Photo – Pasquale Vassallo
It’s not every day that you get to see an octopus with the snow covered peak of Mt. Vesuvius in the background.
Photo – Bill Lamp’l
These Orange Scalefin Anthias encircling an outcropping of pink soft coral were photographed in Fiji’s Bligh Water.
Photo – Tobias Friedrich
Two tiny gobies, neither of which is any bigger than an inch in the water near Marsa Alam, Egypt
Photo – Douglas A. Kahle
While diving near the island of Dominica in the Caribbean, photographer Douglas Kahle managed to catch this baby sperm whale.
Photo – Thomas P. Peschak
Every winter young whale sharks come congregate in the waters just off the coast of Djibouti. When fully grown they are the planet’s largest fish and can easily weigh more than an elaphant.
Photo – Thomas P. Peschak
Ever since the 70′s when they became legally protected the population of Stellar Sea Lions off the British Columbian coast has almost tripled.
Photo – Jason deCaires Taylor
The overgrown and tranquil statues of an underwater sculpture park near Grenada in the West Indies.
Photo – Jens Troeger
Diving Brown Passage, just off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, is home to an amazing abundance of life residing beneath the choppy waves of the Northern Pacific, one species of which would include this green anenome.
Photo – Cesare Naldi
A mahout (elephant driver) poses for a photograph while taking his elephant out for a swim on Radha Nagar Beach in the Andaman Islands
Photo – Lorenzo Menendez
A Hawaiian green sea turtle swims just beneath the waves off the coast of Hawaii.
Photo – Brian Skerry
A manatee swimming in the freshwater of Crystal River, Florida. They continue to be threatened by a number of factors including boats, toxins, and loss of habitat.
photo – Todd Mintz
Two Yellonose gobies, one floating upside down, poke their heads out of a crevice in the Dutch Caribbean.
Photo – David Doubilet
A bushman in a canoe is highlighted against the sky in this photograph taken from the bottom of the Oskavango River in Botswana. Whenever this river floods an alluvial fan of about 10,000 square miles is created.
Photo – David Doubilet
A closeup of this parrotfish just off of the Australian coast reveals a toothy grin used to scrape algae from the coral.
Photo – Steven Kovacs
A jawfish near Riviera Beach in Florida proudly displays the eggs he will continue to hold in his mouth until it comes time for them to hatch.
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Fantastic stuff. Everybody should try diving somewhere cool at least once in their lives. It’s tops!