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The 50 Best Small Marine Animals in the Ocean

Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata)

With the help of marine-life experts, we've put together a cool photo gallery of scuba divers' favorite 50 small marine animaIs. Is your favorite little sea creature on the list?

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Humpback Whale Encounter!

An underwater photographer captures magical moments with a mother humpback and her calf in the Socorros

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Reef Encounters: Good Hair Day

Why do some underwater creatures sprout hair? Scientists may debate the reasons why, but photographers love to encounter them. View a photo gallery and read more here …

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Expert Tips for Spotting Hidden Marine Life

From shy seahorses to freaky frogfish, here are some quick tips for finding five stealthy species of marine life.

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6 Awesome Destinations for Family Dive Vacations

With cell phones, computers, and video games offering a continuous source of distraction, spending quality time with your family is harder than ever these days. Thankfully, dive vacations where you can literally immerse your clan in the wonders of the natural world provide one of the greatest ways to reconnect. Here are six of our favorite destinations for the ultimate family dive trip.

Water Planet: It's the Little Things

Slow down on the reef, show some patience and have your camera ready — with some luck, you'll be able to photograph the reef's smallest denizens.

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Digital Photography 101: Wide-Angle Wrecks

For an underwater photographer, wrecks offer an exciting chance to tell a story, plus often have a variety of interesting photo opportunities. Get tips on photographing wrecks and view a photo gallery here …

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Photographer Spotlight: Takako Uno

Takako Uno is originally from Japan, but now makes her home in Hong Kong. In 1997, she snapped her first images using a borrowed SLR — and she's never looked back.

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Planet's 50 Greatest Dives

Check out 50 of the planet's most epic dive sites! Trust us, it was tough to narrow it down, but we asked underwater photographers, writers, readers and our Facebook fans to help us. In the end, we think we've listed the best scuba diving in the world, including colorful reefs, big animals, haunting wrecks — 50 sites for every scuba diver's bucket list!

World's Best Nudibranchs

Unforgettable encounters across the globe - special edition...

9 Compact Imaging Systems For Delivering Big Results

Here are nine models above that will empower you to take your underwater photography and video to the next level — and four trends to consider before making upgrading your system.

Tec Curious

Technical diving has always seemed a bit out of reach for me — too complicated, too difficult, too risky. But my mind has been seriously changed thanks to PADI’s recent Tec Xplor Days, a series of three events offering divers the chance to sample the latest in tec diving gear and rebreather technology in a safe, controlled — and free — environment.

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Images: Better Backlighting

Backlighting broadly refers to the illumination of a subject — in part or in whole — from behind. While this might seem straightforward, the variation of a light source’s distance and direction relative to the subject yields very different results. Make your photos pop with these backlighting tricks used by the pros.

Picture Perfect: Spinning Crinoids in Raja Ampat

The key to shooting good motion blur images underwater is to have a slow enough shutter speed to capture some blur from the ambient light and be close enough to your subject to freeze part of it with the light from your strobes. Get more tips here ...

Digital Photography 101: Split-Level Photography

There are no other images that better connect land-loving humans to the underwater world than split-level photography. Tips for how to get the best over/under images from Scubazoo Images.

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Behind the Lens: Plan B

What happens when you prepare yourself for a specific type of underwater photography, but the ocean has other plans for you? Why, go to Plan B, of course. While diving in Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands and facing some current, Ellen Cuylaerts explains how she learned to go with the flow.

Digital Photography 101: Working With Models

Underwater photography tips for how to get the best photos using a diver as a model

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Digital Photography 101: Creating Bokeh Photos

Want to add this quality to your underwater photos? Get photography tips and view a bokeh photo gallery here …

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Digital Photography 101: Wide-Angle Wrecks

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Digital Photography 101: Creating Movement

Tips for using a slow shutter speed to create movement — or motion blur — in an underwater still image. Read more here…

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Digital Photography 101: Black Backgrounds

Here are five tips to help you capture macro shots with perfect black backgrounds.

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Underwater Photographer Spotlight: Mike Veitch of Indonesia

Underwater photographer Mike Veitch lives in Bali, Indonesia, and says he has the world’s richest coral reefs as his office. See a photo gallery and read more here.

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Photographer Spotlight: Takako Uno

Takako Uno is originally from Japan, but now makes her home in Hong Kong. In 1997, she snapped her first images using a borrowed SLR — and she's never looked back.

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Planet's 50 Greatest Dives

World's Best Nudibranchs

Unforgettable encounters across the globe - special edition...

Reef Encounters: The Year’s Best Images

Mike Bartick’s stunning collection of underwater photos from 2012 is a reminder of the surprises, treasures, and adventures awaiting underwater photographers every time they drop down on a reef. View a photo gallery and read more here …

Water Planet: Goliath Grouper Encounter!

While scuba diving off Pompano Beach, Florida, an underwater photographer has an up-close encounter with a curious goliath grouper

Whale Shark Rescue!

Stunning photos of divers from the Solmar V in the Socorros helping an entangled whale shark

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Macro Marine Life: Creatures Smaller Than a Quarter

The big boys — we’re talking sharks, mantas and turtles — often hog the spotlight when it comes to bucket-list scuba diving sightings. But slow down a little bit on your next dive and take a close look — a very close look — and you might be surprised by what tiny treasures you’ll find hiding in plain sight.

Photographer Spotlight: Mathieu Meur

After growing up on the tropical island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, Mathieu Meur now lives in Singapore, though he’s rarely home for long. His underwater images are quite stunning. See a photo gallery and read more here…

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9 World's Best Dives

Silfra Canyon - Thingvellir National Park, Iceland

A look back at nine unforgettable scuba dives across the globe featured in Sport Diver magazine throughout the year. Click on the image below to see all of them!

Diving a Japanese Mini Sub [Photo Gallery]