Atlantic spotted dolphin with Olympic swimmer Mikako Kotani, Bahamas. Stenella frontalis.
Atlantic spotted dolphin with Olympic champion swimmer Matt Biondi, Bahamas. Stenella frontalis.
California sea lion, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Zalophus californianus.
Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, San Clemente Island, California.
Selfie with Steller Sea Lion, British Columbia, Canada
A freediving underwater photographer hovers above jellyfish Phacellophora camtschatica and salp chain Cyclosalpa affinis, drifting in the open ocean, San Diego, California.
North Pacific humpback whales, a mother and young calf swim near scientific research divers. Megaptera novaeangliae.
Manta ray and SCUBA diver, Manta birostris, Isla San Benedicto, Mexico.
Magic carpet ride, San Benedicto, Mexico.
Enormous ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean. Mola mola.
Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and photographer, open ocean.
California sea lion and diver, Zalophus californianus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
Diver and garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Catalina Island.
Whale shark, Rhincodon typus, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador.
Manta ray and freediver, Manta birostris, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico.
Diver with Steller Sea Lions, Canada
Diver and garibaldi.
Ocean sunfish and photographer, open ocean. Mola mola.
California sea lion at Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
Colonial salp chain and diver, adrift in the open ocean. Cyclosalpa affinis.
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and underwater photographer, Bahamas.
Blue shark (Prionace glauca) and underwater videographer, open ocean, San Diego, California
Atlantic spotted dolphin with Olympic swimmer Mikako Kotani, Bahamas. Stenella frontalis.
Freediver photographing pelagic gelatinous zooplankton, adrift in the open ocean.
Manta ray and scuba diver.
West Indian manatee, kiss, Trichechus manatus, Florida.
Snorkeler and manatee at Three Sisters Springs, Florida
Colonial salp chain and diver, adrift in the open ocean.
North Pacific humpback whale, active group, research diver, Megaptera novaeangliae, Maui, Hawaii.
Craig OConnor and his pending spearfishing world record North Pacific yellowtail (77.4 pounds), taken on a breathold dive with a band-power speargun near Abalone Point. Guadalupe Island is home to enormous yellowtail. The three most recent spearfishing world records for Northern yellowtail have been taken at Guadalupe. July 2004.
Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis, Olympic swimmer Mikako Kotani, underwater videographer Tom Fitz. Bahamas.