Underwater Diving and Coral Research

Photos of divers exploring underwater environments, studying coral reefs and marine life, highlighting the beauty and diversity of ocean ecosystems.

Diver and Sponge

Diver and Sponge

couple of rebreather divers, sea of cortez, baja california, mexico, east pacific ocean date: 24.06.08 ref: zb777_115632_0043 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Person diving the artifical reef which has developed on the sunken HMAS Perth. Albany, Western Australia

Fisheries conducting a reef management and biodiversity analysis, Brunei

diver assessing soft coral on a reef diver assessing soft coral on a reef ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/PaulxCowellx2013x 4400570 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Diver examining underwater shipwreck

Scuba diver researchers. CNR volcanology research. Aeolian Islands. Sicily. Italy. (Photo by: Giorgio Mesturini/REDA&CO/UIG)

Scuba diver observing volcanic gas bubbles, rising from the hot sea floor, volcanic island, Sangean, Indonesia, South East Asia, Asia

underwater photographer

diver exploring wreck of an old fishing vessel in the Maldives

Scuba diver takes picture.

Scuba divers investigating the submerged section of an iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Southern Ocean.

Sharksucker remora on diver's scuba tank. Echeneis naucrates. Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. . .

Scuba diver underwater, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras

diver exploring St Johns cave system in the Red Sea

MR Scuba Diver blowing air rings, Beqa Island off Southern Viti Levu, Fiji, South Pacific

Scuba diver swimming underwater

Diver with lamp observing noble pen shell or fan mussel (Pinna nobilis), Corfu, Ionian Islands, Mediterranean Sea, Greece, Europe

Diver and giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta). Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

Diver with underwater robot camera

diver standing on the ocean floor at Banda Sea / Indonesia

Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)

Fisheries conducting a reef management and biodiversity analysis, Brunei

Cage diving with the Great white shark, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Central America

SAN DIEGO (July 19, 2012) Sean Chen, an electrical engineer assigned to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR), assists an autonomous underwater vehicle in a practice run during the 15th Annual International RoboSub Competition at Point Loma. Hosted by SPAWAR, the competition challenges student teams from around the globe to design and build an autonomous underwater vehicle capable of completing realistic missions.

Divers researching bottom with submerged ship mast fragments in transparent ocean;Scuba divers swimming underwater exploring wreckage

Diver with lamp, steep wall with pencil worms (Sabella spallanzani) growing on sponges (Polifera) and sunset cup coral (Leptopsammia pruvoti), Corfu, Ionian Islands, Mediterranean Sea, Greece, Europe

Dr. Sylvia Earle

Diver finds a 24kt gold piece weighing 26 pounds during the recovery of the shipwreck ""Las Maravillas"", a Spanish galleon sunk in 1658, Bahamas. 1987

Diver with lamp looking at yellow-green candle sponge (Aplysina fistularis) Caribbean Sea, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba, West Indies, Caribbean Sea, Central America

Videocameraman with a Sony underwaterhousing.

Research divers from the MOC Marine Institute map out coral damage at Molokini Marine Preserve off the island of Maui, Hawaii. In the future, data fro...

diver in cavern

diver exploring St Johns cave system in the Red Sea

Scuba diver observing volcanic gas bubbles, rising from the hot sea floor, volcanic island, Sangean, Indonesia, South East Asia, Asia

Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Giant Moray Eel - called Harry, and Valerie Taylor being filmed for an IMAX documentary by Ron Taylor. 1975 (Gymnothorax javanicus). Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Tek rebreather diver at a depth of 70 meters with a DPV specially equipped with 60,000 lumen lighting and 12 Gopro to carry out a 3D survey of a karstic cave submerged for over 14,000 years, Passe Bateau Sud, Mayotte Lagoon

Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D (2014), directed by JOHN BRUNO.

diver exploring St Johns cave system in the Red Sea

A diver swims over the sea bottom.

Diver with torch. Cave diving Maya Cenotes Yucatan Mexico. The Yucatan Penisula is a huge limestone platform where water runs through a underground cave system. Part of the land has collapsed, creating sinkholes called Cenotes, which gives access to the underground system.

Craig Humphrey and Katharina Fabricius conducting reef survey for Coral Life census, Great Barrier Reef, Australia 2008

Underwater cameraman preparing his equipment

Navy divers set up a scientific experiment off Andros Island, Bahamas. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

A module of a space station reproduction in a diving basin, backup divers carefully examine the space station, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Maritime archaeologist with a 18lb cannon from the wreck of a British warship HMS Colossus, wrecked 1798. St Mary's Roads, Isles of Scilly, UK, August 2013.

