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

Scuba diver looking at a blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata) on coral, Indonesia, South East Asia, Asia

Diver looks at a yellow tube sponge.

Spiral whip / wire coral (Stichophates sp) and diver, Philippines.

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, trapped in fishing net

Oceania, Palau, Divers watching Palau nautilusses, Nautilus belauensis, in Pacific Ocean

James Ketchum diving with spear gun loaded with PAT (Satellite Tag) for tagging Whale Shark, Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Mountains in the Sea Expedition. IFE Hercules ROV collecting corals in a 'forest' of bamboo whip corals on Balanus Seamount.

Mooring Buoy Underwater

ARQUEOLOGIA ACUATICA. FOTOGRAFIA SUBMARINA EN UN BARCO HUNDIDO.

Diver with Roman amphora, amphora form Dressel 2-4, amphora mainly for wine, also fish sauce and oil, Lycia, Turkey, Mediterranean Sea, Asia

A collapse more than 12,000 years old. The floor of the last room is covered with rock fragments that fell from the ceiling. These fragments collapsed before the cave was last submerged by rising sea levels about 12,000 years ago. This can be confirmed because there are small stalagmites forming on different parts of the blocks. Underwater cave, Mayotte

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

Egypt, Red Sea, Scuba diver and amphoras on ocean bed

NASA astronaut Rex Walheim is aided by divers as he works with astronaut Mike Fossum in a mock up of the space shuttle's payload bay as the crew of STS-135 trains for a space walk in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near the Johnson Space Center on Thursday, March 10, 2011, in Houston. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

In a Shark Cage

Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) biologists searching for whales, Hawaii

Humboldt squid, (Dosidicus gigas), Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Guadalupe Island, Diver in shark cage holding camera

Diver gazes at coral on former James Bond underwater film set Fireball, Thunderball, Caribbean, Bahamas, Central America

Metal construction for breeding, raising, breeding, propagation, multiplying stony corals (Scleractinia), damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus), netted damselfish (Dascyllus reticulatus), three-banded damselfish, Sulu Sea, Pacific Ocean, Palawan, Calamian Islands, Philippines, Asia

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) filmed by Rick Rosenthal, Dominica

A88142 U12G PRE JAWS EXPERIMENT MINE BACK JIM TALBUTT (PROJECT ENGINEER) JAN 14 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/14/1988 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MINE BACK; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PRE JAWS EXPERIMENT; ROCKS; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; WIRES; U12G PREJAWS EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Divescope restrained 7 m deep New Caledonia

A diver and a hydrothermal chimney. Note that he is obscured by the different temperature waters (from the chimney and the surrounding water) which are unable to mix. The sea water was 4 degrees Celsius and the chimney gives out water at close to 100 degrees Celsius . The Arnarnes Strytur chimney, Eyjafjordur, Iceland. North Atlantic Ocean. No model release available.

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

Man looking out of mini-sub window at an wreck dive site. At approximately 150 feet. Sea Aquarium Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. . . Model and Property Release: yes

JSC2000-05379 (7 June 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for Expedition One, is partially submergedin the Hydrolab facility at the GagarinCosmonaut Training Center during a spacewalk rehearsal.

Man looking out of mini-sub window at deep sea gorgonian. Subclass: Octocorallia. Approximately at 400 feet. Sea Aquarium Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. . . .

Jellyfish (Cassiopeia andromeda), Indo-Pacific

Diver examines two species of Stingless Jellyfish that have evolved in the isolation of Jellyfish Lake Mastigias papus Palau Micronesia

Blue sponge Out crop of Haliclona Encrusting sponge Copyright: xZoonar.com/YannxPoirierx 7378504

Bob Ballard Exploration

Several specimens of sea cucumber (Holothuria sanctori), dive site marine reserve El Cabron, Arinaga, Gran Canaria, Spain, Atlantic Ocean, Europe

BRUV (Baited Remote Underwater Video) monitoring used to monitor larger marine fish, sharks, rays and turtles by the MAR Alliance, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize. May 2015. Model released.

diver with shark cage in background

Diver and marine biologist maps a seagrass meadow (Posidonia oceanica) with acoustic telemetry, Herault, Occitanie, France, Europe

White smoky vent fluid rises out of small sulfur chimneys at Northwest Eifuku volcano. From Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean. Dated 2004

Underwater experience conducted in the Mediterranean in Monaco

Raising underwater bubbles in the blue sea The picture shows underwater bubbles which raise from the depth of blue sea Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxOrlovx 3375539

Diver looking at Giant Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia muta) in coral reef, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Central America

Starfish, Marthasterias glacialis, Italy, Sicily seabed

Air bubbles in the water, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Central America

Diver observing moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, Egypt, Sha'ab Shouna, Red Sea, Africa

Image of equipment for scuba diving, close-up

Red eye medusa (Polyorchis penicillatus) with its feeding tentacles extended to catch planktonic prey. Note that the bell of the jelly has hitchhiking amphipods (Hyperia medusarum). Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. North East Pacific Ocean.

