Underwater Research and Exploration

Divers engaging in marine research, filming wildlife, and studying aquatic life in different underwater environments, showcasing technology and nature.

diver scuba diving around the coral reef

Fiji, Cameramen use latest in high-tech, mixed-gas rebreather technology to film marine wildlife in Pacific Ocean

Researcher trying to remove some parasites from a Sicklefin Mantas (Mobula tarapacana), Ambrosio dive site, Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean

Diver and Amphipod (Acanthogammarus victorii), Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian Federation, Eurasia

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

thistlegorm wreck and diver red sea date: 28.10.2008 ref: zb783_123030_0044 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Young man photographing coral undersea

Diver photographs the growth of a buoy under the water surface, Giens Peninsula dive site, Mediterranean, Porquerolles, Provence, Côte d'Azur, France

diver scuba diving around the coral reef

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Divers and ancient amphora, Mediterranean Sea, Italy, Europe

Diver lights up a tubes eponge with a floodlight, Caribbean.

MR Diver with video camera, Beqa Island off Southern Viti Levu, Fiji, South Pacific

reflection in diver's mask

After several months' break from deep diving following cyclone Chido, back in the mesophotic zone at a depth of 75 metres, at the foot of the second drop-off in September 2025, Mayotte

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

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

Diver exploring coral reef with measurement tool.

neutral buoyancy

Census of Pen shell in the Mediterranean of Monaco

Diver swims under clear transparent ice (1m thick) with minivan visible above. Lake Baikal, Russia, March 2012. Model released.

Divers controlling the growth of oysters, Indonesia, Asia

Lago submarine during a turning on the Coelacanth Comore

Nuytco mini submarine on coral reef with people looking at giant barrel sponge. Depth was Seaquarium, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. . Digital Photo (horizontal).

filming red sea jellyfish

Diver in the wreck of the Giannis D., Red Sea, Egypt, Africa

diver checking his dive computer in the Red Sed

Mexico, Cozumel, Reef monitoring system with Parque Nacional volunteers and staff

Diver respecting a level of decompression New Caledonia

Diving in apnea in constant weight Yucatan Mexico

Diver with underwater lamp looking at red soft coral (Dendronephthya), Red Sea, Sudan, Africa

Divers breathing pure oxygen after a deep wreck dive at the Deco Bar, Marshall Islands, Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean, Oceania

Blowing bubble-rings while diving the Kittiwake Shipwreck off Grand Cayman Island.

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

Cave Diver, Cave Diving

PHOTO DATE: 04-23-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool Topside SUBJECT: Astronaut Expedition 39/40 (Soyuz 38) astronaut Steve Swanson during ISS Maintenance EVAAT at the NBL.

Scuba diver under ice and ice formation, Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, northern Russia

Diver with underwater robot camera

Diver in a school of fish glass Maldives

Diver observing a Pen shell (Pina nobilis) in the Fig Tree Cave, Calanques National Park, June 2013, Mediterranean Sea

Mexico, Cozumel, Reef monitoring system with Parque Nacional volunteers and staff

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

Diver sucking a hole during the recovery of a Shipwreck

DeepSee deep diving submersible Cocos Island Costa Rica

thistlegorm wreck and divers red sea date: 28.10.2008 ref: zb783_123030_0042 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Diver examining underwater shipwreck

Coral researcher gathering gamete bundles from elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata). Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

Corallimorpharians

Inuit Andrew Taqtu investigates seastars, corals and anemones, Arctic

Exploring a sunken shipwreck under clear blue water

Professional off shore diver in training, drilling underwater, The Underwater Center, Fort Williams, Loch Linnhe, Scotland, Atlantic

Diver with metal detector searching for underwater treasure, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, Europe

Hawksbill Turtle Capture (Eretmochelys Imbricata) for annual monitoring, MarAlliance, Lighthouse Reef, Atoll, Belize (MR)

Diver and a large Barrel sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria) which filters organic material from the water column on a coral reef; Indonesia

Divers discovering archaeology objects

Underwater photographer shooting a stove pipe sponge (Aplysina archeri). Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

Dr. Bill Baker collects invertebrates, looking for chemical defense compounds, Antarctica

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A diver from Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, helps retrieve a spent shuttle booster in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. The booster, which was used during space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A on Feb. 24, will be transported to Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The shuttles two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered after every launch by Liberty Star and Freedom Star.The boosters impact the Atlantic about seven minutes after liftoff and the retrieval ships are stationed about 10 miles from the impact area at the time of splashdown. After the spent segments are processed, they will be transported to Utah, where they will be refurbished and stored, if needed.

Marine biologist cleaning sea algae from Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) at coral farm underwater, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Photographers mate First Class (PH1) Greg Slater practices with the Nikonos RS underwater camera during the underwater photographic teams training off the coast. Base: Key West State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

diver sits on the ocean floor at Banda Sea / Indonesia

Woman diver by sea anemone with torch light at seabed

Simulated specimen collecting for the aquarium fish trade, demonstrating the use of cyanide to stun fish which kills coral reefs as a side effect, Philippines

Date: 12-13-13Location: NBL, Pool TopsideSubject: Soyuz 45 crew members, Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during ISS EVA Maintenance 1 - training at the NBL

Scuba diver and jellyfish

Scuba diver exploring the ocean floor in the Maldives

Space Entry Module of International Space Station - Hydrolab: Neutral Buoyancy Training Module for Space teams, Zvezdniy Gorodok, Russia

S93-33102 (5 Apr 1993) --- Wearing a training version of Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), astronaut Thomas D. Akers uses the giant pool of the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) to rehearse for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair mission. Standing on a mobile foot restraint connected to the Shuttle's robot arm, Akers works with a full-scale training version of the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC). The current WF/PC on the HST will be replaced with WF/PC-2. The giant box is a stowage area for both WF/PC facilities. Out of frame is astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, who will join Akers in STS-61 EVA. Several SCUBA-equipped divers assist in the rehearsal. A total of five extravehicular activity (EVA) sessions will be conducted during the scheduled December mission of the Endeavour.

