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2012 Holiday Dive Gear Gift Guide

Want to find the ideal gift for every dive buddy on your list? No matter your budget, we’ve got you covered.

Adopt a Manatee This Holiday Season

Giving a holiday gift that matters is as easy as adopting a manatee from Save the Manatee Club

Save-A-Manatee Adoption [Photo Gallery]

A photo gallery of Florida manatees by Patrick Rose from Save the Manatee Club

Reef Encounters: Pipefish

There are approximately 200 species of pipefish (Syngnathinae) known to exist, ranging from boring to bizarre. They are a small, fused-jaw fish in the family Syngathidae that also includes the seahorse, sea dragon and pipehorse. Here, the many faces of pipefishes.

10 Best Warm-Water Scuba Diving Destinations

The hottest dive spots — from the Caribbean to the Pacific — to beat the cold-weather blues!

Images: Ambient-Light Underwater Photography

Leave your strobes behind and free your mind to create amazing ambient-light underwater photos. Ambient-light photography isn’t technically challenging, though it might seem so. Done right, it gives underwater photographers a world of possibilities: the ability to capture scenes that are too large to be lit only with strobes; the ability to create blue-water backgrounds with a unique gradient of colors; and the ability to create images with strong contrast and eye-catching silhouettes.

Getaways: Asia & Pacific Live-aboards

Awesome scuba diving trips on live-aboards that cruise Indonesia, Australia, Maldives and Galapagos

Passport to the Panhandle

Florida creates a Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Trail for scuba divers.

Maui Dive Travel Guide

This Hawaiian island is more than just the perfect dive destination; it's a buffet of the world's most dramatic scuba diving

Underwater Photo Gallery: Baby Talk

Take a careful look around the next time you're scuba diving. From protective papas incubating egg sacs to camouflaged sea slugs laying perfect egg spirals, there’s plenty of evidence of underwater parenting

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

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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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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Underwater Photography Spotlight: Alvin Ho of Singapore

Underwater photographer Alvin Ho lives in Singapore and has been diving since 1998. In 2004, he bought his first underwater camera setup. Eager to share his underwater experiences with family and friends, Alvin’s passion for underwater photography was born. He’s been perfecting his craft ever since.

Underwater Dogs

To celebrate the release of Seth Casteel's book Underwater Dogs, we've got a photo gallery of some endearing pups.

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Florida: Where Countless Wrecks Meet Massive Encounters [Getaways]

The Sunshine State’s 8,436 miles of shoreline (second only to Alaska) mean almost limitless underwater exploration. Much of the marine life is big: dolphins, sharks, sea turtles and goliath grouper are as common as orange groves, palm trees and roller coasters. What’s attracting them? Besides the wrecks scattered along both coasts, currents serve an endless nutrient buffet — and make diving as swift-moving as a theme-park ride.

Curacao Scuba Diving: An Education in Color

Curaçao is a nation that prides itself on diversity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its rich tapesty of colors both above and below the water. That's a huge plus for scuba divers, especially those who are underwater photographers.

Underwater Photography Spotlight: Jeff de Guzman, Philippines

Though he got started in underwater photography late in life, Jeff de Guzman’s keen eye and plentiful diving opportunities have made his photography recognized worldwide.

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Reef Encounters: A Veined Octopus and Her Eggs

A veined octopus turns her life inside-out -- literally -- to protect her brood. View a photo gallery and read more …

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Reef Encounters: A Veined Octopus and Her Eggs [Photo Gallery]

A veined octopus turns her life inside-out -- literally -- to protect her brood.

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9 Dive Computers with Power-Packed Processors

When it comes to dive computers, scuba divers have lots of choices. In other words, the sky’s the limit in the world of dive-data crunchers. Following are nine of our favorites.

9 Dive Computers with Power-Packed Processors [Photo Gallery]