Diver searching with a sandblaster and magnetic hit during the recovery of the shipwreck ""Las Maravillas"", a Spanish galleon sunk in 1658, Bahamas. 1987

Coral nursery monitoring in Mayotte lagoon

Alien egg

Fisheries conducting a reef management and biodiversity analysis, Brunei

Diver with a Rebreather. (A closed or half-closed circulatory system) . Maldives.

Research diver moving a broken stand of antler coral to be glued upright at Molokini Marine Preserve off the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA; Maui, Hawaii...

Coral breeding. Diver cleans the frame on which young specimens of staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) grow until they can be released onto the reef. The aim is to breed corals that can withstand the higher water temperatures. Dive site Nursery, Tavernier, Florida Keys, Florida, USA, North America

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

Ammunition from the White Beach Wrecks, Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, Oceania

Jacques Cousteau underwater station Precontinent II, Shaab Rumi, Red Sea, Sudan, Africa

Woman wearing diving equipment by metal on ocean floor in sea

Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)

diver exploring St Johns cave system in the Red Sea

Scuba diver examining coral formation

Indonesia, Diver Taking A Picture Of A Crinoid On A Tube Sponge And Soft Coral On The Reef.

Diver using side mount gear in cave in Mexico.

Cave Diver, Cave Diving

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

Coral researcher documenting dead elkhorn coral (Acropora palmta). Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

The Sea stars give us gestures almost human

coral regeneration university students help harvest young staghorn coral from an underwater nursery for relocation to a damaged reef site off key largo florida keys usa. editorial use only no sales to u.s. dive magazines.

A diver and a Fried egg jellyfish (Phacellophora camtschatica) or Egg-yolk jellyfish; British Columbia, Canada

USA, California, Diver examining Blue shark (Prionace glauca) in Pacific Ocean

Cave Diver, Cave Diving

Aquarius underwater research habitat allows marine scientists to study coral reefs for an extended time period Florida Atlantic Ocean

Diver looking at illuminated large brown tube sponge (Agelas conifera) and Caribbean fan coral common sea fan (Gorgonia ventalina), Caribbean, Bahamas, Central America

Bow of the wreck of the USS Spiegel Grove, dive site John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo, Florida Keys, Florida, USA, North America

Diver at the Jura, wreck diving, Germany, Lake Constance, Baden Würtemberg, Europe

Diver with metal detector displays the ancient coins he found, lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, Europe

Biodiversity of the mesophotic zone at a depth of 75 meters. Mayotte

Sandblaster searching and blowing a magnetic hit during the recovery of the shipwreck ""Las Maravillas"", a Spanish galleon sunk in 1658, Bahamas. 1987. model released

Kapalai wreck, Diver penetrates the wreck, Kapalai, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

A photographer lines up with a SLR in a housing with a macro lens to shoot detail on this crinoid; Indonesia

Research submersible submerging to explore hot vents, Danzante Island, Baja California, Mexico

Low angle view of a scuba diver underwater

Diver in cave, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

99-E-14654 (October 1999) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu, mission specialist, is assisted by SCUBA-equipped divers duringa rehearsal of STS-106 space walk choresin the Hydrolab facility at Star City, Russia. Also participating in this simulation but out of frame here was cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist who represents the Russian Space Agency (RSA).

Diver at the wreck of the Dunraven, sunk on 22 April 1876, Sharm el Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea, Egypt, Africa

Micronesia, Palua, divers with two stinging jellyfish (Mastiguas papua).

Divers observing a Whitemargin Stargazer, Uranoscopus sulphureus, Komodo Island, Indonesia.

Release of gametes from barrel sponges (Xestospongia testudinaria), Mayotte

DeepSee diving submersible exploring seabed, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean Property released

Cameraman with professional underwater video camera type RED Dragon X 6K Digital Cinema Camera in Nauticam underwater housing, Sulu Sea, Pacific Ocean, Palawan, Calamian Islands, Philippines, Asia

Apnoea diver, Benjamin Franz

Diver looks at a Coral.

Collecting Ballast Stones of Spanish 1500s Shipwreck, 20' u/w, Grand Bahama

Diver with a Sharksucker stuck on the thigh Tuamotu

JSC2009-E-226239 (28 Oct. 2009) --- Astronaut Tracy Caldwell, Expedition 23/24 flight engineer, attired in a training version of her Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, participates in a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Divers are in the water to assist Caldwell in her rehearsal, which is intended to help prepare her for work on the exterior of the International Space Station.

Divers in narrow passage in Ghost Cave (Grotta dei Fantasmi), Alghero, Sardinia

Rebreather diving in the mesophotic zone, Mayotte

Diver explores Jacque Cousteau's Precontinent 2, Sudan, Africa, Red Sea, Shaab Rhumi, Africa

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