Diver conducting research in underwater cave

Stern steering station on the Aikoku Maru shipwreck, Truk Lagoon, Micronesia.

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) researcher recording communication, Sri Lanka

Asia, Papua New Guinea. Seastar (Fromia monilis)

Filming Jellyfish Community

Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Large primnoid coral loaded with brittle stars on Dickins Seamount.

Diver with giant barrel jellyfish off the South Coast, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Maritime archaeologist on the wreck of the 1st rate man-of-war, HMS Invincible wrecked in 1758. Eastern Solent Channel. England, UK, May 2013. No model release available.

Deep looks

Diver in shark cage, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Guadalupe, Central America

Early Cretaceous marine environment in the Boreal Sea (Westphalen, Germany).

Artificial coral reef frames for coral recolonisation, and ecosystem creation, Semporna Straits, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo.

diving ladder

Crinoid (Comanthus bennetti) lives exposed on rocks filter feeding Marshall Island.

Diving Professionals from the Barkas of the Oceanographic Research Vintage Hr.Ms. Tydeman (1976-2004)

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

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) filter feeding, pleated throat expands during feeding, Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Fisheries conducting a reef management and biodiversity analysis, Brunei

Spiral wire coral and scuba diver Cirripathes spiralis

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

White flocculent mats in and around the extremely gassy high temperature with white smokers at the Champagne Vent Site. Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean. Dated 2004

Anomalocaris sneaks up on a Trilobite in Cambrian seas.

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

red cornetfish, flutemouth, Fistularia petimba

The underwater world. An illustration of sea depths with an effective bottom

Ophiocoma paucigranulata Spiny brittle star hanging off a tube sponge Copyright: xZoonar.com/YannxPoirierx 7732048

Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) adult underwater blowing bubbles, Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico

Russia, Arctic Circle Dive Centre, polar circle, ice diver

Diver checking tank fill. Central America, Belize. (MR)

Scuba Diver Gazes at Human Skull on Wreckage, Truk Lagoon, Micronesia

Geography Cone, Guadalcanal, SI Rugniu (Conus geographus) kills Fish w/ poison Harpoon

Lipstick surgeons schooling in the Red Sea Egypt

Maya Human bones in a Cenote Yucatan Mexico

Computer hard drive data storage technology

Divers in Nemon 33 pool, the deepest swimming pool in Europe, Belguim, Europe

Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) young held by squid researcher Scott Cassell, Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico

Deep sea coral (Paragorgia arborea pacifica)

Florida, Crystal River, This floating transmitter sends a signal to track this endangered Florida Manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris.

Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. Large bamboo coral with galatheid crabs and sweeper tentacles on Dickins Seamount at 800 meters.

Support teams arrive at the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The Demo-2 test flight for NASA's Commercial Crew Program was the first to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station and return them safely to Earth onboard a commercially built and operated spacecraft. Behnken and Hurley returned after spending 64 days in space.

S88-31376 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) suborbital spaceflight, is retrieved by a helicopter from the USS Lake Champlain during recovery operations in the western Atlantic Ocean. Shepard and the Mercury spacecraft designated the Freedom 7 (floating in water below) were flown to the deck of the recovery ship within 11 minutes of splashdown. MR-3 was the United States first manned space mission. The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour, reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statute miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The suborbital mission lasted 15 minutes and 22 seconds.

blood star, Henricia oculata

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard, in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Friday, May 6, 2022. Maurer, Marshburn, Chari, and Barron are returning after 177 days in space as part of Expeditions 66 and 67 aboard the International Space Station.

Ultrasound on a Sandbar shark at the aquarium in Montpellier

Illustration of underwater scene with divers and submerged spacecraft. Underwater scenery illustration

Preparations for subglacial diving, ice diving in the frozen Black Sea, a rare phenomenon which last occured in 1977, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe

Bob Ballard Exploration

Snorkeller exploring YONGALA shipwreck, off Townsville. Queensland, Australia.

S92-32108 (May 1992) --- Payload specialist Albert Sacco Jr. uses a one-person life raft during emergency bailout training exercises in the Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Sacco is an alternate payload specialist for the United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) mission, scheduled for launch later this year.EDITORS NOTE: Sacco was later named as prime crew payload specialist for the USML-2 mission (STS-73), scheduled for 1995.

Benchof mackerel Fakarava in French Polynesia

JSC2000-02567 (21 March 2000) --- Astronaut Terrence W. (Terry) Wilcutt,STS-106 mission commander, empties water from his newly-deployed life raft during a simulation of an emergency bailout exercise. The water survival trainingroutinely takes place in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

A whale shark (Rhincodon types) researcher is getting ready to take a biopsy sample. These biopsy samples can tell science a lot about whale sharks. THese sharks are the biggest fish in the world but there's still a lot that remains unknown about them.

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