Successful underwater photography is usually done with specialized equipment and techniques. However, it offers exciting and rare opportunities. Animals such as fish and marine mammals are common subjects, but photographers also pursue shipwrecks, submerged cave systems, underwater “landscapes”, invertebrates, seaweed, geological features, and portraits of fellow divers. Here are some wonderful photos of life underwater:

photo by Rafae|

photo by wrda

photo by Scott Thomas

photo by Motoya Kawasaki

photo by Marcel Panne

photo by Matthias Liffers

photo by Stephen Carolin

photo by r.gielen

photo by Cheryl

photo by Olivier ROUX

photo by Marcel Panne
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The shot with numerous jellies is from an aquarium. Not actually an underwater shot. I thought you should know that this is misrepresented.