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📸 Sometimes all you need is the right subject looking its absolute best.These are the six winning photographs from the P...
21/09/2026

📸 Sometimes all you need is the right subject looking its absolute best.

These are the six winning photographs from the Portrait category of the 2025 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.

From a perfectly tangled sea snake and tiny critters in Lembeh to playful sea lions and one very impressive tiger shark, these photographs show just how much personality, detail and character can come through in an underwater portrait.

Congratulations to the photographers behind these incredible images:

🥇 “Sea Snake Knot” by Galice Hoarau
🥈 “Buddha’s Ear” by Imogen Manins
🥉 “Home Alone” by Wojtek Meczynski
🏅 “Side Profile is the Best” by Wen Chou Wu, 4th Place
👏 “Loco Lobos” by James Ferrara, Honorable Mention
👏 “Grace of the Deep” by Alessandro Fantin, Honorable Mention

Which one gets your vote? Swipe through all six and tell us your favorite below 👇

Explore all of the 2025 Ocean Art winners through the link in our bio.

20/09/2026

Let’s see where you’re diving next year 👀

No cheating… wherever it lands, you have to go 😜

The Marelux Apollo Y is one of those pieces of underwater photo gear that surprised us more than expected. It combines a...
19/09/2026

The Marelux Apollo Y is one of those pieces of underwater photo gear that surprised us more than expected. It combines a GN22 strobe with a genuinely useful 3000-lumen video light, making it a really interesting option for photographers who want to shoot both stills and video without carrying two separate lighting setups.

The strobe has a wide 120° beam, an incredibly quick 0.6-second recycle time at full power, and up to 1,500 full-power flashes on a charge. That fast recycle time is particularly useful for macro photography when you’re trying to keep up with moving subjects and don’t want to miss the moment while your strobes recharge.

Then there’s the video light. It puts out 3000 lumens with up to 120 minutes of battery life, plus a 1000-lumen red light for focusing and approaching more light-sensitive critters. After testing it underwater, we found the video light powerful enough that it really does feel like a proper hybrid setup rather than an added extra. 🔥

For newer underwater photographers, macro shooters, or anyone trying to keep their setup compact, there’s a lot packed into the Apollo Y.

Comment “Apollo!” and we’ll send the full review your way. 👋

18/09/2026

Which one are you guilty of? 👀👇

13/09/2026

One ocean. One planet. One responsibility. 💙🌊

🔍 A reminder that some of the ocean’s most incredible subjects are also some of its smallest.These are the six winning p...
12/09/2026

🔍 A reminder that some of the ocean’s most incredible subjects are also some of its smallest.

These are the six winning photographs from the Macro category of the 2025 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.

From tiny creatures tucked between coral polyps to beautifully lit nudibranchs, new life and even giant kelp photographed from a completely different perspective, these images show just how creative macro photography can be.

Congratulations to the photographers behind these incredible images:
🥇 “Between the Polyps” by Daniel Sly
🥈 “Gliding” by Luis Arpa Toribio
🥉 “The Next Generation” by Nicholas More
🏅 “Giant Kelp” by Bruce Hall, 4th Place
👏 “Responsible Dad” by Lena Remy, Honorable Mention
👏 “Complements” by Luis Arpa Toribio, Honorable Mention

Macro photographers, which one is your favorite? Swipe through all six and let us know below 👇

Explore all of the 2025 Ocean Art winners through the link in our bio.

11/09/2026

Baja moments with the locals 🦭

08/09/2026

A little Socorro manta moment 🥹

If you’ve been waiting for a properly big GoPro update for underwater video, the new GoPro Mission 1 Pro is worth a look...
08/09/2026

If you’ve been waiting for a properly big GoPro update for underwater video, the new GoPro Mission 1 Pro is worth a look 👀

🔥 GoPro has completely redesigned the platform with a new 50MP 1-inch sensor, GP3 processor, 8K/60p video, 4K high-frame-rate recording, and improved low-light performance. In our underwater testing, that larger sensor made one of the biggest differences, with noticeably less noise on deeper dives and at night.

👏 The Mission 1 Pro also introduces GP-Log2, which gives you much more flexibility when adjusting color, white balance, highlights, and shadows in post. We found it especially useful underwater, where correcting color can make a huge difference to the final footage.

🐠 There is one pretty important catch though: the minimum focusing distance is now 24 inches, which is much farther than the HERO series. That can make close-focus wide angle, smaller subjects, and even some selfie-style shooting a lot trickier underwater.

So, is it worth upgrading? If you care about low-light performance, longer recording times, high frame rates, and a more cinematic editing workflow, there’s a lot to like here. If you’re already happy with your HERO 13, that focusing limitation is definitely something to think about first.

Would you make the jump to the Mission 1 Pro? 👇
Comment “GOPRO” and we’ll send the full underwater review straight to your DMs.

🌊 Big scenes, big animals, and some seriously incredible timing.
These are the six winning photographs from the Wide Ang...
05/09/2026

🌊 Big scenes, big animals, and some seriously incredible timing.

These are the six winning photographs from the Wide Angle category of the 2025 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.

From the final light of the day over a Cuban reef to marlin hunting in Mexico and huge schools of fish filling the frame in Raja Ampat, these images show exactly why wide-angle underwater photography can be so spectacular.

Congratulations to the photographers behind these incredible images:
🥇 “Last Light” by Byron Conroy
🥈 “Marlin and Diver” by George Kao
🥉 “Scads and Turtle” by Alex Lindbloom
🏅 “Concise Chaos” by James Ferrara, 4th Place
👏 “Parrotfish Frenzy” by Katherine Zhou, Honorable Mention
👏 “Catch me if you can” by Pedro Carrillo, Honorable Mention

Which one would you most want to have captured yourself? Swipe through all six and tell us your favorite below 👇

Explore all of the 2025 Ocean Art winners through the link in our bio.


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