Snorkeling through Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), W. Australia, mildly toxic

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

BRUV (Baited remote underwater video) monitoring research of large marine fish, sharks, rays and turtles. MarAlliance. Lighthouse Reef, Atoll. Belize. Central America

scuba diver and long-spined anglerfish, lophius piscatorius, marettimo island, small mountainous island of egadi group, on the north western coast of sicily, italy date: 23.07.08 ref: zb777_117146_0021 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Scuba diver in cavern.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At left, a manipulator arm on a one-man submarine demonstrates its ability to cut tangled parachute riser lines and place a Diver Operator Plug (top right) inside a mock solid rocket booster nozzle (center). Known as DeepWorker 2000, the sub is being tested on its ability to duplicate the sometimes hazardous job United Space Alliance (USA) divers perform to recover the expended boosters in the ocean after a launch. The boosters splash down in an impact area about 140 miles east of Jacksonville and after recovery are towed back to KSC for refurbishment by the specially rigged recovery ships. DeepWorker 2000 will be used in a demonstration during retrieval operations after the upcoming STS-101 launch. The submarine pilot will demonstrate capabilities to cut tangled parachute riser lines using a manipulator arm and attach the DOP to extract water and provide flotation for the booster. DeepWorker 2000 was built by Nuytco Research Ltd., North Vancouver, British

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the water for a practice dive in the ocean offshore from Key Largo is astronaut John Herrington. He is commander of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 6 (NEEMO-6) mission team. The others are Nick Patrick, Doug Wheelock, and Tara Ruttley, a biomedical engineer. The NEEMO-6 mission involves exposing an astronaut/scientist crew to a real mission experience in an extreme environment - the NOAA undersea station Aquarius - to prepare for future space flight. Spacewalk-like diving excursions and field-tests on a variety of biomedical equipment are designed to help astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. To prepare for their 10-day stay, the team had dive training twice a day at the Life Support Buoy, anchored above Aquarius.

A 12-inch long armored Bothriolepis glides along the bottom of a flooded plain 380 million years ago during the Late Devonian

USA, California, Diver examining Tunicate Salp chain (Cyclosalpa affinis) swimming in Pacific Ocean

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

Rebreather divers looking for small creatures inside a Venus seafan (Gorgonia flabellum) Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea, Egypt

Delta Submersible

Scuba diver presenting some underwater treasure, Russian coins from the era of Empress Ekaterina II., Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, Europe

Gas bubbles coming up while scuba diver is working. CNR volcanology research. Aeolian Islands. Sicily. Italy. (Photo by: Giorgio Mesturini/REDA&CO/UIG)

Seaweed and LightA type of seaweed called Sargassum, common in the Sargasso Sea, floats by an instrument deployed here on July 26, 2014, as part of NASA's SABOR experiment. Scientists from the City College of New York use the data to study the way light becomes polarized in various conditions both above and below the surface of the ocean. NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain. Read more: http://1.usa.gov/WWRVzj

Whale shark Rhincodontypus with diver filming satellite tag (world’s first tagging of a Whale shark)

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...

Underground divers in the exsurgence of Font Estramar / Fontaine de Salses, Pyrenees-Orientales, France

Presenter Mike De Gruy and Cameraman Bob Cranston on BBC filming assignment for 'Live From The Abyss' Cocos Island 2003

PHOTO DATE: 04-10-09LOCATION: NBL - Pool Topside and Control RoomSUBJECT: STS-129 crew members Michael Foreman and Robert Satcher during STS-129 ULF3 EVA 1 92027 training. Photograph preparations, getting in suit, working with suit techs, being lowered into water, other crew members in control room

Underwater Filmmaker Using Closed-Circuit Rebreather

Vintage Photograph. Diver exploring the ocean floor, uncovering marine treasures.

INDO Sulawesi woman diver w/ flashlight swims to table coral D1829 surface visible bkgd

A research diver from the MOC Marine Institute glues broken coral back together at Molokini Marine Preserve off the island of Maui, Hawaii. The coral ...

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

A diver collects wild oysters in the murky depths of the Chesapeake bay, Wittman, Maryland.

Underground diver in the Buèges spring, Hérault, France

Research divers conduct long-term experiment underwater, Antarctica

Marine biologist performing a biopsy on a large Pen shell (Pinna nobilis), in the Thau Lagoon (summer 2020).

Prototype two-man personal submarine traveling underwater, Lake Tahoe, California, USA

Scuba diver looking at a Sponge (Porifera), Philippines, Asia

Cave Diver w/ Mastodon Bones, Mammoth Spring, FL, World's largest Artesian Spring

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