t stopped the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) competition from rolling out this year’s host of winners. Some 4,200 splendid subaquatic shots piled in from…


Diver Forms Amazing 2-Year Friendship With Tiny Racoon Butterfly Fish Who Recognizes Her, Swims to Say Hi

Rachel first met Sonny under the sparkling turquoise waters of French Polynesia. To say she “met” Sonny, you might think him to be a person, but Sonny is not a person at all, but a tiny, bright-yellow racoon butterfly fish, who became her “friend” over the last two years. The research diver, who’s sailed and…


National Geographic Photographer Captures Sublime Shots of Two Worlds Above and Below the Sea

National Geographic photographer David Doubilet’s journey of creating his signature “above and below the sea” shots began three decades ago in Grand Cayman. It was there that two worlds converged on either side of a razor-thin molecular border between sky and sea. Above were the “impossibly blue skies and billowing clouds;” below, the surreal, “sun-dappled…


Incredible Photoshoot Shows Diver’s Breathtaking Closeup Encounter With Humpback Whale Calf

This incredible photoshoot shows a husband and wife’s amazing closeup encounter with a group of humpback whales. David Edgar, 32, and his wife Alice, 33, were diving in the beautiful crystal-clear waters off the islands of Tonga in the South Pacific. The couple were following a group of three humpback whales—a mother, her calf, and…


Diver Explores Underwater Caves in Mexico—and the Photos Are Unreal

An underwater photographer has captured Mexican caves that look like something out of a science fiction movie beneath our feet. Martin Broen, from New York, snapped these images while visiting the Yucatán Peninsula. Martin says he’s obsessed with capturing the beauty and photographic diversity of the cenotes and cave systems. A cenote is a natural…


Ocean Researchers Capture Deep-Sea ‘Glass Octopus’ on Video—and It’s Out of This World

An oceanic expedition recently sighted an incredibly rare deep-sea specimen—with see-through skin and eight legs—among a number of other extraordinary sights in the central Pacific. On July 8, research vessel Falkor completed the 34-day voyage through the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago, according to a press release from the Schmidt Ocean Institute (founded by former Google…