THESE amazing images give a startling and scary insight to life under the waves – including one of a great white shark closing in for the kill.
The undersea snaps were all named as winners and singled out for special praise in Scuba Diving Magazine’s Through Your Lens photo competition.
The magazine said: “It was tough to narrow it down from the 2,560 images entered but you will see below that the winners are more than deserving.
“With so many beautiful images to choose from, we named an additional 11 honourable mention winners in 2019.”
And from these incredible photos it is easy to see why…
Florent Gooden/Scuba Diving Magazine This first prize photo captured the moment a 17ft great white shark was caught hunting off the coast of Guadalupe[/caption]
Franco Tulli/Scuba Diving Magazine A tiny coconut octopus- measuring just two inches long – lurks inside a shell in Indonesia[/caption]
Pier Mane/Scuba Diving Magazine This amazing image shows fish swarming around a sunken ship near the island of Mauritius[/caption]
Gabriel Barathieu/Scuba Diving Magazine A humpback whale and her calf seen swimming between Madagascar and Mozambique[/caption]
Nicholas Samaras/Scuba Diving Magazine A seahorse seen in Stratoni – which is a small gulf in the northern Aegean Sea[/caption]
Marco Gargiulo/Scuba Diving Magazine This close up image of a John Dory was taken during a winter dive in the Gulf of Naples[/caption]
Hannes Klostermann/Scuba Diving Magazine A giant alligator captured swimming on the surface in the Florida’s Everglades[/caption]
Kyungshin Kim/Scuba Diving Magazine This brightly coloured jellyfish was filmed with a compact camera in the waters off South Korea[/caption]
Jack Israel/Scuba Diving Magazine Giant rays glow like ghosts in this atmospheric photograph shot in Baja, California[/caption]
Juho Karu/Scuba Diving Magazine A peacock mantis shrimp caught in its natural environment in the seas of Fiji[/caption]
Galice Hoarau/Scuba Diving Magazine A juvenile jackfish hiding inside a jellyfish in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia[/caption]
Nikki Hazouri/Scuba Diving Magazine A terrifying close up of a huge tarpon hunting in the Grand Cayman[/caption]
